Baby Boomers look for new way to **** America

[Drake Tungsten]

The thread title is a statement of fact; the poll title is the call to arms. I hope you have a warm coat...

[Dauphin]

Did our generation create social security? No, we're the one that paid for a previous generation.

The generation before you were relatively small in numbers by the time they came to cash in. The generation following you isn't so lucky.

[Supr49er]

Then you'll just have to work harder and make more money.
We Boomers do have a certain lifestyle to maintain, you know.

[Dauphin]

I'll just inherit my parents' moolah, so I don't care what you other folks get up to.

[Drake Tungsten]

Based on some back of the envelope calculations (assume 42 million American baby boomers, grant them each a 3x3 piece of ice floe), we need to find a 378 million square foot ice sheet to break off and deposit Baby Boomers onto. Time to inspect Greenland on Google Earth now...

[Drake Tungsten]

God, if only we had decided to do this in 2005. Canada had a perfect ice floe candidate...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayles_Ice_Shelf

[Aeson]

Global Warming is obviously just the boomers' attempt to pre-empt you on this one Drake

[Drake Tungsten]

The Wilkins Ice Shelf seems to be our best bet.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilkins_Ice_Shelf

Will be more expensive to ship the Boomers to the Antarctic, though. Even now, at the end, the Boomers prove to be an unnecessarily expensive drag on society...

[KrazyHorse]

Did our generation create social security? No, we're the one that paid for a previous generation.

You may have paid for a previous generation...but you guys are going to pull far more out of the system than you put in, under current benefit guidelines.

And if you'd wanted a viable social security ponzi scheme you should have had more children.

[KrazyHorse]

My only hope for a good retirement lies in the fact that the Boomer-induced economic collapse has pushed equity values so low that I should be able to make a solid return over the next three decades. I feel bad for all the early Gen Xers who just saw their 401ks wiped out...

Unfortunately this isn't really true. We're close to normal levels of trailing 10 year earnings vs price.

I am so ****ing pissed I didn't have any money. I actually called my bank in early to mid march (right before the bottom) but the most they'd offer me was 15k (at 9.5%, *******s....with perfect credit)

If I'd owned a house I would have ****ing mortgaged it to the hilt (assuming I could have gotten financing).

[KrazyHorse]

Then you'll just have to work harder and make more money.
We Boomers do have a certain lifestyle to maintain, you know.

I wonder at what point my fellow late GenXers will realize that we really wouldn't miss our parents that much....I promise it'll only hurt for a minute.

[Drake Tungsten]

Unfortunately this isn't really true. We're close to normal levels of trailing 10 year earnings vs price.

****. Don't tell me this ****. I need some hope, no matter how ridiculous...

[SlowwHand]

Push if you're ready to get knocked on your ass.

[Drake Tungsten]

What do you think you're going to do to me, Gramps? Thanks to that insolence, you're now first to go on the ice...

[notyoueither]

God, if only we had decided to do this in 2005. Canada had a perfect ice floe candidate...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayles_Ice_Shelf

Make blaming them for climate change part of the campaign and drop them on what used to be an ice shelf by helicopter.

That way you'll get the greens on board with your programme.