Were Boomers the Worst Generation?

At least we didn't put Obama in the white house twice...

Have you considered voluntary euthanasia?

Have you a job?

Have you TRIED to improve things?

Methinks thou doth protest too much.

Not a Boomer wrote:

Boom boom, out go the lights wrote:

It's ironic that you use the internet, created by baby boomers, to complain that they have done nothing.

Are you sure you meant to use the word "ironic?"

Not only did I mean it, but you have added to the irony with this question. You are like the gift that keeps on giving.

We didn't ask for medals and trophies just for playing. Our Boomer parents just gave them to us thinking we'd feel all warm and fuzzy inside. We knew the medal for participation was a joke and knew we didn't win anything other than trying hard. Now our Boomer parents think we are entitled brats in our 20s because of it?

No wrote:

At least we didn't put Obama in the white house twice...

DAMN YOU OBAMA!!!

No wrote:

At least we didn't put Obama in the white house twice...

You do realize Obama is a boomer.....

Every generation thinks the one that preceded them was the worst ever. Give things a few decades and you'll be on the other end of the stick you're waving now.

ryan foreman wrote:

No. The "greatest generation" was the worst. Seriously. Somebody has to say. They are easily the most entitled generation of all time. If anyone wants to debate that I will win. It will not even be close.

Well, they do have that whole, WINNING WWII, thing in their back packet, oh yeah overcoming The Great Depression, and then coming home from war, creating an economic super power and enacting the Civil Rights Act. so yeah.. there's all that.

lol - a generalization, but most from that period that I have come across are extremely backwards in relation to racial and religious differences.also, pretty hard to discount the BOOMers contributions to science. most weren't a part of that process, but serious progress was made in the mid to late 1900s.-a millenial

aquafina wrote:

[quote]ryan foreman wrote:

. . . and enacting the Civil Rights Act.

Hay, not all Boomers are Liberal.

theSausageKING wrote:

lol - a generalization, but most from that period that I have come across are extremely backwards in relation to racial and religious differences.

also, pretty hard to discount the BOOMers contributions to science. most weren't a part of that process, but serious progress was made in the mid to late 1900s.

-a millenial

aquafina wrote:

[quote]ryan foreman wrote:

. . . and enacting the Civil Rights Act.

But you can't deny that it's the leaders involved were all of the WWII generation, their children were the Boomers.

You can try to discredit all you want, but they did do ALL those things.

Maybe it's just a happy accident of history that the rest of us in the USA haven't had to face a Great Depression & WWII. It's not like they wanted those two things, but they didn't whine- they acted and won.

We can only hope that we would react in a similar manner.

I'm a Boomer, born at the tail-end of when Boomers were supposed to be born. I think Boomers blew it for a lot of people, including subsequent generations. Joe Queenan's book "Balsamic Dreams" is a funny skewering of this generation.

That said, as noted earlier, the people who did the most damage were not Boomers.

Nixon -- not a Boomer.

Gerald Ford wasn't a great prez, nor a bad one. Not a boomer.

Carter -- not a Boomer.

Reagan -- first president to put the U.S. in debt, not a boomer.

George Bush I -- Not a boomer, horrific prez.

Clinton -- Not a boomer, first guy to relax financial regulations, thus the impending crash of 2008. Bad prez.

George W. -- Might be an early Boomer, awful prez, but non-Boomer Dick Chaney was pulling the strings.

Obama -- Boomer and not a good president.

So perhaps one, maybe two guys of this awful run of presidents, was a boomer. The rest of these clowns put in regulations (or lackthereof) that has caused debt and corruption today.

When Gerald Ford (IMO) is perhaps the best of this list, we have problems.

Wondering in the West wrote:

The rest of these clowns put in regulations (or lackthereof) that has caused debt and corruption today.

The regulations and debt are the result of acts of Congress.

Not a Boomer wrote:

of course I mean in modern times... but I think they might have been the sleaziest, laziest, most self-centered generation of all time.

What did they do that was good?

"In other words, if most Greatest Generation Americans had their way, American life would have remained frozen in the '50s. They were not the agents of change that built the far more inclusive, tolerant, free and equal America we have today.

That task fell to the boomers, who almost immediately started breaking down the restrictive codes and repressive convictions of the Greatest Generation's era. From the moment pollsters began recording their attitudes in the 1960s, boomers stood diametrically opposed to their elders on the core issues of race, women, religious pluralism, homosexuality and environmental protection. They saw an America that was not living up to its ideals, and they set about to change it."

Clinton proposed the removal of regulations and correct, Congress (most non-boomers) approved it. Congress did not come up with the idea on their own to remove regulations, that was Clinton. GW Bush also could've proposed removing those Clinton ease-ups, but kept them in place.

While Boomers and all generations have their faults, it's pretty easy to research that mostly non-boomers put a lot of bad things in place.

* Not sure who allowed the rise of bad rap and worse tattoos that is plaguing the U.S.