Are Boomers to blame for broken government?

Boomers run our country now. Are the boomers to blame for our dysfunctional gov't?

http://www.cnn.com/2011/09/29/opinion/navarrette-broken-government/index.html?eref=rss_mostpopular

This author says not entirely. But it is an interesting question. The boomers are the kids of the greatest generation.

 

Yes.

The Boomer generation is the worst generation in the history of America.

 

I, personally, blame it on the "greatest generation." Watergate, etc. comes from them. The baby boomers just made it worse.

I can't wait until Gen Xers are in charge.

 

Who cares? Why don't we skip the blame game and start fixing this country. After WWII did we blame Germany or did we use our tax dollars to fix what was broken?

 

Got any explanation for why you think this, or do you just like to make grandiose statements?

The boomers were the last generation of Americans to get a good education, and you can see evidence of that in this forum over and over. It was rare that any of us turned into a bunch of worthless thumbsuckers that had to go home and live with mommie and daddy after becoming "educated"! Today's 20 and 30 somethings can barely write a complete sentence, and they like to make empty, rhetorical blatherings like, "The Boomer generation is the worst generation in the history of America." I can stick a finger down my throat and bring up more useful material than that! No wonder nobody wants to hire idiots like that.

 

The Hipppies are in charge- what did you expect?

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That's right, first we remove progressives from power and roll back the Left's social revolution. It has been a debacle.

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The Greatest Generation survived the Great Depression, won WWII, deterred communist aggression in Korea, won the Cold War against the greatest threat to human freedom up to that time, and oh by the way, produced the greatest economy in world history.

If the WWII generation has one failure it was spoiling the Boomer generation rotten.

As you attempt to point out the Boomers had all the advantages and they have mostly just pissed their advantage away and surrendered world leadership to the Chinese.

 

Debunked... and quite nicely I might add.

 

The Left Handed Communist Hippy Boomers are to blame for the Broken Government.

 

Yep, it's a shame.


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Being a part of the boomer generation I can tell you that yes...liberal boomers are responsible for our dysfunctional govt.

From Clinton, algore, kerry, hillary, robert reich, barney ((*)(*)(*)) frank, biden and most of the black congressional congress etc--these lib boomers did screw up our nation big time.

Keep in mind that not all boomers are responsible for our current malaise, for people like Rush Limbaugh and yours truly distanced ourselves from the sixties mindset of fighting the establishment, smoking dope, anti war protesting and laughing at those libs trying to get us to join in with their SDS (Students for Democratic Society)....aka.. pure communism.

 

boomers and the prior generation absolutely share blame as do subsequent generations

We can glamorize the WW2 vets and those who lived through the great depression. it was a different mindset and, as with all Monday Morning Quaterbacking you get to do it looking back historically. The past generations did not have access to news and information the way it is today. Pride in your country was the norm and to die for your country was not desirable, but many were willing to do it.

A liberal today would not recognize a Democrat from the 50's. Heck, even Kennedy knew the adverse affect high taxes had on the economy.


I can at least paint a picture of many of the boomers I know.

Many of us were the first generation in the family to go to school beyond high school

Most of us had after school jobs starting in the 8th grade and have worked ever since

Most of us worked every weekend

most of us paid for our own college education.

many of us experimented with drugs

most of us were from families with more than 2 children and shared a bedroom as we grew up

entertainment was going to your cousin's house or them coming to yours

the parents played cards and kicked the kids from the room

the kids played outdoors all of the time

most of us bought our own first vehicles with our own money


most of us understood that minimum wage jobs were for kids, moms needing extra money or for old folks looking for something to do or some extra cash

we knew that we had to start at the bottom and work our way up

we saved our money and lived frugally so we could buy a home


most of us understand the value of patience and that you must work hard for everything and that nothing comes easy

 

I don't think we can blame whole generations for anything, nor do whole generations deserve credit for anything.

If we seek blame for anything it goes back to Karl Marx, and the legions of idiots that follow his teachings; the hippies, today's liberals, and all the failures across the globe that the US spent the better part of 60 years combating. Toss in the sheer stupidity of Woodrow Wilson and just about all of our problems can be accounted for.

 

A lot of us boomers worked hard all our lives, supported ourselves and our families, made good money, and prepared for our retirements. As for having pissed away an advantage to the Chinese, if you feel so strongly about it, then never buy anything made in China again! Now which one is the worst generation in history? Most of that dynamic was put in place right after the fall of the Soviet Union, and we boomers weren't in power yet at that point.

By the way, it was boomers who led to way to end racial discrimination in this country, end the stupid, pointless Vietnam War that got 60,000 American servicemen and women killed, and we raised so much hell about the criminal Nixon administration that he was forced to resign after the Watergate scandal.

What does today's 20-something do? Piddle with his smartphone, play "Angry Birds", and sponge off of mommie and daddy. I'm looking hard but fail to see any sign of "greatness" in this bunch of useless morons, especially after they flocked like a gaggle of geese to elect a socialist idiot like Obama.

 

LOL, well if one feels prudent enough to blame the nations woes on one demagraphic, feel free, the reality of the assertion is something that one cannot definitely pin down. Have Boomers abused oe exploited a certain advantage or opportunity, yes, and more than once; have what Boomers implemented the sole reason for the nations woes, very highly improbable.

Like I've said, it is far easier to give advice than to take it. If one wants to focus on a particular age demographic, and then narrowly focus on the negatives, I think one might be able to conclude that Boomers have caused the majority of the woes, simply of the era where we currently reside. But to overtly leave out the contributions, let alone leave out the influence of past and future generations is plain ignorance.

 

by the way

boomers started the company that brought you the Iphone, Ipad, Itunes etc

boomers started the companies which pioneered the industry allowing you to make cool posts on the Internet

boomers started the company whoch routes most of the packets on the Internet

 

Really?

So when Truman integrated the military in 1947 and the Supreme Court ruled on Brown V Board of Education in 1955 or when that old rascal LBJ passed the Civil Rights and Voting Acts in the mid 60's it was actually Baby Boomers in their diapers pulling all the strings to make it happen?

Hum.

As for biased lefty history of the Vietnam War it was not pointless to stop the expansion of communism in its tracks even if we were not able to save South Vietnam.

As for the rest of your claims I think the state of the US economy speaks for itself.

Boomers did lead the way in giving our manufacturing base away the China and they are the most to blame for crappy economic position today.

 

Nixon was the 1st to open ties with the Chinese. He would be considered pre-boomer.

 

IF you read the article, it gives many reasons why it won't be fixed.
Partisanship is here to stay for awhile. It is the partisanship that is killing the country.

 

You a boomer?

 

See above post about partisanship. Classic reason for our failures.

 

Those 20-something people, are the kids of the boomers.

 

That's the problem with Boomers or their apologists.

It's all or nothing.

Merely opening diplomatic relations with China is hardly the same as giving away our entire manufacturing base to them as we did under Clinton, Bush and now Obama.

I see moronic economists go on TV and ponder the phenomena of the so-called jobless recovery where Wall St is making money but businesses are not hiring in spite of trillions in government spending to put people back to work.

But the recovery happens in China instead of America because that's were they make all the junk that Americans run out and buy with their stimulus checks.

 

Then you're a boomer? You are very partisan and not open to compromise from what I've seen of your posts, so by your definition you must be a boomer.

I brought up Nixon, we were in Viet Nam fighting the chinese communism and he goes to China to open up relations. Why? Fast forward 25 yrs, that's why.