# Fuck the Baby Boomers **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 16, 2011, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-baby-boomers/589212 "2011-07-16T03:00:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 20
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2011, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-baby-boomers/589212/381 "2011-08-05T03:42:43Z")
[![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsm9fdWJszQ) We young uns have a new hep sound. ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2011, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-baby-boomers/589212/382 "2011-08-05T03:51:39Z")
> [@Spoke](#): > > Ah, so then it **wasn’t** the baby boomers who were marching? Cool, then maybe you can stop congratulating yourselves. 😛 We all can take credit. That is congratulations for all who were involved. ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2011, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-baby-boomers/589212/383 "2011-08-05T03:56:47Z")
Why get angry at all the boomers. During Clinton’s term we balanced the budget and had surpluses for the future. Some spoiled rich kid became president and fucked it all up. But the job was done once. Get the stupid conservatives back in the homes where they can get steady electroshock therapy. Let the adults fix it again. ---
**Author:** ![Bosstrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Bosstrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstrain)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2011, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-baby-boomers/589212/384 "2011-08-05T13:55:53Z")
> [@E-Sabbath](#): > > [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsm9fdWJszQ](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsm9fdWJszQ) > We young uns have a new hep sound. Dammit! Who resurrected Elvis?!? Tell the truth, it was one of you, I just know it. All right, fine, I’ll just have to get Doc Brown, go back in time, and make sure his parents never meet…you leave me no choice! ---
**Author:** ![Triskadecamus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b19c9b/32.png) [@Triskadecamus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Triskadecamus)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2011, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-baby-boomers/589212/385 "2011-08-05T14:12:15Z")
> [@Bosstrain](#): > > Oh no you didn’t…OH NO YOU DIDN’T…(paces to and fro)…OH NO YOU DIDN’T! > > Don’t get me started on that CRAP! You are responsible for this: [sixties songs](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfzjGSRaBE4), I even think one of the guys in the second song is falling asleep, even you all thought it was crap. :smack: Excuse me, while I kiss the sky. ---
**Author:** ![Bosstrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Bosstrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstrain)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2011, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-baby-boomers/589212/386 "2011-08-05T18:54:57Z")
> [@Triskadecamus](#): > > Excuse me, while I kiss the sky. So sorry, I forgot to add a disclaimer: the great Jimi Hendrix is remiss from the horridness that is the 60’s music, and one song by the Beatles: [Revolution](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrkwgTBrW78). You have full permission from me to burn everything else though. From the pictures in the video, it’s quite obvious that Paul has always looked like a total [douchebag](http://comedians.jokes.com/denis-leary/videos/uncensored---denis-leary---douchebags-song/)…:smack: ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2011, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-baby-boomers/589212/387 "2011-08-05T19:23:21Z")
> [@Bosstrain](#): > > So sorry, I forgot to add a disclaimer…and one song by the Beatles: [Revolution](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrkwgTBrW78). Yes, an anti-(counter-?) revolutionary song by multimillionaires always hits the spot. Down with Barack Oboomer! ---
**Author:** ![Peremensoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@Peremensoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peremensoe)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2011, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-baby-boomers/589212/388 "2011-08-11T18:29:33Z")
> [@Bosstrain](#): > > So sorry, I forgot to add a disclaimer: the great Jimi Hendrix is **remiss** from the horridness that is the 60’s music… I do not think that word means what you think it means. ---
**Author:** ![Bosstrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Bosstrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstrain)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2011, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-baby-boomers/589212/389 "2011-08-11T20:09:09Z")
> [@spark240](#): > > I do not think that word means what you think it means. Remiss means to abstain from something, Jimi was **remiss** in the horridness, meaning he did not partake of it nor add to it. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2011, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-baby-boomers/589212/390 "2011-08-12T02:06:26Z")
> [@jlzania](#): > > What can I say, I’ve was an English major. You’ve was? What college? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2011, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-baby-boomers/589212/391 "2011-08-12T02:12:46Z")
By God, sir, there is some shit up with which I will not put! ---
**Author:** ![Damuri\_Ajashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/898d66/32.png) [@Damuri\_Ajashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Damuri_Ajashi)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2011, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-baby-boomers/589212/392 "2011-08-12T14:15:22Z")
> [@gonzomax](#): > > Why get angry at all the boomers. During Clinton’s term we balanced the budget and had surpluses for the future. Some spoiled rich kid became president and fucked it all up. But the job was done once. Get the stupid conservatives back in the homes where they can get steady electroshock therapy. Let the adults fix it again. Well thats the point. How the fuck did all the boomers turn into Dick Cheney instead of Bill Clinton, which seemed to be the trajectory they were on before they got money and power. ---
**Author:** ![JoelUpchurch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f05b48/32.png) [@JoelUpchurch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoelUpchurch)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2011, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-baby-boomers/589212/393 "2011-08-12T18:49:52Z")
> [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](#): > > In my own humble opinion, the biggest culprit is overpopulation in this country and elsewhere. I don’t mean in the sense that there’s an objective “correct” population limit, although a sustainable level would be optimal. What is a particularly American problem is that we don’t deal very effectively with a high population. Overpopulation in this country means that people have to seek housing farther and farther way from work, school, and amenities. If you check the fertility statistics for the United States we have been below zero population growth since the seventies. According to the last census 3/4 of the population increase since 2000 was due to immigrants and their children. It you need to control population, then you to need to control immigration. What you are describing isn’t overpopulation, it is bad planning and bad zoning when you build a suburb with no jobs around it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-baby-boomers/589212.md?page=19)