What do you think of the Baby Boom Generation?

Question

Every previous generation worked and/or fought to defend the land.

The Baby Boomers just wanted to "share" the land.

When the Baby Boomers were in their 20s they took jobs from people in their 50s and 60s.

Now that the Baby Boomers are in their 50s and 60s they call this practice "age discrimination" and have gotten it outlawed.

Anyone else think the Baby Boomers are spoiled brats?

Answer 1

Actually being a baby boomer myself, I can see why they want to keep the jobs they have now. I for one, began at the bottom and that was at a drug store and as I got older found other positions. So, from my point of view if a baby boomer has worked their way up in the business world, their jobs should not be taken from them unless they are ready for retirement especially since that's been changed to age 67. Why should we give away our income?

Also back then, as long as a person had a high school diploma they were doing well. And take now for example, I had gone back to college to improve my skills and worked very hard for the 4.0 average I had...which most of the students I attended with had 2.5 - 3.0 at best. I just graduated this past May and have a degree in law enforcement, but at 57 I'm not going into the police academy, although the director did want me to. I had a public safety management major, which made me more desirable for a job within the county system of government. OR so I thought. For government positons, even in the offices we have to give up a birthdate, which I feel is unfair, tell them if we're black, hispanic or white, which I also think is not fair because they get to pick and choose. So age discrimination is a good possibility.

I am too young to retire, and I have no place to live right now because I haven't been able to get the position I trained for, and do deserve. The only thing I could get was a commericial cleaning job 3 nights a week, and you can laugh, but at least I don't suck off welfare. Now would you say this is fair? I mean after all, it was the tax dollars of the citizens of the US that got me through college with Pell Grants.

So, we're not spoiled brats. The younger generation wants the 'top pay jobs' right out of college without experience. That sounds sort of spoiled to me, wouldn't you say? When I was brought up, it was a majority of men who worked and the women stayed home.

Answer 2

Ignorance is bliss.......

One of the contributions made by the Boomer generation, appears to be the expansion of individual freedom. Boomers were leaders in the civil rights movement, the feminist cause in the 1970s, gay rights, handicapped rights, and the right to privacy.

Baby boomers presently make up the lion's share of the political, cultural, industrial, and academic leadership class in the United States. Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, born within sixty days of each other in mid-1946, are the first and second Baby Boomer presidents, and their careers in office illustrate the wide, often diverging, spectrum of values and attitudes espoused by this largest American generational group to date. To date, baby boomers also have the highest median household incomes in the United States.

Government Movers and Shakers

The Boom Generation has, as of 2006, had two U.S. Presidents:

1946 Bill Clinton, 1993-2001
1946 George W. Bush, 2001-incumbent
It is estimated that the Boom Generation will hold a plurality in Congress until 2015, the White House until 2021, and will have a majority in the Supreme Court from 2010 to 2030.

Non-U.S. peers of the Boomers include U2 frontman Bono, Daniel Ortega, Charles, Prince of Wales, Tony Blair, and former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.

In light of the generation gap and the poor state of the environment, social security, etc., Andrew Smith, in his novel "Moondust," said that Baby Boomers have the unique distinction of pissing off both their parents' and their children's generations.

Famous People

The Boom Generation has had many influential pop-culture icons including:

Bob Dylan, Singer/Songwriter, b. 1941
Donovan Leitch, Singer/Songwriter, b. 1946
Joan Baez, Singer/Songwriter, b. 1941
Janis Joplin, Singer - Big Brother and the Holding Company, b. 1943
Billy Joel, Singer, b. 1949
Jimi Hendrix, Singer/Guitarist - Jimi Hendrix Experience, b. 1942
Robert Plant, Lead Singer - Led Zeppelin, b. 1948
Jim Morrison, Singer/Poet - The Doors, b. 1943
James Hetfield, Guitarist, Lead Singer - Metallica, b. 1963
Madonna, American Singer, Entertainer, b. 1958
John Bonham, Drummer - Led Zeppelin, b. 1948
Anthony Kiedis, Lead Singer - Red Hot Chili Peppers, b. 1962
Howard Stern, satellite radio disc jockey, b. 1954
Gene Simmons, Bassist, Vocalist-Kiss, b. 1949
Pete Townshend, Guitarist/Songwriter - The Who, b. 1945
Jerry Seinfeld, Comedian b. 1954
Oprah Winfrey, Talk show host b. 1954

Cultural Contributions

Their cultural endowments have included the following:

Doonesbury (cartoonist, Garry Trudeau b. 1948)
All the President's Men (book, Bob Woodward b. 1943 and Carl Bernstein b. 1944, later a movie)
Forrest Gump (film, Robert Zemeckis b. 1952)
Steve Jobs b. 1955 (Co-founder of Apple Computer, founder of Next Computer)
The Color Purple (Alice Walker b. 1944)
Cathy (cartoonist, Cathy Guisewite b. 1950)
"American Pie" (song, Don McLean b. 1945)
Saturday Night Live (television show)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (film, Steven Spielberg b. 1946)
Thirtysomething (television series)
Vietnam Veterans' Memorial (Maya Lin b. 1959)
Do the Right Thing (film, Spike Lee b. 1957)
The Wonder Years (television series)
The Deslene Murray Show (television series)

Answer 3

Baby Boomers went to Vietnam and defended the land. Baby Boomers are responsible for creating new technologies and driving the economy. Are there some slackers? Sure EVERY generation has some.
You paint with a wide brush pal. Too bad it is on a skewed canvas.

Answer 4

The Baby Boomers started as Yippies and Hippies, but, became Yuppies and self-centered tycoons. Look at folks like Trump, Clinton, McCain and Kerry. They had ideas, and dreams. They acheived them. But, to what end? I'm not saying they are bad. I'm just saying they were a generation lost.

In their defense, they saw injustice, and identified it. They used techniques and thought that are merely mimiced, today. They took a note from Red October, and learned solidarity. They may be lost, but, the younger generations certainly have yet to prove they have what it takes to fill their shoes.

Answer 5

How funny. You really need to look things up before you come on here and appear to be totally ignorant. I never took any jobs. I worked my way up from dishwasher and now am retired before I am 60. I think your perspective is clouded by your jealousy and lack of insight. Too bad. But who cares? You are a whiney little nothing and have no basis for talking out of turn.

Answer 6

Who is they? I have never heard such silliness. Babyboomers brought you most of what you have. Computers, dvd, hdtv, efficient houses and cars, highest standard of living around. We took jobs from people in their 50's and 60's? Where did you get this? SOmeone told you and you believed it. Come on now. Do some research don't just spout.

Answer 7

Hello, Baby boomers (me) fought in Nam, served our country etc. Now feel free to wipe the stupid from your drooling face and go away.

Answer 8

Most of you kids today are spolied and lazy. You take everything for granted. You need a good swift kick in the a**!

Answer 9

Is this the opening salvo to attempt a lame argument about why we should destroy SS and Medicare/caid? We do have to pay for it, whether you like it or not.

Answer 10

No, they're not spoiled brats. They're my parents and they're very hard working. People who fight for a cause.

The teens of today seem the most spoiled ever.