For the babyboomers among us

[PK]

Turn up your sound and enjoy.

http://www.newsday.com/news/opinion/ny- ... 6393.blurb

[EastStang]

I emailed it to my other geezing friends.

[Buckethead]

Outstanding!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[that's great raplh]

indeed

but the looming pension crisis will make subprime look like a cakewalk

[smupony94]

indeed

but the looming pension crisis will make subprime look like a cakewalk

Hope will always be free

[couch 'em]

The babyboomers are responsible for every negative influence in the US since WWII.

[smupony94]

The babyboomers are responsible for every negative influence in the US since WWII.

You are not the greatest generation

[abezontar]

Did anyone here go to Woodstock? Does it deserve the reverence with which everyone speaks of it? Did it actually accomplish anything worthwhile?

[mrydel]

I was one final exam from going. I almost dropped the class in order to go, but decided to take the exam. It was a pretty amazing deal. Many illegitimate children were conceived I am sure.

It accomplished as much as the Boulevard, only, better music, more alcohol and drugs, louder and 250,000 times higher attendance.

[couch 'em]

What happened to the baby boomers? They went from Woodstock in their youth to a world where fraternities have to have licensed bartenders on the boulevard and the TABC is arresting people in bars for being drunk now that they are old and have power.

[smupony94]

Mrydel and JT screwed it up for all of us that are not men yet

[mrydel]

Because of Woodstock, and other such events, coupled with our pagan like lifestyle, we do not remember our youth.

[smupony94]

[bubba pony]

The babyboomers are responsible for every negative influence in the US since WWII.

yea, like passing the civil rights amendment in '64
dropping the voting age from 21 to 18.
ending the Vietnam war after 58,000 of use died.
we even dropped drinking age from 21 to 18 but you guys couldn't handle your liquor so had to raise it back to 21.
got rid of the draft and an all volunteer army.

we accomplished a great deal but we seemed to have failed to teach history to some who take their liberties for granted.

you should have been there, it was everything you heard about and than some.

[ponyte]

The babyboomers are responsible for every negative influence in the US since WWII.

yea, like passing the civil rights amendment in '64
dropping the voting age from 21 to 18.
ending the Vietnam war after 58,000 of use died.
we even dropped drinking age from 21 to 18 but you guys couldn't handle your liquor so had to raise it back to 21.
got rid of the draft and an all volunteer army.

we accomplished a great deal but we seemed to have failed to teach history to some who take their liberties for granted.

you should have been there, it was everything you heard about and than some.

Please, let us assume that the boomer generation began in 1945 (actually, 1946 is the usual date given as the beginning of the boomers) If so, in 1964, the oldest boomers would have been 19. It wasn't until the 26th amendment was adopted in July 1971 that the voting age dropped to 18. Thus, not one single boomer voted for the 'Civil Rights Amendment". But wait, it gets even better. There was never a Civil Rights Amendment. There was a Civil Rights Act of 1964. A mere act not an amendment. But maybe if the Boomers can fail to teach history the next generation will believe it is an amendment and not a mere act.

In fact, not one Boomer cast a single vote for any representative or Senator that passed the Medicare Act of 1965. It is strange that the Boomers, through the power of their economic success, have done the majority of financing Medicare and yet didn't have a voice in its creation. And the future of Medicare is in doubt right as the Boomers become eligible. What a nice ironic twist to the program.

Indeed, the Boomers can claim success such as dropping the voting age to 18. Perhaps the end of the draft and formation of a mercenary military as well.

The Boomers were part of the significant economic machine that finally brought down the Soviet Union.

And the Boomers brought us some great 70s clothing and Disco.