(10-26-2016 11:21 AM)boroeagle2 Wrote:  Boomers also complain about how Gen Xers and Millenials are...Yall are our parents and/or grandparents! You helped make us how we are! LOL

I only complain about other people's kids. Mine turned out great. She did not get participation trophies and she had to actually do work to get an allowance. I never bought her a car or allowed fcking video games in the house. She was allowed to drive the POS in the driveway provided she worked to put gas in it. I was a total ass most of the time..on purpose. She thanks me for it now.

(10-26-2016 11:43 AM)john01992 Wrote:  

(10-26-2016 11:40 AM)Fo Shizzle Wrote:  

(10-26-2016 11:09 AM)john01992 Wrote:  

(10-26-2016 11:03 AM)Lord Stanley Wrote:  That's a misleading title. Baby Boomer politicians have been a disaster for America.

The baby boomers voted for them and benefited the most from the policies.

even on a local level you can see it. they vote against schools to save money on property taxes even though a strong school system raises property value

Their entire mentality is "I got mine so why should you get yours?"

Speaking only for myself...."I worked hard for mine...its your turn now.":coffee3:

LOL you support the very policies that have ****ed over the millenials.

While the Boomers may have helped cause the situation we are in. The millennials aren't much better. I'm unfortunately a part of that millennial group.

Millennials are too needy and self centered. Especially the liberal ones.

(10-26-2016 11:03 AM)Lord Stanley Wrote:  That's a misleading title. Baby Boomer politicians have been a disaster for America.

Beat me to it. Both parties are to blame. We have the Stupid party and the Evil party. Not much to choose from so how do we Baby Boomers get the blame for this mess.

And yet, Progressives want to make things worst. We're doomed I say.

(10-26-2016 11:43 AM)john01992 Wrote:  

(10-26-2016 11:40 AM)Fo Shizzle Wrote:  

(10-26-2016 11:09 AM)john01992 Wrote:  

(10-26-2016 11:03 AM)Lord Stanley Wrote:  That's a misleading title. Baby Boomer politicians have been a disaster for America.

The baby boomers voted for them and benefited the most from the policies.

even on a local level you can see it. they vote against schools to save money on property taxes even though a strong school system raises property value

Their entire mentality is "I got mine so why should you get yours?"

Speaking only for myself...."I worked hard for mine...its your turn now.":coffee3:

LOL you support the very policies that have ****ed over the millenials.

Nothing is stopping a damn soul from getting out and working hard and succeeding....except themselves and their poor ass decisions.

(10-26-2016 11:51 AM)Fo Shizzle Wrote:  

(10-26-2016 11:43 AM)john01992 Wrote:  

(10-26-2016 11:40 AM)Fo Shizzle Wrote:  

(10-26-2016 11:09 AM)john01992 Wrote:  

(10-26-2016 11:03 AM)Lord Stanley Wrote:  That's a misleading title. Baby Boomer politicians have been a disaster for America.

The baby boomers voted for them and benefited the most from the policies.

even on a local level you can see it. they vote against schools to save money on property taxes even though a strong school system raises property value

Their entire mentality is "I got mine so why should you get yours?"

Speaking only for myself...."I worked hard for mine...its your turn now.":coffee3:

LOL you support the very policies that have ****ed over the millenials.

Nothing is stopping a damn soul from getting out and working hard and succeeding....except themselves and their poor ass decisions.

thanks for proving my point.

The second someone starts blaming others for their failures in life? I lose my "give a schit" instantly. Life is not rainbows and unicorns. Suck it up and deal with it. Stop using your parents as a damn excuse for YOUR lack of success. You are an adult now. Act like one.

(10-26-2016 11:55 AM)Fo Shizzle Wrote:  The second someone starts blaming others for their failures in life? I lose my "give a schit" instantly. Life is not rainbows and unicorns. Suck it up and deal with it. Stop using your parents as a damn excuse for YOUR lack of success. You are an adult now. Act like one.

The blame others for your problem generation is what we have now. Case in point-the OP and the author of the article.

(10-26-2016 11:42 AM)john01992 Wrote:  wow. your posts are such a joke dude. you don't even address the point.

I apologize for trying to have a conversation where we have our differences.

You know, it's possible to disagree without being disagreeable. You should learn how to do this.

(10-26-2016 12:04 PM)Lord Stanley Wrote:  

(10-26-2016 11:42 AM)john01992 Wrote:  wow. your posts are such a joke dude. you don't even address the point.

I apologize for trying to have a conversation where we have our differences.

You know, it's possible to disagree without being disagreeable. You should learn how to do this.

sorry I am trying to find a new way to respond to people without calling them an idiot or alluding to their being idiots where I feel like they swung and missed. I can understand a different viewpoint but not when the other guy responds by missing the point entirely.

(10-26-2016 12:10 PM)john01992 Wrote:  I can understand a different viewpoint but not when the other guy responds by missing the point entirely.

Then if you could do me and the others a favor, I would like to hear you respond to my points. http://csnbbs.com/thread-795927-post-137...id13719866

Personally, I feel I am tracking straight in a conversation about how Baby Boomers in general are not the problem.

(10-26-2016 12:18 PM)Lord Stanley Wrote:  

(10-26-2016 12:10 PM)john01992 Wrote:  I can understand a different viewpoint but not when the other guy responds by missing the point entirely.

Then if you could do me and the others a favor, I would like to hear you respond to my points. http://csnbbs.com/thread-795927-post-137...id13719866

Personally, I feel I am tracking straight in a conversation about how Baby Boomers in general are not the problem.

similar to they gymnastics analogy I'm basically saying it is much harder for millenials today than BB in the past. BBers seem to overlook that fact while pissing on millenials for pointing that very trend out. all while routinely favoring policies that benefit themselves and hurt millenials.

If you look at the beginning of going off the rails (the first year that entitlement spending was more than defense spending) - that occurred about the mid 70's. I'm pretty sure that the baby boomers weren't in positions of power within the Federal Government at that time as the oldest ones were mid 20s.

The "spending someone else's money" train began pre-baby boomers. The biggest problem is that once people were addicted to the Federal entitlements, not enough politicians had the balls to risk their jobs curtailing the spending to what was taken in.

We are now in a position where a large percentage of the population is sufficiently addicted to that Federal "benefit" that almost no politician is willing to cut the spending or increase taxes enough to pay for it..........so we print money.......

(10-26-2016 12:25 PM)Crebman Wrote:  If you look at the beginning of going off the rails (the first year that entitlement spending was more than defense spending) - that occurred about the mid 70's. I'm pretty sure that the baby boomers weren't in positions of power within the Federal Government at that time as the oldest ones were mid 20s.

The "spending someone else's money" train began pre-baby boomers. The biggest problem is that once people were addicted to the Federal entitlements, not enough politicians had the balls to risk their jobs curtailing the spending to what was taken in.

We are now in a position where a large percentage of the population is sufficiently addicted to that Federal "benefit" that almost no politician is willing to cut the spending or increase taxes enough to pay for it..........so we print money.......

the whole "deregulation and cutting taxes" was definitely the BBers doing.

Is Oblunder a BB? Then why are we up to our ears in debt?

(10-26-2016 12:29 PM)olliebaba Wrote:  Is Oblunder a BB? Then why are we up to our ears in debt?

Give me a break. our debt issues was as much a Bush issue than an Obama issue with Bush arguably deserving most of the blame.

It's always someone else's fault, even at the generational level.

(10-26-2016 12:32 PM)VA49er Wrote:  It's never my fault, always their fault.

FTFY

Lets have a honest conversation about this, if you will.

Its not fair to paint every baby boomer with a generalization such as "they are the cause of the countries problems". Because that is not true. Are some of them the cause? Sure, but that is the politicians and less to do with your average everyday baby boomer.

At the same time, its probably not fair to paint ever millennial (I hate that word) as a lazy bum who wants everything for free. Is that true of some of them? Sure, I know of several... And after your dead and gone, Ill still be having to deal with them unfortunately... I hope they grow up.

I think most agree that the country has kind of gone to crap in the last 30-40 years. It is at least on a downward trend. Boomers (and the people born at the end of the prior generation) have been in power during most of that time, up to and including now. I think that is why many people (millennials, X'ers, and others) blame Boomers for the countries woes, fairly or not.

Millennials were coddled too much by their parents, I can agree with that. However, the boomers were too, they were the original "me" generation. Nonetheless, the "everybody gets a trophy" mentality has severely affected the millennial outlook on the world especially as they reached adulthood and couldn't handle it. Many still have a childish mentality and are now looking at the government as their "parents" in order to get things taken care of for them, instead of doing it themselves. Can you imagine how this will be in 20ish years when they start to take the power of the government?

The comment "I did xxxxx when I was your age, you should too" doesn't really work anymore as the economic/social/political climate is nothing like it was in the 60's and 70's when the boomers came-of-age or started working. Millennials inherited the worst recession since the '20s, this severely impacted them in looking for jobs. Combine that with stupidly high rates of student debt, that mostly went to getting stupid degrees, and you have a recipe for disaster. They have also inherited Trillions of dollars in national debt, left by previous generations for the later generations to pay off. The millennials completely mishandled all this, by sitting around and whining about it, unlike the generation during the '20s who did their best to get by. I have absolutely no faith in the millennials to make any kind of impactful difference in the state of the country, at the very most they will kick the can down the road to another generation, if that will even be possible.

The best thing we can hope for now, is a complete restart of the country. That is coming... There is no way the US in its current state can remain solvent and intact if we keep going down this road. Eventually there will have to be a major shift or complete replacement of the current government. God help us if that happens.

There really isn't anything the baby boomers didn't destroy under their stewardship.

They have ransacked the political system, turning the system into a political quagmire and eliminating the last vestiges of honour and decency.

They destroyed education, both primary and secondary, introducing standardized tests to gut primary education and dramatically increasing the cost of college to pad their own pockets.

They destroyed the family by solidifying no-fault divorce.

They led hundreds of thousands of Americans into multiple wars that have left the US in the worst foreign policy position in its entire history.

I could go on but the point is made.

Res ipsa...

A generation that was given a rising a prosperous America has birthed a generation of debt, broken families, war, and unemployment.

I think that deserves a golf clap. *******

You're slamming BB that only wanted to bring up their kids without government interference when you should be blaming the politicos that brought all that crap down on us, including BB's. Politicos brought us student loans, the real estate fiasco that the Demons brought on us and a lot of people were losing their homes because in reality they couldn't afford them, they brought us Oblundercare where no one can afford the premiums, etc, etc.

Us working stiffs have had to endure both parties blunders and now we're blamed for it.