Baby Boomers

Right said:
Not really. We were never close, but we talk on the phone more or less annually. We always talk politics but more for the comedy of it than anything. He and I have both done well financially and have taken it upon ourselves to establish a college fund for one of our sister's grandsons, about to graduate high school, whose father was a deadbeat and died of a drug overdose last year.
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You are both excellent people.
 
It's kinda interesting how the generations are defined. Some sources list me as a millenial others as a Gen X. Though my outlook doesn't exactly reflect what you would expect from either of those generations.

I have great hopes for gen z. And someone earlier said that they will seriously change identity politics. I totally agree.
 
Cawacky tried to be slick.

Used some fake progressive opinion piece that HE agrees with to try to bash boomers.

LMAOOOOOOOOOOOO
 
As Baby boomers came of age in the 70's, they faced quadrupling gas prices, skyrocketing utility costs and inflation, and 21% mortgage rates.

And IIRC, in the 70's, only 25% could afford college, compared to 45% today.
 
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Althea said:
The draft! These kids don't know what it was like dreading your 18th bday. Every morning before school, I was required to make my bed. My radio would be on, and at the top of the hour you would get sports scores, the weather, and the numbers of U.S/Viet Cong deaths.
It was part of 'normal' routine in this country.
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I remember that too.
 
noise said:
^ the fun part was the draft lottery.. waiting around to see if you got the lucky number
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Yea...my father volunteered the draft in the mid 50’s because of the lottery. If you were in the lottery, but not drafted, you had a hard time finding work. So a lot of guys “volunteered” the draft. That way you only had serve two years vs four if you volunteered or were drafted.
 
TTQ64 said:
Cawacky tried to be slick.

Used some fake progressive opinion piece that HE agrees with to try to bash boomers.

LMAOOOOOOOOOOOO
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Oh he’s stirring the pot to be sure. Wacko likes to play devils advocate. He also trolls a bit. This is one of them. He wanted to spin the dynamic to an intergenerational one with the expected outcome. We A.A.’s (Ancient Americans) turned on the ungreatful little bastards.
 
katzgar said:
Some of us went to college
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I’m lucky. I came in at the tail end of the baby boom. I missed the draft by 5 years but when they ended the draft in 73 they also ended draft registration which wasn’t resumed till 79 I believe. After that it wasn’t an issue, and hasn’t been, since they ended the draft.
 
Mott the Hoople said:
Oh he’s stirring the pot to be sure. Wacko likes to play devils advocate. He also trolls a bit. This is one of them. He wanted to spin the dynamic to an intergenerational one with the expected outcome. We A.A.’s (Ancient Americans) turned on the ungreatful little bastards.
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I actually don't like to play the boomer, genx, millennial game.

When you think about it, it is just a fake sociological distinction probably made up by some losers in the media trying to think of ways to put a twist on pop culture and current events; a rhetorical device to make their crap stories they write seem more interesting by inserting so fake, contrived perception of conflict.

I work with people of all ages, from 20s to 70s. Trying to caricature people into neat little generational buckets doesn't actually happen in the real world.

The only real difference is people my age like cool ass music, The Mighty Zep, Black Sabbath, Floyd, Grateful Dead, Doors, Creedence, Aerosmith, U2, et al. I mean even up to Smashing Pumpkins and Green Day music was still pretty cool. But have you heard the crap music that has been coming out in the last 20 years? It's a nightmare, I tell ya!
 
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