I love the Greatest Generation. They survived the Great-Depression, then went off and defeated Hitler & the Japanese Impire when they were teenagers, then came back and built our nations highway system, built hospitals, bridges and made America the greatest nation on earth...they GAVE everything we enjoy today!
but they did produce the most selfish, rotten, spoiled generation EVER. Their contribution of Drugs, abuse and self indulgence all played to their now famous tune "If it feels good do it" is still a plague haunting our society. As every Spolied Child does, it bit the very hand that fed them. We must never forget what this horrible generation has done to our country! I do have to agree with these brats...."don't trust anyone over thirty"...they are now 55-65 years old...I don't trust these brats!
What do you think?
2007-03-27 05:02:07 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
I think you are absolutely correct. I often laugh when I hear that generation complain about my generation or kids today.
2007-03-27 05:11:50 · answer #1 · answered by MI 6 · 1⤊ 5⤋
I'm 50, and am part of the Baby Boomer generation. There is some disagreement about the years called the "Baby Boom" but it's generally agreed to be from 1946 to 1964. I have to disagree with your assessment. When I was being raised we were still taught manners and respect for our elders, and a sense of responsibility to our country and ourselves. I know my generation went a bit nuts with the "sexual revolution" and many of us indulged in drugs, but that was after we had left our parent's homes and went to college, or went out on our own. I have kept in touch with many of my friends from that period and we are all responsible adults now with children of our own. THAT'S where the problem comes in, the children of our generation.
For some reason, I have noticed a backlash against the way we were raised which gave way to a looser style of child rearing. Many of my generation lost the sense of being the parent and too many wanted to be friends to their children instead of primarily being a parent first and a friend second. This has led to our children being, in many cases, rude, irreverent, selfish and feeling as though the world owes them something. As my kids grew up and we attended barbeques and parties with our children, those of us who still found the need to teach our children respect for others couldn't help but notice at least half of the children we knew from our friends were spoiled and rude brats, to use your words. Sometimes it seemed as though they were running the show and their parents were merely indulgent bystanders.
Our generation grew up and accepted adulthood. The societal mistakes we have made, to my mind, have more to do with the careless rearing of our children. Some of us were far too indulgent, and this could well have been residue from the freedoms we allowed ourselves while in our late teens and twenties, I'll admit that much. Many of these indulgent parents we know now have big problems with their adult children who are now in their 20's and 30's. They seem unwilling to accept adulthood or any responsibility, and consistently blame their parents for their own lack of ambition and drive. So, contrary to your assessment, I think the children of the Baby Boomers present the larger problem and some us despair that they will ever really "grow up."
2007-03-27 12:40:36 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Spoiled? You know the words, how about the meanings.
Spoiled? Bill Gates, Robert Jarvick, just to name a couple who "did not contribute".
If it feels good do it? Come on you really reached for that one. That was a vocal minority.
We gave you the computers that you work on, more fule efficient cars, cleaner environment, cable TV. The artificial heart, education far beyond our wildest dreams is available to you.
Spoiled? My broken back and hips, from and explosion in the Iron Triangle, in 1968 tells me how spoiled I was.
I did not own a car until I was 22. Spoiled?
I put myself through college, working and going at night.
It is a shame and a sham that you put an entire generation into a pot and stirred it up and came up with what you did.
Spoiled? Hardly.
2007-03-27 12:17:28 · answer #3 · answered by Jim R 4 · 5⤊ 0⤋
This is from the generation that so far, has contributed?
Britteny Spears? Good show.
I have read some really idiotic statements on here, but this one takes the cake.
What happened to make you say all of this? Mommy did not have enough cookies for you this morning. Report me. Show me what a little turd you really are.
2007-03-27 12:21:32 · answer #4 · answered by Debbie T 2 · 4⤊ 1⤋
We are not ALL brats! I saw my share of the end of a belt and I was NEVER spoiled!
The ones I do NOT trust are the ones who had to raise themselves because both parents were required to work just to make ends meet! This is the generation who had no one around to tell them right from wrong and to focus on their education instead of joining gangs, stealing from others and dropping out of school. This group will be our future leaders.......... are you serious................. no wonder other countries hate us!!!!!!!!!
2007-03-27 12:12:10 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 1⤋
The "Greatest generation" should be called the "lucky Fu*kers" generation,
since they had it the easiest, the best economy, the most affordable and prosperous time to live,
The least amount of time worked with the most vacations ever a generation would ever be able to take,
And the big shabam ending with all of them living decades and decades off of social security that WE pay for while what they supposedly "put into" ran out in 1978.
I think they deserved to have kids who were "brats"
After all, the brats learned from the best of em how to be addicts from their nicotine head, alcoholic parents.
Maybe they should be called the "smelly" or the "smoky" generation, since they smoked like chimneys and they and everything they owned smelled of a dirty ash tray.
2007-03-27 12:14:15 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 5⤋
Gen Next ( 18-25 year olds) Stats...
81% Want to get rich
51% want to become famous
33% want to be community leaders
Sound much worse than the boomers, mate.
2007-03-27 12:12:34 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
Socially, the baby boomers didn't do very well. But technology has boomed under the boomers.
2007-03-27 12:14:42 · answer #8 · answered by Matt 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Basically I have to agree with you with exception of your "they gave us the spoiled brats of the sixties statement.
Back then we used to have Presidents who were the Workers Friends - not like the resulting Republicans who only side with their Financial Contributors and Special Interest Groups!
I think we can blame Ronald Reagan for the many problems we have today in this country.
And Contrary to Republican opinion he was not responsible for winning the Cold War with Russia single handily by telling the Russians to "Take down their Wall"
This is just Republican Bull$hit and propaganda since it was mainly won by the Catholic Pope John Paul, Solidarity the Polish Trade Union that defied the Communists, and the Russian people themselves by getting fed up with the people who were high up in the Communist party by living higher on the Hog then their Czar did when he was deposed back in l917!
Lo Siento!
2007-03-27 12:19:47 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 5⤋
Considering how vertically challenged many indigenous to Japan are, I guess they could be considered an "Impire".
2014-08-26 09:40:54 · answer #10 · answered by Rob 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They are the parents of this most wondrous of talented socially conscious, caring, god fearing, patriotic gluttons on God's green Earth.
2007-03-27 12:42:59 · answer #11 · answered by Rja 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋