(10-26-2016 01:50 PM)olliebaba Wrote:  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.

Boomers all, of every political persuasion

BBs made great parents IMO - this is coming from a Millennial. I think they're sort of a hard-headed generation, but I find millennials idealistic but not practical.

i think we're all a product of how we were raised. My parents are conservative southerners (they arent rednecks) but always taught to treat everyone with respect no matter what. They're Trump supportters but definitely arent racist.

(10-26-2016 01:28 PM)HeartOfDixie Wrote:  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. *******

The reality is the boomers are the first generation in U.S. history to create a world that was worse than they inherited. Doesn't mean every boomer is a bad person, just as every millennial isn't what they're painted to be, but collectively, the boomer generation was bad for America in all the ways HoD lays out and more.

Ain’t nothing gonna change because rich folks (Millennials, Gen X, Boomers etc) on both sides like their summer homes too much.

Boomers also helped bring about the longest boom in American history and incredible innovation in the 80s and 90s.

I did see an article a while back that used a little more thought than the original article written by the mindless millenial. It was talking about how the inability to talk to each other in politics started in the 60s when young boomers were at opposite extremes on a lot of issues. And it has carried on as boomers took over more and more of the government and the people with the shared experience of WWII retired.

Its often forgotten that not every young person was protesting in the streets in the 60s. Only those in journalism and Hollywood.

(10-26-2016 02:00 PM)Niner National Wrote:  

(10-26-2016 01:28 PM)HeartOfDixie Wrote:  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. *******

The reality is the boomers are the first generation in U.S. history to create a world that was worse than they inherited. Doesn't mean every boomer is a bad person, just as every millennial isn't what they're painted to be, but collectively, the boomer generation was bad for America in all the ways HoD lays out and more.

Boomers helped end the cold war. As kids we had fallout drills, not just fire drills. All the whining about how bad things are simply focused on the last 8 years. We have a world of unprecedented prosperity and material wealth. We're spoiled. Now the last 8 years, things have drifted downhill.

Its like how people got spoiled and just hated George HW Bush in 1992. He presided over the fall of the Berlin Wall. We won a 50 year war. He drove Sadaam Hussein out of Kuwait with international support and minimal casualties. Then we had a mild recession and people were spoiled by the highs and got really upset with him. Its like that with football coaches. If they have too much success too early, they have a very, very high standard to meet to avoid extreme dissatisfaction.

at school we had active shooter drills, not just fire drills.

What do their kids care, they have a basement to live in forever.

(10-26-2016 11:10 AM)muffinman Wrote:  While I agree that baby boomers (at least the politicians) have completely wrecked everything.

Trump wont be the mistake, as he wont get elected.

Hillary will be the mistake...

You don't know that. At all.

(10-26-2016 12:02 PM)bullet Wrote:  

(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 (and HoD).

Unless he was joking, though I didn't read it as a joke.

(10-26-2016 11:47 AM)Fo Shizzle Wrote:  

(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.

The bolded is the only issue I have with your stance. I know many lawyers and doctors and otherwise generally successful people who played LOTS of video games. They turned out fine. Better than fine in fact.

(10-26-2016 03:32 PM)john01992 Wrote:  at school we had active shooter drills, not just fire drills.

Baby boomers had atomic bomb drills.

Worst mistake of the baby boomers is ObamaCare. That has become terribly obvious.

(10-26-2016 10:03 PM)GeorgeBorkFan Wrote:  

(10-26-2016 03:32 PM)john01992 Wrote:  at school we had active shooter drills, not just fire drills.

Baby boomers had atomic bomb drills.

The point could not have gone any higher over your head

(10-27-2016 01:40 PM)john01992 Wrote:  

(10-26-2016 10:03 PM)GeorgeBorkFan Wrote:  

(10-26-2016 03:32 PM)john01992 Wrote:  at school we had active shooter drills, not just fire drills.

Baby boomers had atomic bomb drills.

The point could not have gone any higher over your head

Naw, I think you can't see past your own narcissism and hand wringing.

No you literally didn't read the thread.

(10-27-2016 01:40 PM)john01992 Wrote:  

(10-26-2016 10:03 PM)GeorgeBorkFan Wrote:  

(10-26-2016 03:32 PM)john01992 Wrote:  at school we had active shooter drills, not just fire drills.

Baby boomers had atomic bomb drills.

The point could not have gone any higher over your head

I think you just proved my point.

Single terrorist vs. the end of civilization.

both of you proved incapable of reading this thread.

And are you for real? How many school children in the US were killed by nukes? How many have been killed by school shootings?

Lol. Idiot baby boomers have produced the idiots we have today.

Smart baby boomers have produced the smart successful people we have today.

This whole thread. Lol.

(10-27-2016 02:18 PM)john01992 Wrote:  both of you proved incapable of reading this thread.

And are you for real? How many school children in the US were killed by nukes? How many have been killed by school shootings?

Read the whole thing. Still waiting for you to make a point. All I see from this is there are too many millennials who are unable to take responsibility for their lives and decisions. They prefer to blame the lack of need for their $200,000 gender studies degree on everyone else.

Try reading up on your history and understanding how close we were to nuclear war with the Cuban missile crisis. Compare the repercussions of that and the impact on the lives of the people at that time, to how likely it was for you to experience a school shooting or actually be harmed in one.

Whether the baby boomers sucked or not, it doesn't change where we are today. People have to deal with reality, not what we wish it to be.