Precisely when we turned 30. We realized we had to trust ourselves.
I’m not part of anything other than that I happened to have been born in a certain year. You know what? We didn’t ask to have so many siblings, or to grow up out in the burbs that were so attractive to our parents in the postwar era. Nor am I part of America’s anti-urbanist trend, which goes all the way back to Thomas Jefferson, and which also has been a huge factor in the decentralization of our built environment–and such developments as the dismantling of public transit systems during that period.
The baby boom included pot smokers, hippies, and left wing activists–but it also included Young Republicans and the kids who publicly burned their Beatles records in the aftermath of John Lennon’s statements about Jesus and Christianity.
No, you’ve lost sight of the fact that taxation is not theft, but a necessary component of any civil society. Moreover, the wealthy have a greater stake by definition, and so should be called on to pay more. I agree with you that waste of tax revenue is tantamount to malfeasance–but I also recognize that I can’t expect every federal expenditure to benefit me directly, or even necessarily to be something I would approve of. So a bridge in Alaska, to pick one at random, is not wasting my tax dollars–provided the bridge does go somewhere.
Kindly inform us what you’ve done to prevent people from shopping at Wal-Mart? What have you done to protect American jobs and and discourage corporations from moving the jobs off shore? More importantly, have you voted to be led and represented by men and women who oppose this race to the bottom?
Having us must have been one of the errors.
How selfish to want health care guaranteed for everyone. How evil of us to be concerned about Medicare, when everyone knows that in its absence the insurance rates for seniors would be ruinous for all but multimillionaires.
In this country we spend a greater share of our GDP on health care, but nowhere else in the industrialized world do so many people go without access to routine health care. One factor in the other countries’ ability to do more with less is that poor people don’t have to wait until the rupture an internal organ or a stroke, and then go to the ER–for which you and I end up paying. “Obamacare”, though better than nothing, is a joke. Thanks to the conservatives, we couldn’t get a bill passed without providing room at the trough for insurance companies and other third party interests.
Many of us, including myself, don’t support globalization at the expense of American jobs. But you don’t want to know that; you just say we’d be far less obnoxious if there weren’t so many of us.
Is there anyone else you want gone because there are so many of them? How about those Chinese and Indians–well over a billion in each country. And now they’re buying cars and driving up the price of petroleum, and thereby stealing your lunch from before your very nose. So it’s really wrong of them to be so numerous, isn’t it? I hope I don’t sound dismissive of prejudice based on race, gender, or sexual orientation, because that’s not my intention. But as a fifty-something straight white American male I think I finally understand how it feels to be the target of ill-will just because of something that was really just an accident of birth. I’m learning how it feels to be blamed directly for things which I might or might not have actually done, just because it seems perfectly fine to say all “those” people in reference to us–because you know how “those” people are and what they do.
What a raging great twit.
The means to our end? Of course it is, and to yours also. What else would be the function of government?
Down with Barack Oboomer!
“Hey, hey, LBJ, how many health care programs did you institute today?”
Obama is arguably an Xer. This generation is often defined as beginning with people born in the mid 1960s, but William Strauss and Neil Howe define the “13th Generation” (their term for Generation X) as including birth years 1961-1981.
Oh man.
[[[[ hugs ]]]]
Again proving that, for all of it’s faults, the Boomer generation had a better education…
“The 51 million members of Generation X, born between 1965 and 1976”
“Most sources cite a start (to generation X) in the mid 1960s”
“Generation X is a term used to describe a group of people born from 1964 to the mid or late 1970s in the United States and Canada.”
Oboomer was born in '61, therefore he’s a full-fledged Baby Boomer. If he’d been born three years later he’d be cool, but his date of birth doesn’t lie.
He’s evil.
Down with Oboomer!!!
As evidenced, apparently, by your incorrect use of the word “it’s”.
It’s= It is
Its= possessive
You were saying?
Calm down, here, have a Coke.
It does appear to have somthinorother to do with your characteristics as a human being, however.
Doors, speaking as a fellow member of Generation X, please get the fuck out of my generation.
You mean you came into this thread, on Page 5, just to say this?
If you’d bothered to read your second cite in its entirety, you’d see it says almost exactly what I said in my earlier post.
Of course it does, because when you’re fifty you look at things differently compared to when you were thirty. That’s nothing new.
Maybe. I dunno, my political and social views are largely what they were when I was twenty. But I’m a stubborn sumbitch, and that may be all of it right there.
And a 50-year old born in 1940 will look at things very differently from a 50-year-old born in 1960 will look at things very differently from a 50-year-old born in 1980.
I think its certainly fair to say that a fifty year old person born in 1940 might have some unique perspectives. Pretty safe ground, there.
For a group devoted to fighting ignorance, y’all don’t seem too concerned about flaming overgeneralizations.
Yup, I would have to agree that we lost it.
Sorry about your loss, ChefGuy.