This would be a great topic. I talked to a guy that lives in PA surrounded by Amish. He said Rumspringa is crazy. Legit hotel rooms rented out filled with illegal drugs and every form of debauchery imaginable. Kids get hoped up on pills and race buggies and 3am with naked chicks along for the ride. Apparently the goal of the older generation is to shock their system so bad they realize they like what they had before.
Just my thoughts here. I am mid 50's and have to admit that my generation as a whole has sucked in preparing the now 15-30 year olds for certain parts of life. Obviously there are always exceptions but think this is true for the majority. We let our success make our kids soft. We (wife and I) made a point to try to make kids not just physically, but also emotionally and psychologically grounded and strong but it was a constant battle against the influence of their peers. Their generation is on average, really soft and it's our fault as parents.
That’s something I was thinking about the other day. When you think of noteworthy congress people the only Gen Xer that comes to the forefront is MTG. Most of the left and right firebrands are millennials. The statesman are all Boomers or even silent (RETIRE!!!), Kevin McCarthy is literally on the Boomer/X line.
Is there a set time for Rumspringa? If so that sounds like a great Bachelor/Divorce party destination. I would be a alcohol god to those no zipper wearing kids.
I know I'm not the one coming off as crazy on this topic. All I've said is that they're not evil, stupid, and lazy as a whole. They're 10s of millions of individuals. Many are great. Many suck. Just like any other group that size. For every negative you could list, I could list a positive.
Just so you know there are physiological reasons that make it challenging, in general, for older people to understand new viewpionts/change their mind. Long story short, their mind simply isn't as malleable as it used to be. So it isn't obstinance in most cases, it is part of aging.
It's certainly fine to accept some, or the even the majority, of the blame. But in the end, people have to accept responsibility for themselves. This is kind of the crux of the entire argument. Some people just want to point at anyone else and say "it's their fault" because they just can't accept that they may not be perfect either.
Not quite. They "paid" for it when the ratio of workers to retirees was great. Then, when they are the retirees and the ratio sucks, they ***** and moan and mooch off their kids.
The Boomers, by virtue of being the single largest voting block, have been catered and pandered to by both Parties for decades. That is not the same as other generations. Remember they are not just another generation, they are an outsized one. They had political power that no other generation has had, and they squandered it.
Would other generations have been better had they had that outsized power? Maybe, maybe not. If not, that gen would deserve the same criticism that the Boomers have EARNED.
Gif search is really letting me down by not coming up with the hot dog costume guy here.
Damn, then she definitely won't see it here. Might I suggest other forms of flattery. For some reason the movie Kingpin comes to mind...
If that's the best you've got, I don't think gif search is what's letting you down.
In all due respect. What exactly are we boomers being blamed for here ? The vast vast vast majority simply worked hard, played by the rules we were handed, paid our taxes and tried to give our families a better life than we had (which, in retrospect was probably our biggest mistake) WITHOUT blaming the previous generation for all of our problems.
The only problem I have with that is TP USA. I hate guys like Charlie Kirk and Ben Shapiro talking shlt about real men and tough men. You know damn well those guys don’t even cut their own grass.
There was no need to blame the previous generation. You know, the greatest generation. They created a model society of white picket fences.
your pictures skipped the Boomer generation and GenX completely...
But you didn't "pay your taxes" you slashed taxes dramatically for the rich.
Taxes were too high. Western European countries cut marginal tax rates too. Funding for most things is still up. What programs do you think have been cut too much? We spend more on public education than almost all other countries and more on majority non-white public schools than on majority white public schools, and we spend about the same amount of our gdp on social programs as Canada does. Smart, rich people do know how to arrange outcomes in their favor. Smart, rich social workers, for instance, know how to get jobs in government and with non-profits that focus on helping the poor that pay a lot more in salary and benefits to them than the poor get out of those programs.
"responsible for today's hard time" O.K. help me out and I'm being serious. Poe's Law?
According to LordMcFvckethead "every issue we have in this country" is a result of us Boomers. He hasn't given any specifics in any post just throwing out generalities blaming everybody that he assumes to be a Boomer.
1st Why must you stereotype ? I'm not bitching about anything. 2nd Well you got me on the second part I voted for Ronald Reagan over Jimmy Carter in '80' and Walter Mondale in '84'. Choices I'll regret to my dying day **** .
My comment was just a general comment on aging. I'm very appreciative of my parents and what they had to do to allow me to stand on their shoulders and take the next step.
That's not a boomer problem, it's a PEOPLE problem. It will never go away either.
Probably true. And all the problems this country had when boomers were younger were directly related to "Greatest Generation's" actions and inactions. And all the country's problems next will be directly related to us Gen Xer's actions and inactions, then the Millenials. That's kind of how it goes. It's easy to romanticize, but the greatest generation fought and won a horrific war the lost generation was responsible for getting them into then themselves caused the calamity of Vietnam and the reactions to the Civil Rights Movement. On and on it goes.
