Baby Boomers U.S. Worst Generation?

[NorthDallas40]

Does she crumble Viagra in your oats and prune juice?

No prune juice or high fiber. Don’t want to waste the Vitamin V time

 

[NorthDallas40]

As I told McDad, she's got poor taste and makes bad decisions.

That wedding ring on your finger is enough proof of that sport

 

[hog88]

Does she crumble Viagra in your oats and prune juice?

She puts it in his Ensure.

 

[hog88]

That wedding ring on your finger is enough proof of that sport

I cannot argue that.

 

[NorthDallas40]

She puts it in his Ensure.

The strawberry is tasty!

 

[GoDucks349]

Your parents generation fought in WWII and gave you everything, and its been take, take, take, ever since

My father fought in WWII, survived the Battle of the Bulge, liberated a concentration camp and came back and worked hard. As for what I was given by my parents, the agreement was this, if I went to college and got decent grades they would pay for my first year of college. That amount was $1,200 (1965-66). That is all that was given to me financially.

Starting while I was in the fourth grade, I moved irrigation pipe and fed the cattle on our dairy. I never received an allowance in my life I worked for everything. I did paper routes, umpired baseball, painted houses, mowed lawns, etc.

Today my wife and I are setting up a trust fund to pay for graduate school for our grandchildren and nieces.

And yes, I'm a Boomer....

 

[SpaceCoastVol]

Yes, bragged

Mmmmkay. I guess it's bad to be proud that by that age i was out on my own and not depending on mommy and daddy at that age. Thanks.

 

[utvolpj]

Old?!

...

Ok fine dammit. There are several of us here so watch you step. Weezer. VolStrom, AM64 come to mind immediately. And I believe SCV is up to a handful of years older than myself from discussion.

And for the record I’m a very tail end boomer. Born in ‘64.

Weezer is not a boomer. He and I are likely in the same hs yearbook (don't tell him that though)

 

[SpaceCoastVol]

Today my wife and I are setting up a trust fund to pay for graduate school for our grandchildren and nieces.

w were thinking of doing that as well. But with some of the products coming out, we are thinking of doing something similar to Mike Rowe. Helping tradesmen set up businesses.

 

[NorthDallas40]

Weezer is not a boomer. He and I are likely in the same hs yearbook (don't tell him that though)

Really... thought he was older than that. Oh well I guess he just radiates that crotchety old bastard personality so I view him as a kindred soul

 

[hog88]

Really... thought he was older than that. Oh well I guess he just radiates that crotchety old bastard personality so I view him as a kindred soul

I too thought he was a blue hair.

 

[NorthDallas40]

I too thought he was a blue hair.

It’s silver you color blind cretin. The chicks have blue hair.

 

[hog88]

It’s silver you color blind cretin. The chicks have blue hair.

Wheeze isn't a chick?

 

[jp1]

How could you possibly know that? What is your "fair share"? Putting more in than you've taken out? How do you even quantify how much you've taken out?

I didn't say "fair share", I said "share". I have no clue what someone's "fair share" is, however I was referencing the boomers that I know/knew. Most have always held a job, and paid what the government considered their "share". My comment was certainly unscientific and my personal observation only.

 

[AM64]

Really... thought he was older than that. Oh well I guess he just radiates that crotchety old bastard personality so I view him as a kindred soul

Nope. I thought the same, but it turns out Weezer's parents are close to my age. His personality is just older than his body ... which is kinda refreshing considering the mental state of most of the kids posting here.

 

[AM64]

It’s silver you color blind cretin. The chicks have blue hair.

And pink and purple, and some indefinite other colors.

 

[NorthDallas40]

Wheeze isn't a chick?

Not during the daytime anyway. Then the blue hair wig comes out.

 

[Thunder Good-Oil]

Biden and Pelosi aren’t Boomers. Just saying. And avocado toast sounds mighty fine BTW.

 

[n_huffhines]

I didn't say "fair share", I said "share". I have no clue what someone's "fair share" is, however I was referencing the boomers that I know/knew. Most have always held a job, and paid what the government considered their "share". My comment was certainly unscientific and my personal observation only.

I didn't think there was a difference between "share" and "fair share" in this context. Knowing now that you meant what the government has decided you should pay...the whole conversation is about how this government is completely screwing this up, so saying you paid the share assigned to you by the government who is screwing this up doesn't really work.

 

[utvolpj]

Biden and Pelosi aren’t Boomers. Just saying. And avocado toast sounds mighty fine BTW.

Close enough. Boomer and silent gen might as well be the same though

 

[Thunder Good-Oil]

Close enough. Boomer and silent gen might as well be the same though

They’re over a couple decades older than the youngest Boomers. Those Boomers are closer in age to every Xer and the oldest Millennials.

 

[utvolpj]

They’re over a couple decades older than the youngest Boomers. Those Boomers are closer in age to every Xer and the oldest Millennials.

They're 3-5 yrs from the boomers gen

 

[AM64]

Who are the boomers in the PF besides old dallas 40 and Grandvol?

I'm one of the originals - born in 1946. The boomer range is way too broad - both in age and in scope. The antiwar and hippie type boomers aren't the same as a lot of the rest of us who retained more traditional values. Some of us didn't buy into the socialist line of thought that bent things to the left. We weren't for the government programs that added entitlements and takers to the scheme. Also there's a time lag in those running the country and those being controlled by them. Most of the people running around doing stupid schiff (like LBJ) that a lot of people blame on boomers weren't boomers at all. There may have been boomers supporting things like the Great Society, but the planners were not boomers - they were members of the Greatest Generation. By the way my generation couldn't originally vote until we were 21, so we didn't really have a lot of say about things that fools like LBJ did.

Another thing that seems to be forgotten was that Social Security came into being well before boomers - courtesy if one of the great lefties - FDR. You also have to remember the first SS recipients didn't pay into SS, so the first people to pay in were paying for earlier generations rather investing for their own retirement. It's what happens when you create unfunded government plans out of thin air. Medicare/Medicaid were the work of the second great lefty - LBJ, not a boomer; that's another program that the first recipients got for free - and many Medicaid recipients still do.

For the record, as boomers we paid into SS all our working years, and Medicare from the time it became law. Now in our retirement we still pay Medicare premiums and income tax on our SS income. We, like everybody else, have had no say in how congress allocates the extorted SS and Medicare funds. They should have been kept separate from general revenues, but they weren't. The best lesson for thinking about boomers would be to consider the separate categories of boomers like the separate categories of legislators - the CA liberals vs conservative red state legislators - all are far from perfect, but there's a huge difference in philosophy. FTR, SS and other things that people actually fund should not be considered "entitlements" like the other unfunded crap called entitlements. I can't figure out why something is an entitlement if the person never paid for it in the first place.

BTW, PEPPERJAX, this is just an update - not an educational post aimed at you.

 

[PEPPERJAX]

I'm one of the originals - born in 1946. The boomer range is way too broad - both in age and in scope. The antiwar and hippie type boomers aren't the same as a lot of the rest of us who retained more traditional values. Some of us didn't buy into the socialist line of thought that bent things to the left. We weren't for the government programs that added entitlements and takers to the scheme. Also there's a time lag in those running the country and those being controlled by them. Most of the people running around doing stupid schiff (like LBJ) that a lot of people blame on boomers weren't boomers at all. There may have been boomers supporting things like the Great Society, but the planners were not boomers - they were members of the Greatest Generation. By the way my generation couldn't originally vote until we were 21, so we didn't really have a lot of say about things that fools like LBJ did.

Another thing that seems to be forgotten was that Social Security came into being well before boomers - courtesy if one of the great lefties - FDR. You also have to remember the first SS recipients didn't pay into SS, so the first people to pay in were paying for earlier generations rather investing for their own retirement. It's what happens when you create unfunded government plans out of thin air. Medicare/Medicaid were the work of the second great lefty - LBJ, not a boomer; that's another program that the first recipients got for free - and many Medicaid recipients still do.

For the record, as boomers we paid into SS all our working years, and Medicare from the time it became law. Now in our retirement we still pay Medicare premiums and income tax on our SS income. We, like everybody else, have had no say in how congress allocates the extorted SS and Medicare funds. They should have been kept separate from general revenues, but they weren't. The best lesson for thinking about boomers would be to consider the separate categories of boomers like the separate categories of legislators - the CA liberals vs conservative red state legislators - all are far from perfect, but there's a huge difference in philosophy. FTR, SS and other things that people actually fund should not be considered "entitlements" like the other unfunded crap called entitlements. I can't figure out why something is an entitlement if the person never paid for it in the first place.

BTW, PEPPERJAX, this is just an update - not an educational post aimed at you.

Thanks for the insight.

 

[Thunder Good-Oil]

They're 3-5 yrs from the boomers gen

The youngest Boomers are almost 25 years younger than Nancy but less than 20 years older than the first wave of Millennials. The oldest Millennials seem far less petulant, spoiled, and whiney than the rest of them.