- THE SHALLOWEST GENERATION – The Baby Boom Generation will never be mistaken for the Greatest Generation that survived the Great Depression and defeated evil in a World War that killed 72 million people. I hate to tell you Boomers, but putting a yellow ribbon on the back of your $50,000 SUV is not sacrifice. Our claim to fame is living way beyond our means for the last three decades, to the point where we have virtually bankrupted our capitalist system. Baby Boomers have been occupying the White House for the last sixteen years. The majority of Congress is Baby Boomers. The CEOs and top executives of Wall Street firms are Baby Boomers. The media is dominated by Baby Boom executives and on-air stars. We have no one to blame but ourselves for the current predicament. Blaming Franklin Roosevelt or Lyndon Johnson for our dire situation is a cop out. Baby Boomers had the time, power, and ability to change our course. We have chosen to leave the heavy lifting to future generations in order to live the good life today.
- Doom-mongering: A 2009 Internet Media Plan – "Get out of categories such as politics to which advertisers are averse. That's easier for us to say since we spun off Wonkette earlier this year. And outfits such as the Huffington Post and most big-city newspapers—defined by their political coverage—will have difficulty redefining themselves. But media groups cannot afford in the current environment to fund their most noble missions; they should leave that to public-spirited non-profits such as Pro Publica."
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More bad stuff about baby boomers…My first thought is…what about this current growing generation who has every electronic known to man, designer everything…no respect for authority, no respect for parents, total self entitlement..get everything….At least most baby boomers, worked, did not have everything they wanted,,,,,and had respect for authority.
Carol, surely we can agree that GenX and Millennials are products of the Boomers, both in terms of their parents and of the consequences of Boomer’s in leadership positions.
Boomer’s market the goodies that today’s generation covets. Boomer’s in both public and private spheres have either lost or never earned their respect.
As a GenXer who worked since he was 15-years old, and earned everything he has, I am offended by sweeping generalizations. Plainly put, by any metric you choose to look at, for the first time in American history, the younger generation is inheriting a world in worse shape than their elder generation received it.