23/6: We're so sick of you, please die.

I hate seeing this kind of shit on Huffington Post. I hope Arianna tosses the 23/6 crew out on their ears.

"will be re-shaping the face of retirement."

Damn right! We'll be taking trillions out of our 401ks and living our last years in an orgy of hedonistic pleasures. Of course your investments won't do as well since so many of our stocks will be sold that a distinct and continuing downward pressure will result from our sales. Many of us didn't fall into the home equity cash out boondoggle and we kept our equity intact. So we'll also be taking out reverse mortgages and further funding our opulent lifestyles while many thirty and forty somethings will still be underwater in their mortgages. Just when the housing disaster turns around, millions of our homes will come on the market as we move into upscale retirement villages. This will insure that home prices don't rise too fast in the future. Our drugs and health care will be paid by the toil of millions of younger people who will be working for meager hourly wages. All of the high paying jobs that we held will have been outsourced to India. Our Social Security though stolen by Reagan and Bush II will be paid one way or the other. Our voting block of 80,000,000 will insure that no politician will dare cross us. Remember, we're old, we don't have anything to do on election day but vote. The turnout percentage of the elderly is the highest of any age demographic. You'll be working in a post Bush world. The National Debt that will be yours will be $10,000,000,000,000 when he leaves office. The unfunded liabilities he leaves behind will be three times that amount. So, we've got ours and we intend to spend it. All you've got is Bush's IOUs. Enjoy!

Every generation brings something to the table. The hostility in this post is so unnecessary. Snark is rather shallow, in the final analysis.

We can thank the Greatest Generation for so many things that brought greatness to this country—I have ntohing to add to what Tom Brokaw has to say. We can thank the Boomers, too, for fueling the Civil Rights movement of the 60s, the women's and gay rights movements of the 70s, and bringing the horrors of war closer to home so we all would understand. It's too bad we seem to have forgotten that lesson. Perhaps if the current Baby Boomers in the Bush Administration had served, we'd have a different foreign policy picture.

By the way–the years for Baby Boomers are incorrect in this post.

fellow boomers:
a word of advice:
keep quiet. the youngah people don't want to hear the hard luck stories or the anecdotes about the fun times you had with the Beatles, AABBA, the Chicago Seven, or how you got naked at Woodstock. Or didn't, because it was just too yucky.

be silent and mysterious, and if you must BRAG that you saw the Beatles with your mother when you were 9, just let it drop into the conversation as an aside, and then ask the gen x,.y, u, and xxx ers about their lives.

be interested. they want to TELL you stuff.

and who knows? maybe you'll learn something.

This is a great thread. It takes me back to conversations with my Dad, 35 or 40 years ago. Some of the specifics have changed, but the tone is the same. Now, I'm on the other side of that pointed finger.

Work for change. And, if you don't like the way your thoughtless boomer parents raised you, do better by your kids. I wonder what letter the social scientists and advertisers will slap on them.

12/28/07
4:40pm
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I'm a Boomer and looks like I will need the Social Security income since I can't get a lawyer to help me with all of my legal problems.
But I don't feel guilty because Boomers will not be the cause of the Social Security bankruptcy. Surely we all know that. Anybody need a list of the causes?

This article by 23/6 was a real winner. What else is in store for the reader? "Cripples, we are tired of hearing about you. Just die!" "Cancer victims, why don't you shut up and die!"
"Jews, we're so tired about your stupid Holocaust!"

I never had kids. Mainly it was because I can't stand kids, with all their ungrateful complaints.
Not that such behavior is unusual : the newer generation always has issues with their parents. But, having forgone the pleasure of the "patter of little feet", why should I have to hear the rants of other people's brats ! Hey ! genXers, the world will soon be yours ; it's up to you to save it. I'm willing to bet that you aren't smart enough to do that, even though you have a lot more time in which to do it!

"Greatest generation" my tukas. The greatest generation was the first shipment of slaves brought over to work for your granddaddy for nothin.

Okay you gen X'ers and Y'ers need some definition in your minds - instead of soundbites from the history channel on Timothy Leary.
The most definitive recent study of US generational cohorts was done by Schuman and Scott (1989) in 1985 in which a broad sample of adults of all ages were asked, "What world events over the past 50 years were especially important to them?"[2]. Today the following descriptors are frequently used for these cohorts:

Pre 'World War II cohort' (born from 1922 to 1927)
Memorable events: men leaving to go to war and many not returning, the personal experience of the war, women working in factories, focus on defeating a common enemy
Key characteristics: the nobility of sacrifice for the common good, patriotism, team player
World War II cohort (born from 1928 to 1945)
Memorable events: sustained economic growth, social tranquility, The Cold War, McCarthyism
Key characteristics: conformity, conservatism, traditional family values
Baby Boomer cohort #1 (born from 1946 to 1954)
Memorable events: assassinations of JFK, Robert Kennedy, and Martin Luther King, political unrest, walk on the moon, Vietnam War, anti-war protests, social experimentation, sexual freedom, civil rights movement, environmental movement, women's movement, protests and riots, experimentation with various intoxicating recreational substances
Key characteristics: experimental, individualism, free spirited, social cause oriented
Baby Boomer cohort #2 (born from 1955 to 1964)
Memorable events: Watergate, Nixon resigns, the cold war, the oil embargo, raging inflation, gasoline shortages
Key characteristics: less optimistic, distrust of government, general cynicism
Generation X cohort (born from 1965 to 1979)
Memorable events: Challenger explosion, Iran-Contra, social malaise, Reaganomics, AIDS, safe sex, single parent families
Key characteristics: quest for emotional security, independent, informality, entrepreneurial
Generation Y cohort also called N Generation (born from 1980 to 2001)
Memorable events: rise of the internet, September 11 attacks, cultural diversity, 2 wars in Iraq
Key characteristics: quest for physical security and safety, patriotism, heightened fears, acceptance of change, technically savvy, environmental issues
All boomers are not assholes.
The generation you complain about is the one that raised you,forming those little hateful opinions you all seem to possess.

oh and the writer of this article with the comment 'good luck you old hippies'...you're an idiot.

The baby boomers who have the chance to influence trade policy these past decades has done a terrible disservice to the younger generations. I don't believe one bit that the younger generations are just lazy oafs living behind computer games (though some may and who has the right to blame them when a walmart job is their best prospect for the future). They have a lot of damage done to the economy and jobs by keeping horrible politicians in office for decades.
Young people throw the free trade advocates in political office out and the country will once again be what it should be for you. Don't blame all baby boomers (I am from the trailing edge cusp of the category) as I know plenty who have worked hard their whole life and still cannot see retirement as their parents could.
According to the more truthful cost-of-living and wages analysis of history, if the young people had the opportunity the baby boomers (not all) had, $14/hr would be the wages that would be standard (on average). I made $6/hr doing painting, construction and cutting lawns in the 70's and those were just side jobs. I bought my first used car with 60,000 miles on it for $800 bucks and it was a cool car...good luck today.

First I would like to know who has penned this article. It is apparent that this was only to promote anger. As far as medicare is concerned it is a very good program. The problem is that the repugs would like nothing better than to destroy it because it pays fair wages to doctors. Now they are trying to cut payments to doctors who will start to drop patients so they can keep the office open. Most doctors prefer medicare because they pay on time without all the b.s. that HMO's and the like gives the Dr.'s office which brings the cost up. A single payer system is the only way to go since everyone should have health care it should not only be for the ones that can afford it.
As far as SS and Medicare is concerned if the Government really was concerned about these programs and the American people they would stop robbing from them and invest in the programs that have worked for years. These programs have saved lives.

There will be few retirements. The current financial situation and the markets are being primed for the largest theft of assets in the history of the planet...the 401(k)s and pension funds of the baby boomers. And with Social Security on life support it will be dark days indeed.

But what the heck? A large portion of you voted for Dubya so it's just as well I suppose.