The Most Selfish Generation

[Aeson]

Baby-boomers are also responsible for the one time that Drake and Oerdin agree.

[Tupac Shakur]

Oerdin's ability to turn absolutely anything into supporting evidence for his knee-jerk anti-Republican worldview is terrifyingly amazing.

[Dinner]

Any talk about baby boomers would be incomplete without mentioning they almost exclusively make up all the members of one of the most retarded fake "movements" in history.

[Tupac Shakur]

And that "fake movement" claims to "oppose" a "president" that is "also" a Baby Boomer. It's almost unreal how fiendishly "clever" it is!

[Dinner]

It's also hilarious that the tea baggers declared the government can do nothing right, their current idol Rick Perry cut the Texas state forest service's fire fighting budget by 75%, and now Texas is facing the worst wild fires in its history but doesn't have the men or equipment to put them out. Now they're begging the big bad Federal government to come bail them out of the problem their short sightedness created. That's Texas and the tea bagging baby boomers all in a nut shell.

[a.kitman]

uhmm i dont know i kinda want my parents to spend there money on themselfs.

[MrFun]

It's a shame that Oerdin and Drake hate their parents.

[Dinner]

Not my parents specifically but their generation in general.

[MOBIUS]

Beats me why any of you should be expecting a handout from your parents - shame on you if you do!

[MikeH]

Indeed. I think my parents should enjoy their hard earned money in their retirement. I'm making my own money.

[dannubis]

Indeed. I think my parents should enjoy their hard earned money in their retirement. I'm making my own money.

This is not what this discusison is about. It is abaout the collective failure of an entire generation to come up with a durable solution. Is there any aspect they didn't royally screw up ?

Environment: check
Social (population pyramid imbalance): check
Financial (sure they built the "welfare state", but the bills are for us to pay): double check

And now of course, we have to pay for their retirement plans but when we retire we will have to take care for ourselves.

I love my parents but they were part of the most self centered ****ed up generation the world has ever seen.

[MikeH]

We're little better. And in the same context we'd have been just as bad.

You can't jointly blame them for environment, and for not reproducing enough. Having more kids would have been even more devastating to the environment. And overpopulation is a massive issue.

[Dinner]

This is not what this discusison is about. It is abaout the collective failure of an entire generation to come up with a durable solution. Is there any aspect they didn't royally screw up ?

Environment: check
Social (population pyramid imbalance): check
Financial (sure they built the "welfare state", but the bills are for us to pay): double check

And now of course, we have to pay for their retirement plans but when we retire we will have to take care for ourselves.

I love my parents but they were part of the most self centered ****ed up generation the world has ever seen.

Last I checked, at least in this country, it was my grandparent's generation which created the welfare system from Social Security, to medicare, to food stamps, to actual welfare. The 1930's and 1940's generation was all about hard work, savings, thrift, and sacrifice for the greater good while the baby boomers were and are nothing more then self centered brats who used the system for maximum personal benefit, greedily refused to pay the necessary taxes to support the system (no matter if it was education, health care, welfare, or anything else), and simply loaded the country up on debt which we now have to pay because they were to lazy and cheap to pay for the benefits they used. While our grandparents were all about hard work, savings, and working for the common good the baby boomers have been all about debt, egotism, and selfishness with no regard for the public good. The inherited a pretty damn good hand of cards, benefited greatly from it, and then squandered it all giving the rest of us the finger.

[Docfeelgood]

It's also hilarious that the tea baggers declared the government can do nothing right, their current idol Rick Perry cut the Texas state forest service's fire fighting budget by 75%, and now Texas is facing the worst wild fires in its history but doesn't have the men or equipment to put them out. Now they're begging the big bad Federal government to come bail them out of the problem their short sightedness created. That's Texas and the tea bagging baby boomers all in a nut shell.

[OneFootInTheGrave]

this generation is even worse... they have the excuse of not knowing what they were doing, while we are digging the grave for our successors with full knowledge