Baby Boomers: Worst generation ever! (1 Viewer)

[lod001]

Absolutely not.  Pretty much all of my friends.  I'm 54.  Born in '62.  First job at 14.  Took a bus to get there.  Always had a job, paid for my own first car, insurance, all spending money, paid every dime of college (had to quit baseball because couldn't work full time, go to college, and play ball).  Married at 24, saved for a house, first kid at 26, paid for 3 great kids to go through college.  Worked my ### off, zero pension, have had to watch the market tank 401K's multiple times.  Paid max into SS for years.  Haven't received a dime for anything yet - but I'm getting taxed plenty to pay for a bunch of stuff.

Yet people think we are leeches and made the world worse off.  Maybe you're right.  Take that year (sabbatical before work?) off this generations feels entitled to traveling the globe to meditate and come back with answers instead of just #####ing about it.  Hopefully you'll be ready to roll up your sleeves before you turn 30.  Doubtful.

Quit tying us to pensions.  Only ones that have those anymore are mostly government related.  Police, fire, city workers, Water and Power, schools/universities, some mandated by unions, etc. Or those that mandate early retirement (pilots).  

I'm all for eliminating pensions and making it an equal playing field for all.  401K's for everyone. 

Seriously hoping the Gen X's, Gen Y's, Millennials will change things for the better.  We'll see who walks the talk vs. just complaining about the hand that they've been dealt.

 Except for the elimination of pensions.

What it should be is the elimination of the failure called the 401k, which was created to boost profits at the expense of employees. Corporate greed found another way to shaft the people that made the company great to begin with. Sure there are some pensions that are ridiculous and those need fixed but correctly run pensions are far better than any 401k.

 

[msudaisy26]

I always found it funny that pensions were blamed for so much of the problem. My father in law gets around 43k a year for his pension. I don't see how that is unreasonable for 30+ years of service.

edit: Also when he can start collecting his social security his pension goes down. He will actually make closer to 50k a year, but instead of getting 43k from his employer and 7k from social security he will get like 38k from his employer and 12k from social security.

 

[PIK95]

I always found it funny that pensions were blamed for so much of the problem. My father in law gets around 43k a year for his pension. I don't see how that is unreasonable for 30+ years of service.

I actually agree.  It's just a distraction tactic to get the attention off of the super rich who were/are robbing us and destroying the environment.  I do blame the Boomers for letting it happen, and almost encouraging it, thinking they will be the billionaire someday.

 

[Judge Smails]

 Except for the elimination of pensions.

What it should be is the elimination of the failure called the 401k, which was created to boost profits at the expense of employees. Corporate greed found another way to shaft the people that made the company great to begin with. Sure there are some pensions that are ridiculous and those need fixed but correctly run pensions are far better than any 401k.

Pensions are bad when a) underfunded b) spiked.  I have no problem with somebody putting in years of service and getting a reasonable amount for life.  That may require them putting in more themselves throughout their careers, retiring a bit later, getting a maximum (like SS) or less than the 80, 90, 100% that some get now after spiking.  

I agree that for the most part 401k's have been a failure, and the retirement outlook for many is bleak.  But pensions are gone for good outside of the govt sector.  They only worked when people stayed at one company for a long time and retired there.  There was loyalty, on both sides.  Those days are over.  

 

[Doctor Detroit]

Federal pensions (FERS) are funded through 2080, so let's not go overboard in eliminating pensions that are run efficiently.  It's not my fault private pensions failed, and it's not my fault individual states and municipalities run by Baby Boomers btw, are bankrupt.  If you get too fat your heart is gonna fail, but you guys missed that. 

My issue with baby boomers is the EAT, DRINK, EAT, EAT, DRINK, EAT and worry about the consequences later mentality.  Pensions are a great example. 

 

[James Daulton]

The boomer hate on here makes me 

And @Judge Smails you're basically a Gen X'er.  I really consider true boomers to have been born before 1960, before the country started to awaken and slough off the "old fashioned" ways and become more progressive.  

 

[ShaqAttaq]

Z Man, Zartan, or Zamboni?

definitely Zartan

 

[jwb]

Absolutely not.  Pretty much all of my friends.  I'm 54.  Born in '62.  First job at 14.  Took a bus to get there.  Always had a job, paid for my own first car, insurance, all spending money, paid every dime of college (had to quit baseball because couldn't work full time, go to college, and play ball).  Married at 24, saved for a house, first kid at 26, paid for 3 great kids to go through college.  Worked my ### off, zero pension, have had to watch the market tank 401K's multiple times.  Paid max into SS for years.  Haven't received a dime for anything yet - but I'm getting taxed plenty to pay for a bunch of stuff.

Yet people think we are leeches and made the world worse off.  Maybe you're right.  Take that year (sabbatical before work?) off this generations feels entitled to traveling the globe to meditate and come back with answers instead of just #####ing about it.  Hopefully you'll be ready to roll up your sleeves before you turn 30.  Doubtful.

Quit tying us to pensions.  Only ones that have those anymore are mostly government related.  Police, fire, city workers, Water and Power, schools/universities, some mandated by unions, etc. Or those that mandate early retirement (pilots).  

I'm all for eliminating pensions and making it an equal playing field for all.  401K's for everyone. 

Seriously hoping the Gen X's, Gen Y's, Millennials will change things for the better.  We'll see who walks the talk vs. just complaining about the hand that they've been dealt.

I know the start/stop years are fuzzy, but you're the same age as my wife, and I don't consider her a boomer at all - she has much more in common with my generation (b 1966) than someone born in 1948.

To me, if you became a teenager in the 70's, you're prettymuch an X'er. 

 

[Godsbrother]

I know the start/stop years are fuzzy, but you're the same age as my wife, and I don't consider her a boomer at all - she has much more in common with my generation (b 1966) than someone born in 1948.

To me, if you became a teenager in the 70's, you're prettymuch an X'er. 

In that case, screw the lazy selfish boomers!!!

 

[Ditkaless Wonders]

The boomer hate on here makes me 

And @Judge Smails you're basically a Gen X'er.  I really consider true boomers to have been born before 1960, before the country started to awaken and slough off the "old fashioned" ways and become more progressive.  

Well then count me a James Daulton approved boomer.

I had a fair share of sex and drugs and rock and roll.  I started working at 14 and have worked at least 40 hours a week every year since 16.  Actually, being a farm kid I started working much earlier but according to social security I started at 14.  I went to college without loans.  I have two undergrad degrees, a masters, and a law degree.   I have been wounded in service of my country and have worked in the public sector by choice, eschewing greater rewards in the private sector, I did this out of a sense of service, a sense that things could be improved from the inside. 

I have raised my family and stayed devoted to my birth family, paying, for the last 11 years, the care of my very ill brother. I have provider harbor and succor to my wife's grandmother during her final two years alive, have taken care, financially of my MIL, and have provided for my wife and daughter in the event I should pass.

I tithe to charities involving primarily education and medical advancements and some environmental issues.  Additionally I give of my time and legal training to some environmental charities.  I help prepare immigrants for citizenship testing and devote a bit of my time to habitat for humanity and to local waterway cleanup and restoration projects.  Some years I do trail restoration in the high country.  

As of yet I have never received welfare, unemployment or any social security payments.  My votes have encouraged responsible policy for solvency of the social security system, but have been for naught.

The neighborhood kids are welcome on my lawn. I generally try to hold my tongue when I hear about safe spaces, micro-aggressions, and how my generation has screwed the world. 

I apologize for Laverne and Shirley being on the air and Battlestar Galactica falling off the air.  I had nothing to do with disco.  I actively fought that scourge.

 

[Ditkaless Wonders]

The boomer hate on here makes me 

And @Judge Smails you're basically a Gen X'er.  I really consider true boomers to have been born before 1960, before the country started to awaken and slough off the "old fashioned" ways and become more progressive.  

Well then count me a James Daulton approved boomer.

I had a fair share of sex and drugs and rock and roll.  I started working at 14 and have worked at least 40 hours a week every year since 16.  Actually, being a farm kid I started working much earlier but according to social security I started at 14.  I went to college without loans.  I have two undergrad degrees, a masters, and a law degree.   I have been wounded in service of my country and have worked in the public sector by choice, eschewing greater rewards in the private sector, I did this out of a sense of service, a sense that things could be improved from the inside. 

I have raised my family and stayed devoted to my birth family, paying, for the last 11 years, the care of my very ill brother. I have provider harbor and succor to my wife's grandmother during her final two years alive, have taken care, financially of my MIL, and have provided for my wife and daughter in the event I should pass.

I tithe to charities involving primarily education and medical advancements and some environmental issues.  Additionally I give of my time and legal training to some environmental charities.  I help prepare immigrants for citizenship testing and devote a bit of my time to habitat for humanity and to local waterway cleanup and restoration projects.  Some years I do trail restoration in the high country.  

As of yet I have never received welfare, unemployment or any social security payments.  My votes have encouraged responsible policy for solvency of the social security system, but have been for naught.

The neighborhood kids are welcome on my lawn. I generally try to hold my tongue when I hear about safe spaces, micro-aggressions, and how my generation has screwed the world. 

I apologize for Laverne and Shirley being on the air and Battlestar Galactica falling off the air.  I had nothing to do with disco.  I actively fought that scourge.

 

[Ditkaless Wonders]

The boomer hate on here makes me 

And @Judge Smails you're basically a Gen X'er.  I really consider true boomers to have been born before 1960, before the country started to awaken and slough off the "old fashioned" ways and become more progressive.  

Well then count me a James Daulton approved boomer.

I had a fair share of sex and drugs and rock and roll.  I started working at 14 and have worked at least 40 hours a week every year since 16.  Actually, being a farm kid I started working much earlier but according to social security I started at 14.  I went to college without loans.  I have two undergrad degrees, a masters, and a law degree.   I have been wounded in service of my country and have worked in the public sector by choice, eschewing greater rewards in the private sector, I did this out of a sense of service, a sense that things could be improved from the inside. 

I have raised my family and stayed devoted to my birth family, paying, for the last 11 years, the care of my very ill brother. I have provider harbor and succor to my wife's grandmother during her final two years alive, have taken care, financially of my MIL, and have provided for my wife and daughter in the event I should pass.

I tithe to charities involving primarily education and medical advancements and some environmental issues.  Additionally I give of my time and legal training to some environmental charities.  I help prepare immigrants for citizenship testing and devote a bit of my time to habitat for humanity and to local waterway cleanup and restoration projects.  Some years I do trail restoration in the high country.  

As of yet I have never received welfare, unemployment or any social security payments.  My votes have encouraged responsible policy for solvency of the social security system, but have been for naught.

The neighborhood kids are welcome on my lawn. I generally try to hold my tongue when I hear about safe spaces, micro-aggressions, and how my generation has screwed the world. 

I apologize for Laverne and Shirley being on the air and Battlestar Galactica falling off the air.  I had nothing to do with disco.  I actively fought that scourge.

 

[roadkill1292]

I apologize for fellow boomers who post in triplicate.

I like disco. Suck it, twerps.

 

[Godsbrother]

I apologize for fellow boomers who post in triplicate.

I like disco. Suck it, twerps.

Ditkaless just proved our excessive nature.  

 

[roadkill1292]

Let me also add that there hasn't been nearly enough criticism of the Silents in here. That bunch hasn't heard a new idea they like since 1950.

 

[Thunderlips]

Well then count me a James Daulton approved boomer.

I had a fair share of sex and drugs and rock and roll.  I started working at 14 and have worked at least 40 hours a week every year since 16.  Actually, being a farm kid I started working much earlier but according to social security I started at 14.  I went to college without loans.  I have two undergrad degrees, a masters, and a law degree.   I have been wounded in service of my country and have worked in the public sector by choice, eschewing greater rewards in the private sector, I did this out of a sense of service, a sense that things could be improved from the inside. 

I have raised my family and stayed devoted to my birth family, paying, for the last 11 years, the care of my very ill brother. I have provider harbor and succor to my wife's grandmother during her final two years alive, have taken care, financially of my MIL, and have provided for my wife and daughter in the event I should pass.

I tithe to charities involving primarily education and medical advancements and some environmental issues.  Additionally I give of my time and legal training to some environmental charities.  I help prepare immigrants for citizenship testing and devote a bit of my time to habitat for humanity and to local waterway cleanup and restoration projects.  Some years I do trail restoration in the high country.  

As of yet I have never received welfare, unemployment or any social security payments.  My votes have encouraged responsible policy for solvency of the social security system, but have been for naught.

The neighborhood kids are welcome on my lawn. I generally try to hold my tongue when I hear about safe spaces, micro-aggressions, and how my generation has screwed the world. 

I apologize for Laverne and Shirley being on the air and Battlestar Galactica falling off the air.  I had nothing to do with disco.  I actively fought that scourge.

I liked Battlestar Galactica.  Why don't you apologize again?

 

[James Daulton]

Now normally I'd use @Ditkaless Wonders 's multiple duplicate posting as an avenue to make fun of the tech challenged boomers.  However, the new bored is befuddling to all.  Word is that Sergey Brin can't figure out how to post here.

 

[Gr00vus]

It's everyone's fault but mine.

 

[wikkidpissah]

Let me also add that there hasn't been nearly enough criticism of the Silents in here. That bunch hasn't heard a new idea they like since 1950.

Tru dat - the Silents should be separated from GG. The folks - Koreas more'n WWs - who rushed to the burbs to celebrate the fascism of lawns and take every goldanged portion of life personally are the real uggos here. The cramming of toothpaste back into their tubes began with them and their Joneses-beating, commie-hatin' pastelformicaMantovani ways are born of wanting life to STOP RIGHT THERE! And it's not just because i got two 90yos here @ home who think everydamthing since Rock&Roll (including me) is a violence visited upon them and that the internet is discrimination and the remote might start a fire and that even though they can't do a single ####in' thing anymore i'm STILL doin' it wrong. No it ain't!!

 

[Judge Smails]

The boomer hate on here makes me 

And @Judge Smails you're basically a Gen X'er.  I really consider true boomers to have been born before 1960, before the country started to awaken and slough off the "old fashioned" ways and become more progressive.  

Hah - more chili for you....

 

[roadkill1292]

Tru dat - the Silents should be separated from GG. The folks - Koreas more'n WWs - who rushed to the burbs to celebrate the fascism of lawns and take every goldanged portion of life personally are the real uggos here. The cramming of toothpaste back into their tubes began with them and their Joneses-beating, commie-hatin' pastelformicaMantovani ways are born of wanting life to STOP RIGHT THERE! And it's not just because i got two 90yos here @ home who think everydamthing since Rock&Roll (including me) is a violence visited upon them and that the internet is discrimination and the remote might start a fire and that even though they can't do a single ####in' thing anymore i'm STILL doin' it wrong. No it ain't!!

I'm almost positive that I passionately agree with everything in this post. I'm just not totally positive because, well, I don't actually understand everything wikkid writes. But put me down as liking this post.

The Silents -- rules makers, rules enforcers, rules followers. What a godawful unimaginative bunch. I bet you Genexers think how cool it was that your sweet old grandma gave you a fiver on your birthday and told you how smart you were while your mean old boomer parents were making fun of you for liking Family Ties. 

 

[Doctor Detroit]

Carrot Top was born in February of 1965.

####! 

 

[lod001]

This is a representation of the current generation. As is this. Yeah the previous generation to them is pumping out some real winners. It will be mad max in about 50 years.

 

[lod001]

Gawd help us all if the idiot on Tucker Carlson Tonight is a representation of today's college student. This kid is a moron. He is getting destroyed and Carlson is actually being kind.

 

[Phil Elliott]

How about not running up pensions so extreme that companies and governments almost go bankrupt, not polluting the planet so badly that coastal cities will shortly disappear, demonizing weed to the point where its still not legal, and worst of all, thanks a lot for giving women the right to vote.  Real genius move that one.

 

[Phil Elliott]

Here are the birth years for each generation:

• iGen, Gen Z or Centennials: Born 1996 and later.
  
• Millennials or Gen Y: Born 1977 to 1995.
  
• Generation X: Born 1965 to 1976.
  
• Baby Boomers: Born 1946 to 1964.
  
• Traditionalists or Silent Generation: Born 1945 and before.
  

Since we are at the end of the alphabet and no one writes any longer, is the next generation Gen Emoji or does the world just end?

 

[lod001]

Here is the level of intelligence of a recent 'graduate' and I do use that term loosely. 

Guy comes in and asks what jobs are available.

Answer 'Police Officer'.

'Ok, I'll take it. Put me down for that'.  

'You have to fill out the application'.

He puts down 'Police Offer'.  These people are so ####### dumb. They can't read, they can't spell. These ####ers cannot even tell time on a clock.

 

[Jamesinaz]

Laughing my ### off.  Funniest part of it is - Boomers DID work hard and #### but fell into the trap of wanting "stuff" and not saving as much as We  should for retirement.  So yeah, we be humping the millennial and Gen Xers good BTW thanks for that first SS check)..  But the hysterical part is - love him or hate him - Trump is more likely to restore some balance financially to the younger people.  Obamacare is nothing but a wealth transfer from the young to the old.  Who gave us that?  Wasn't the GOP.  

 

[Ilov80s]

It must have been nice to have gone to college when a University of Michigan Law School semester cost $240 a semester instead of $28,000

Twenty states suspend people’s professional or driver’s licenses if they fall
behind on loan payments, according to records obtained by The New York Times.

 

[wikkidpissah]

It must have been nice to have gone to college when a University of Michigan Law School semester cost $240 a semester instead of $28,000

Next to dumping the cash equivalent of a year of my father's salary on the dining room table after i'd made a score in showbiz and threatening to burn it if my old man didnt stop harshing me about having quit schooling in 11th grade (he'd announced when i was ten that, due to my testing off the charts & double-promotions, he expected me to be a scholarship boy and would not be creating a college fund), my favorite look of paternal scorn was always when he'd say something to the effect of "i put your sister through school" and i'd point out that his actual contribution was $850 (half of her 4 yrs of Salem State College tuition).