"My children are all actually doing very well, much better than I did at their age."
And what productive activity do your children do? What do they make or build? How do they improve our society? As a boomer I never had it easy.So what. I can't complain. I am a first generation American success. I put in 10 hours a day sweat and toil and went home, Worked the foundry's and mills as a yougin'. Late 60's-70's' That was when we had factories around here. $4-5 bucks an hour + piece work + overtime. Good money if you wanted the work.Hard and dirty. So what? Second and third shift. The iron stack ran 24/7. Casting iron pillow blocks/ hydraulic cylinders by the millions. We built the world. Try to get some 21st century soy boy to do that in 100 degree July heat. He'd rather code for a living.Maybe play video games, or watch a little porn. Soft men /pansies/ destroy the world and I see them everywhere. These C@@TS are in for a rude awaking
And if you want to really piss me off. Unload your grocery shopping cart and leave it in the middle of the parking lot when the corral is only 50 feet away. You lazy fat fuck.
I find that it's usually some young, physically un-impaired, usually female, lazy twit that does that. I've seen Boomers who could barely walk take their cart to the cart corral. And I remember my late mother--at 90-years-old, with arthritis, and slowly dying of terminal lung cancer, but still completely coherent and able to drive her car--refusing to park in a Handicapped parking space (even though she had a disabled placard that she jokingly called a "gimp sticker") because she said that somebody else might need that Handicapped parking space a lot more than she did. She was part of the Greatest Generation--you know, that generation that survived the Great Depression and World War II. Tough? You bet--not like today's young wusses.
I have three girlsтАФ a nurse, an event planner, and a small business owner. They all work hardтАФ40-60 hours a week. They all make decent money. TheyтАЩre in their 30тАЩs. I made them get jobs at 16 so they could see how the world works. TheyтАЩre saving for retirement already. Their biggest problems are infertility and the cost of housing. Technology makes their lives easier than my mid-life ever was. TheyтАЩre good people. Only one out of the three gets whatтАЩs really going on in the world. Another wants to hear absolutely nothing about it and the other is just trying to get through life in these crazy times. At least theyтАЩre not crazy libs. I feel badly for them all. What a terrible time to be a human being on earth.
No one can take your own standing on matters away from you except yourself. The judgmental negativity of the poster to whom i posed the question is only harming himself by what you characterize as hostility provoked by fear and worry. Faith in action fostering hope is the antidote.
American young men have become girly-boys thanks to colleges, DEI, PC bullshit, Hollywood and young women ,who have been indoctrinated that they need NO ONE, and hardly a man. And are basically 2000 years from the women we knew growing up. Man up, America
Oldest is a pilot, FedEx international, second runs a ski area in Aspin Colorado, #3 graduated with an EE degree, has worked several companies, paid off two houses, works at a startup, something to do with factory maintenance automatic monitoring, I don't quite understand. Youngest graduated with a CS degree, runs a team for a major banking outfit, he recently was accepted at Georgia tech in the masters program. We raised them on an auto mechanics and steel sales salarys. I am very proud of all of them. Their mom deserves all the credit. If it was just me they would probably be all bums.
I'm also at the end of the Boomer age range. From my observation-- if you were born earlier, you had more opportunities. If you were born at the end of the cycle, your opportunities were much more limited, since the older Boomers had already taken up the jobs. Plus... they seemed to be reluctant to retire. Demographics.
I find it generally ironic when some individuals find it attractive to use collectivist ideology in criticizing any group based on non-fungible characteristicsтАжтАжnot only does such behavior tend to be hypocritical but also it limits oneтАЩs enjoyment of what individuals can bring to bearтАжтАжworth noting that тАЬboomersтАЭ experienced events that are only historical events for younger peopleтАж.JFK, Malcolm X, RFK, MLKтАжтАжall dusty history that had real impacts on the lives of individuals living thenтАж..it would probably have a much more positive effect if all individuals of all generations would unite to face off against the really evil actors in our country
Well, remember that the flower children of the 60s became the Me generation of the 70s. The Age of Aquarius was a joke. Boomers took the start up capital of the тАЬgreatest generationтАЭ and built it up. Then the government idiots decided that we needed to offshore manufacturing during the 90s and beyond. The economy switched to service and finance to generate тАЬwealthтАЭ, that isnтАЩt wealth. 2005, JHK wrote TLE, sending out danger messages about the emptiness of the Boomer fiasco. We are still discussing the fiasco today.
I as well am a boomer, tail end of that generation. Since I was a teenager I have thought of boomers as arrogant & smug.
My children are all actually doing very well, much better than I did at their age. However I am concerned about my grandchildren.
"My children are all actually doing very well, much better than I did at their age."
And what productive activity do your children do? What do they make or build? How do they improve our society? As a boomer I never had it easy.So what. I can't complain. I am a first generation American success. I put in 10 hours a day sweat and toil and went home, Worked the foundry's and mills as a yougin'. Late 60's-70's' That was when we had factories around here. $4-5 bucks an hour + piece work + overtime. Good money if you wanted the work.Hard and dirty. So what? Second and third shift. The iron stack ran 24/7. Casting iron pillow blocks/ hydraulic cylinders by the millions. We built the world. Try to get some 21st century soy boy to do that in 100 degree July heat. He'd rather code for a living.Maybe play video games, or watch a little porn. Soft men /pansies/ destroy the world and I see them everywhere. These C@@TS are in for a rude awaking
And if you want to really piss me off. Unload your grocery shopping cart and leave it in the middle of the parking lot when the corral is only 50 feet away. You lazy fat fuck.
I find that it's usually some young, physically un-impaired, usually female, lazy twit that does that. I've seen Boomers who could barely walk take their cart to the cart corral. And I remember my late mother--at 90-years-old, with arthritis, and slowly dying of terminal lung cancer, but still completely coherent and able to drive her car--refusing to park in a Handicapped parking space (even though she had a disabled placard that she jokingly called a "gimp sticker") because she said that somebody else might need that Handicapped parking space a lot more than she did. She was part of the Greatest Generation--you know, that generation that survived the Great Depression and World War II. Tough? You bet--not like today's young wusses.
God bless her. Inspiring woman.
Nothing worse than walking out and someone has left the cart free to run into your car.
Yeah that pisses me off too.
Where I live the state leagalized weed about ten years ago.
Now you get a contact high getting out of your car at the grocery store.
Now the government is the dealer,
"Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive."
~ Mao Zedong
Perfect!!!!! We keep building arms, China just sends out more emigres and economic promises. The MIC in this country needs to die.
I have three girlsтАФ a nurse, an event planner, and a small business owner. They all work hardтАФ40-60 hours a week. They all make decent money. TheyтАЩre in their 30тАЩs. I made them get jobs at 16 so they could see how the world works. TheyтАЩre saving for retirement already. Their biggest problems are infertility and the cost of housing. Technology makes their lives easier than my mid-life ever was. TheyтАЩre good people. Only one out of the three gets whatтАЩs really going on in the world. Another wants to hear absolutely nothing about it and the other is just trying to get through life in these crazy times. At least theyтАЩre not crazy libs. I feel badly for them all. What a terrible time to be a human being on earth.
WhatтАЩs with the hostile posturing?
Mourning whatтАЩs been lost. Hostility vents the worry and fear for humanityтАЩs future.
No one can take your own standing on matters away from you except yourself. The judgmental negativity of the poster to whom i posed the question is only harming himself by what you characterize as hostility provoked by fear and worry. Faith in action fostering hope is the antidote.
American young men have become girly-boys thanks to colleges, DEI, PC bullshit, Hollywood and young women ,who have been indoctrinated that they need NO ONE, and hardly a man. And are basically 2000 years from the women we knew growing up. Man up, America
Oldest is a pilot, FedEx international, second runs a ski area in Aspin Colorado, #3 graduated with an EE degree, has worked several companies, paid off two houses, works at a startup, something to do with factory maintenance automatic monitoring, I don't quite understand. Youngest graduated with a CS degree, runs a team for a major banking outfit, he recently was accepted at Georgia tech in the masters program. We raised them on an auto mechanics and steel sales salarys. I am very proud of all of them. Their mom deserves all the credit. If it was just me they would probably be all bums.
As far as how they "improve society" I don't know how does any individual? They bring in honey to the beehive, how about that?
I'm also at the end of the Boomer age range. From my observation-- if you were born earlier, you had more opportunities. If you were born at the end of the cycle, your opportunities were much more limited, since the older Boomers had already taken up the jobs. Plus... they seemed to be reluctant to retire. Demographics.
I find it generally ironic when some individuals find it attractive to use collectivist ideology in criticizing any group based on non-fungible characteristicsтАжтАжnot only does such behavior tend to be hypocritical but also it limits oneтАЩs enjoyment of what individuals can bring to bearтАжтАжworth noting that тАЬboomersтАЭ experienced events that are only historical events for younger peopleтАж.JFK, Malcolm X, RFK, MLKтАжтАжall dusty history that had real impacts on the lives of individuals living thenтАж..it would probably have a much more positive effect if all individuals of all generations would unite to face off against the really evil actors in our country
That's because the rich boomer is a myth, yeah there are a few but like most in whatever "generation" die with not much.
Your kids are lucky if you have a pot to piss in & a window to throw it out of to pass down to them when it's time to shuffle off this mortal coi.
Well, remember that the flower children of the 60s became the Me generation of the 70s. The Age of Aquarius was a joke. Boomers took the start up capital of the тАЬgreatest generationтАЭ and built it up. Then the government idiots decided that we needed to offshore manufacturing during the 90s and beyond. The economy switched to service and finance to generate тАЬwealthтАЭ, that isnтАЩt wealth. 2005, JHK wrote TLE, sending out danger messages about the emptiness of the Boomer fiasco. We are still discussing the fiasco today.
IOW, the collusion between corporate America and its Deep State have just about done this country in.