The Most Selfish Generation

[Hauldren Collider]

Yes, this is typical of the younger generation. Place blame on others and don't take responsibility for anything. And now are concerned that their parents won't be leaving them as much money when they die. Boo Hoo. Please go ahead and complain and be prepared for your children to hold you in worse contempt. It will be fitting justice.

You are projecting. This is actually what Baby Boomers do.

You boomers ****ed around with every narcotic on the planet and now champion the crackdown on pot. Boomers lost Vietnam because they were spoiled little ****s who couldn't fight gooks wearing flip flops despite having helicopters and napalm. You ran up debts on massive social programs that no one in their right mind could possibly believe were sustainable. Need I say more?

[Tuberski]

Thank God, I'm not a baby boomer and neither are my parents.

ACK!

[Patroklos]

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.

1.) No they don't, since a significant amount of the Tea Party is actually the "greatest generation" or youth.

2.) Baby Boomers are the dominate generation right now, they make up the significant portion of every significant movement right now.

3.) The above was obvious, you are retarded.

[MOBIUS]

Oh, I'm lucky, but when I hear about people who have to refuse to inherit anything from their parents because the parents have taken out loans on their villa twice the value and used it on themselves, so that the kids get a debt infested inheritance, I find that annoyingly selfish of them. The politicians have done fairly well in the loan department, that's true, but that has more to do with all the oil than anything else. We didn' get rid of the huge public debt before in the 90s, when the oil money really began to flow in.

It's not just the oil though, but basic fiscal responsibility. My country also benefitted from the oil money, but whereas you squared away your debts, we wanked our money away and are in a worse state than before the oil was discovered - especially seeing as we've already hit our 'peak' and now have to import again...

[MOBIUS]

Or just do a mass default now and start from scratch - it would balance the books as it would be the older wealthier generation that would suffer losing all that money...

[Nikolai]

Actually, you come from one of the few countries in the world whose politicians haven't hollowed out with catastrophic debt - you should consider yourself lucky!

Oh, I'm lucky, but when I hear about people who have to refuse to inherit anything from their parents because the parents have taken out loans on their villa twice the value and used it on themselves, so that the kids get a debt infested inheritance, I find that annoyingly selfish of them. The politicians have done fairly well in the loan department, that's true, but that has more to do with all the oil than anything else. We didn' get rid of the huge public debt before in the 90s, when the oil money really began to flow in.

[Jon Miller]

It wouldn't need to be if the older, wealthier generation would just agree to pay more.

JM

[MikeH]

We might not have a choice, we might have to default in many cases.

[Jon Miller]

The debt is mostly to baby boomers, we should just refuse to pay it.

JM

[MOBIUS]

I find it selfish, but it's not a surprise, the baby boomers have had it all and got spoiled. I still haven't met many of them that feel much responsibility for the next generation. In the old days, the previous generation did all they could to make life easier for the next, that seemingly died with the baby boomers. I know of disturbingly many who take out loans and live off them as there were no tomorrow, which means their heir either will have to renounce all their parents owned, or get into huge financial trouble by taking the loan with the rest.

Of course, not all of them is like that, but I'm glad my parents is not of that generation...

Actually, you come from one of the few countries in the world whose politicians haven't hollowed out with catastrophic debt - you should consider yourself lucky!

[rah]

Wait, are they the "anti-war" hippie left or the Reagan/Tea Party right? Now I'm just confused.

Both. Most generations start on the left and end up on the right as they get older.

[rah]

And I disagree with Rah, we're all basically the same. Slightly different experiences but we're vastly more similar than we are different.

I will agree that we're more similar than different. but where's the fun in that.

[Jaguar]

The life of the average baby boomer: Despite being pampered by their parents and given every advantage in the world by their hard working parents who worked to break the depression and defeat the Axis in WW2 they were arrogant rotten little ****** as kids. Their moms stayed home to watch them and make sure they always had healthy meals to eat while their dads worked hard to support the whole family and even worked over time so their ungrateful little spawn could go to summer camps & be taken on great family vacations. The government wisely taxed the wealthy to insure they baby boomers received the best educations money could buy but what did these little bastards do in return?

They sat around smoking pot and protesting when the government actually asked them to do anything in return, they had kids out of wed lock and even when they did get married they usually got divorced in short order because these arrogant self centered ****** believed EVERYTHING was about themselves. When their parents got old rather then looking after them they promptly tossed them into old folks homes to be forgotten, they demanded ever more tax cuts for themselves thus ****ing their kids over with rotten under funded schools because, once again, they never cared about anyone but themselves. They declared bankruptcy in record numbers and never saved much of anything (while their parents dutiful saved and sacrificed for the common good) yet the endlessly demand ever more handouts from the government for themselves while SCREAMING at the top of their lungs that black people, brown people, or worst of all poor people should get any type of hand up as well. Now, after loading the country up with massive debt these douche bags won't even help their children out by leaving them a tiny inheritence because they want to die as they lived; selfish & not caring about anyone else.

The most vile, self centered, egotistical pieces of **** ever. That's the baby boomers. BTW these dumb asses make up virtually the entire Tea Party movement (The one's holding the "keep government out of my medicare"[medicare is a government program] and spreading the conspiracy theory that Obama is a secret muslim illegal alien terrorist sleeper agent [no really Fox was spreading that crap] because they can no longer publicly say they just hate black people).

Wait, are they the "anti-war" hippie left or the Reagan/Tea Party right? Now I'm just confused.

[MikeH]

And I disagree with Rah, we're all basically the same. Slightly different experiences but we're vastly more similar than we are different.

[MikeH]

humans are selfish, there's no way we'd have behaved differently in their shoes with the same knowledge they had.