Baby Boomers’ Bust
by The men who served in World War II were the greatest generation, but it is ironic that their children, the baby boomers, had it too easy. Veterans of the war wanted their children to have the best and the result is a generation of spoiled and lazy power brokers who may spell the end to American government and society as we have known it.
All this, added to the absence of a real news media which seems to have been replaced by celebrity reality shows and propaganda, does not bode well for us. I fear that we may lose (if we haven’t already lost) the United States that was developing along the lines of thinking of our founding fathers (one must read beyond propaganda and profit motivated “voter guidelines” in order to be informed). Try reading the actual written words of Jefferson, Franklin, John Locke and Thomas Paine, just to name a few. Read the actual recorded (verified as the original) discussions during the constitutional convention. Groups and individuals are actually misquoting many of the words and distorting the intent of the great and highly informed and intelligent men who developed the foundations for United States Government.
We discuss personalities and popularity during our most important presidential election since the Civil War. In the meantime, our nation implodes. The top one percent now has ninety-nine per cent of the nations wealth. They want the remaining one per cent, currently held by ninety-nine percent of the population. They are blinded by greed and indulgence and many of us one per centers may hear someone cry: “Hey! We’re outa’ beer.” Those may be the last words heard from a once free people.
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Post Commentjo oliver
On September 19, 2008 at 1:11 am
One word- Beautiful!
sandra
On September 30, 2008 at 9:53 pm
my generation, baby boomers, were spoiled some, but what we did to spoil our children is unforgivable. we are on the small acerage farm and cant get a young helper to work. there is not one young adult i know of that is willing to work on a farm, or anything else that might grow a callous or produce sweat. the ipod generation is trying its best to do as little as possible and expect to make a salery matching a seasoned enployee. they leave high school and take a few classes and hit the job market with the idea that food is from the supermarket. the tie to the earth is so broken that i worry the outcome of even a small social setback. if the grocery trucks fail to make the cities for even a short time the wreck would shut down cities nationwide. i wonder how insane the goverment is that it would be off on a spending spree with the world economy and be unawear of the possibility of its own downfall. there are no checks and balances for a country that devalued its strongest ali, the family on the farm farm.
homelyface
On November 7, 2008 at 9:48 pm
I was thinking last night about the election and how we will have after 16 years, a post baby-boomer in office. I’m about the same age as Obama and we could be considered to fall at the tail end of the boomer nation. However, I’ve always identified with the neXt generation most likely as a result of my childhood environment and life experiences. For years I’ve wondered how a whole generation can so thoroughly turn their backs on such noble early ideals that were born in the 60’s and turn into a generation of “me first” consumers of excess and greed. Anyways, I Googled “baby boomer bust” just out of curiosity and ended up on this page. You’ve identified many of the symptoms of boomer culture and Sandra’s comment on the “ipod generation” resonates with me also. My younger brother and many of his friends are exactly as she describes in that they have a sense of entitlement to work little, yet receive a kings ransom and of course, the perks. Good story. I know that there are many books out there on the booomer culture, but I wonder if there are any that really put it all together.
Christian Padron
On August 13, 2009 at 9:50 pm
homelyface you are so full of it. the 60s was not about “noble ideals” it was hedonism. Boomers didn’t protest vietnam because they were noble – you did it because you were cowards. Boomers did not promote free love because they were loving but because they justed wanted to have fun with no responsibility. Boomers did not go against the establishment because they wanted to make the world better – you did it because you did not want personal responsibility and hard work. Boomers have always been self centered and slefish – the 60s was about hedonism and then you turned into republicans in the 80s because of greed. By the time my generation takes over there will be nothing left