Do the baby boomers feel bad about screwing over America?

Question

They have produced the worst political leadership in the History of the country, I'm paying thousands of dollars in Social Security that I will never get to see to them, and they don't even appreciate it, have caused Global Warming and won't recognize and will have successfully collapsed the housing market in several years time.

Answer 1

Well, at least someone else sees this as a problem, so my hat's off to you. They are leaving a good dent in the national debt, which with the future plans on Medicaid/Medicair will be over $40trillion, unless something changes. It seems like a number to most people, and it is, a very big one, so big that it pretty much bears no value when you say it. The current administration is also contributing to the situation, and have done nothing but raise the limit on the national debt and let it go up out of control. This, along with the health care issue, energy crisis, cold war 2, ~~terrorists~~ (that this administration has created), rising wage gap, rising age gap, rising education gap, rising tax:income ratio all make my generation pretty much the worst time to be alive.

Answer 2

Wow....

They also dealt with one of the craziest times in our countries history. Getting drafted to Korea and or Vietnam, multiple assasinations, MLK Jr., JFK, RFK, Civil Rights Movement, Landing on the Moon, Cuban Missile Crisis, etc.....

I hate stupid questions like this. You should take some history lessons and learn to look at things objectively. You should research all of the things you claim they f*$ked up! Global Warming started at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution(19th Century), when carbon emitting factories first came to be. Do you drive a car or buy products that were made in a carbon emitting factory? Is your house totally "green"? Guess what, you are contributing to global warming too! The Housing Market is failing because of poor planning and procedures on the part of the lending institutions, who I'm sure employ more than just baby boomers. Your worst leadership comment is just your opinion. G-dub sucks yes I agree, but our economy was fantastic when Clinton(a baby boomer) was in office! Also, please remember that no past leaders have had to deal with the situation that we are in now! As for social security, if the population in the country continues to increase, when you are old, there will be way more people paying into social security than there are now, just like we are doing for the babyboomers, who, by the way, have paid into it their entire working lives! I agree the system needs some work, but everything is relative. The worlds population is estimated to be around 7.5 -8 billion by 2012.

You should read a book called Guns, Germs, and Steel. It discusses population growth , food production, the movement of human populations, etc.... I think it would help put you in a better, more educated place. Before you make comments about the current state of the country or the world for that matter, you should research how we got to that point in the first place. This book is a good place to start!

P.S. Just one last piece of knowledge for you...
Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it!

Answer 3

We were right about the war in Vietnam. Just like we said, it was all a big lie cooked up by the CIA and the military-industrial complex to enrich a lot of fat cat assholes at the expense of thousands of American families and millions of Laotian, Cambodian, and Vietnamese families.
We were right when we said it was illegal, immoral, and just plain wrong.

We were right when we said we couldn’t trust the government to tell us the truth.

We were right back in the 60s when we said we needed alternative energy, an environmentally sustainable life-style, and that we should stop trying to force everyone into the same mold.

We were right when we said we needed to curb the excesses of capitalism or the gap between rich and poor would become a divisive and oppressive nightmare.

We were right when we said that prohibition would not work and that the laws against drugs do more harm than the drugs themselves ever could.

We were right when we said that Nixon was a rat and a crook, and that the CIA was running heroin in Vietnam.

We were right when we said that Reagan was a wolf in sheep’s clothing and a disaster for America.

We were right when we said trickle-down economics was a bullshit greedhead rip-off of the poor.

We were right when we said they were torturing and murdering innocent people in SE Asia, South America, Central America and elsewhere, and that we were training foreign armies to do those things at the School of the Americas at Ft. Benning, Georgia.

We were right when we said that Wall Street, the government, and the military-industrial complex had formed an evil iron triangle that has a stranglehold on our country and is pushing us inexorably into a state of total war to serve their own nefarious ends.

We were right when we said the MSM was becoming a propaganda machine.

We were right when we said the religious right was filled more with hatred and intolerance than with love or Christian charity.

We were right when we said love is the answer.

We were right when we said workers were being ruthlessly oppressed and unions neutered and pressured out of existence.

We were right when we said the government was spying on American citizens.

We were right when we said we were sending too many people to prison for all the wrong things.

We were right when we said that the government wants to take away our civil rights.

We were right when we said the Republics were bible-totin’ fascists with fake smiles and daggers up their sleeves.

We were right when we said that we all deserve to be freer but that the government intended to make us less so.

We were right when we said that there is something bad wrong with a government that spies on Quakers, peaceniks, and the guy who wrote All You Need is Love.

And you think WE should be sent to the dustbin? That’s almost funny – except that it isn’t.

Where is the acknowledgement that we are the leading edge of thought? Where is the admission that WE WERE RIGHT?

Answer 4

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Answer 5

As a baby boomer I feel bad that we didn't teach our children not to be such unthinking lemmings following the leftist propaganda. We have a wonderful economy now, full employment, housing that even low income people can get into, and opportunities for education that never existed when we were young. Global warming is a complete BS job. And social security wouldn't be going broke if the tax and spend government the old liberals voted for weren't giving it away to people who never paid a nickel into the system. Most of those old coots are not part of our generation. So get off your lazy butt youngster and do something with your life besides whining and crying. Stop socialism. That'll keep you busy.

Answer 6

Er...Warren Harding and Herbert Hoover were around LONG before the Baby Boomers came along. Also, the Baby Boomers aren't the only ones responsible for global warming.

Answer 7

The baby boomers have little to be proud of except for great music and some neat inventions. In their youth they were free love drug abusers with little use for authority. When they woke up in the 80s they became Reagan Democrats who worshipped the almighty dollar and all the material things it could provide. The Boomers lost most of their dough when the tech stock bubble burst. Now they're back to the Democrat Party hoping they'll provide them with a secure retirement. Forget about it.

Answer 8

They're the ones that have fought for your right to gripe and moan about it - World War II, The Korean War, The Vietnam War and two Gulf Wars.

They haven't screwed over America - they've created it, dearie.

Answer 9

I do feel bad that the baby boomer in the White House right now is such a failure. Our generation can do better than that. We did in the 90's and will again starting in 2009 but for now we should be and are ashamed of what some of our generation have done.

Answer 10

if the boomers did all that, wait til the skate rats and gamers get hold of this country