Letter from a Baby Boomer to Millennials.
05-12-2013, 05:15 AM
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Letter from a Baby Boomer to Millennials.
Interesting read and spot on .
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2013/05/09/open-letter-from-baby-boomer-to-millennials-apology-and-some-advice/
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http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2013/05/09/open-letter-from-baby-boomer-to-millennials-apology-and-some-advice/
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05-12-2013, 06:02 AM
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Re: Letter from a Baby Boomer to Millennials
I'm a boomer and I don't remember electing Patrick Dorinson to be my spokesman.
Who exactly is saying this besides talk radio hosts or pundits trying to sell an article? I've never said it. I don't know anyone in my personal life who has.
Things are the way they are today because the electorate can no longer vote
against the interests of Goldman Sachs, Boeing, Exxon/Mobil, General Electric, Bank
of America, Walmart or the Kock brothers.
Blaming a whole generation of boomers because the oligarchs have moved our manufacturing base overseas is just silly and if you buy into this, your corporate overlords have been successful in making you take your eye off the ball and
scapegoat a vulnerable target while trying to cut their Social Security.
It is not surprising that a Libertarian came up with this pap.
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So the next time you hear Baby Boomers castigate your generation for being spoiled or entitled, just roll your eyes and shake your head while you remind them that a few short decades ago they were in your shoes being accused of the very same thing...
Things are the way they are today because the electorate can no longer vote
against the interests of Goldman Sachs, Boeing, Exxon/Mobil, General Electric, Bank
of America, Walmart or the Kock brothers.
Blaming a whole generation of boomers because the oligarchs have moved our manufacturing base overseas is just silly and if you buy into this, your corporate overlords have been successful in making you take your eye off the ball and
scapegoat a vulnerable target while trying to cut their Social Security.
It is not surprising that a Libertarian came up with this pap.
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05-12-2013, 06:19 AM
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Whatcha got against Libertarians?
05-12-2013, 06:35 AM
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Re: Letter from a Baby Boomer to Millennials
They don't seem to be grounded in reality.
While constantly bad-mouthing everything government, they send their
kids to government funded schools, drive on government funded roads,
use government funded services like police and fire fighters, draw Social
Security and Medicare, rely on government to inspect their meat and
water for nasty bacteria, use innovations like the government created
internet - like right now, for instance.
Yet, in their eyes, the government is always the problem. Go figure.
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While constantly bad-mouthing everything government, they send their
kids to government funded schools, drive on government funded roads,
use government funded services like police and fire fighters, draw Social
Security and Medicare, rely on government to inspect their meat and
water for nasty bacteria, use innovations like the government created
internet - like right now, for instance.
Yet, in their eyes, the government is always the problem. Go figure.
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05-12-2013, 06:43 AM
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They don't seem to be grounded in reality.
While constantly bad-mouthing everything government, they send their
kids to government funded schools, drive on government funded roads,
use government funded services like police and fire fighters, draw Social
Security and Medicare, rely on government to inspect their meat and
water for nasty bacteria, use innovations like the government created
internet - like right now, for instance.
Yet, in their eyes, the government is always the problem. Go figure.
.
While constantly bad-mouthing everything government, they send their
kids to government funded schools, drive on government funded roads,
use government funded services like police and fire fighters, draw Social
Security and Medicare, rely on government to inspect their meat and
water for nasty bacteria, use innovations like the government created
internet - like right now, for instance.
Yet, in their eyes, the government is always the problem. Go figure.
.
05-12-2013, 08:29 AM
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I'm a boomer and I don't remember electing Patrick Dorinson to be my spokesman.
Who exactly is saying this besides talk radio hosts or pundits trying to sell an article? I've never said it. I don't know anyone in my personal life who has.
Things are the way they are today because the electorate can no longer vote
against the interests of Goldman Sachs, Boeing, Exxon/Mobil, General Electric, Bank
of America, Walmart or the Kock brothers.
Blaming a whole generation of boomers because the oligarchs have moved our manufacturing base overseas is just silly and if you buy into this, your corporate overlords have been successful in making you take your eye off the ball and
scapegoat a vulnerable target while trying to cut their Social Security.
It is not surprising that a Libertarian came up with this pap.
.
Who exactly is saying this besides talk radio hosts or pundits trying to sell an article? I've never said it. I don't know anyone in my personal life who has.
Things are the way they are today because the electorate can no longer vote
against the interests of Goldman Sachs, Boeing, Exxon/Mobil, General Electric, Bank
of America, Walmart or the Kock brothers.
Blaming a whole generation of boomers because the oligarchs have moved our manufacturing base overseas is just silly and if you buy into this, your corporate overlords have been successful in making you take your eye off the ball and
scapegoat a vulnerable target while trying to cut their Social Security.
It is not surprising that a Libertarian came up with this pap.
.
Oh and you forgot "Big Oil" and Halliburton.
05-12-2013, 09:23 AM
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They don't seem to be grounded in reality.
While constantly bad-mouthing everything government, they send their
kids to government funded schools, drive on government funded roads,
use government funded services like police and fire fighters, draw Social
Security and Medicare, rely on government to inspect their meat and
water for nasty bacteria, use innovations like the government created
internet - like right now, for instance.
Yet, in their eyes, the government is always the problem. Go figure.
.
While constantly bad-mouthing everything government, they send their
kids to government funded schools, drive on government funded roads,
use government funded services like police and fire fighters, draw Social
Security and Medicare, rely on government to inspect their meat and
water for nasty bacteria, use innovations like the government created
internet - like right now, for instance.
Yet, in their eyes, the government is always the problem. Go figure.
.
The internet was invented by the government and then locked away in drawer for 20 or 30 years. How much farther would along would we be?
The government isn't always the problem. Most of the time it is, but not always.
I agree with you on the radio show--pithy generalizations. Not much to like there.
WW
05-12-2013, 10:27 AM
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They don't seem to be grounded in reality.
While constantly bad-mouthing everything government, they send their
kids to government funded schools, drive on government funded roads,
use government funded services like police and fire fighters, draw Social
Security and Medicare, rely on government to inspect their meat and
water for nasty bacteria, use innovations like the government created
internet - like right now, for instance.
Yet, in their eyes, the government is always the problem. Go figure.
.
While constantly bad-mouthing everything government, they send their
kids to government funded schools, drive on government funded roads,
use government funded services like police and fire fighters, draw Social
Security and Medicare, rely on government to inspect their meat and
water for nasty bacteria, use innovations like the government created
internet - like right now, for instance.
Yet, in their eyes, the government is always the problem. Go figure.
.
Its okay, no one is perfect.
05-12-2013, 01:59 PM
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They don't seem to be grounded in reality.
While constantly bad-mouthing everything government, they send their
kids to government funded schools, drive on government funded roads,
use government funded services like police and fire fighters, draw Social
Security and Medicare, rely on government to inspect their meat and
water for nasty bacteria, use innovations like the government created
internet - like right now, for instance.
Yet, in their eyes, the government is always the problem. Go figure.
.
While constantly bad-mouthing everything government, they send their
kids to government funded schools, drive on government funded roads,
use government funded services like police and fire fighters, draw Social
Security and Medicare, rely on government to inspect their meat and
water for nasty bacteria, use innovations like the government created
internet - like right now, for instance.
Yet, in their eyes, the government is always the problem. Go figure.
.
When I have kids I'll pay to send them to a charter school (while still paying to prop up second rate public schools).
Fuel taxes and vehicle registration pay a majority sum of road maint and up keep, arguably the only tax for use program that works. Don't want to pay? Don't drive. Participation is strictly voluntary.
Police and fire are supported through local property and sales taxes, local govt, the way it should be. Federal money is heaped upon them in return for bondage to said govt.
No one asked me if I wanted to participate in social security or Medicare. It's been taken from me my entire life, and given to your generation, and it will be broke long before I ever have an option to cash out. It's a ponzi scheme of the highest order and it was never meant to grow to the magnitude it is today. It was originally designed as a way to try and pry us out of the Great Depression.
Meat inspectors? I've got news for you, the free market would take care of this. If I buy food from my local farmer or market that makes me sick or isn't up to quality, guess what? I stop buying from them. Ever heard of word of mouth? do you buy something that friends and family don't recommend? Self regulation. Somehow human kind has survived generations without this (and other) BS govt programs.
Pretty sure the Internet can trace its roots to UCLA, and while DARPA may have a footnote in the history of the Internet it was purely through innovation of private enterprise that we have what we have today.
Large, bloated, expensive govt has never led to prosperity, ever. It's sole purpose is to feed itself.
05-12-2013, 05:55 PM
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I'm a boomer and I don't remember electing Patrick Dorinson to be my spokesman.
Who exactly is saying this besides talk radio hosts or pundits trying to sell an article? I've never said it. I don't know anyone in my personal life who has.
Things are the way they are today because the electorate can no longer vote
against the interests of Goldman Sachs, Boeing, Exxon/Mobil, General Electric, Bank
of America, Walmart or the Kock brothers.
Blaming a whole generation of boomers because the oligarchs have moved our manufacturing base overseas is just silly and if you buy into this, your corporate overlords have been successful in making you take your eye off the ball and
scapegoat a vulnerable target while trying to cut their Social Security.
It is not surprising that a Libertarian came up with this pap.
.
Who exactly is saying this besides talk radio hosts or pundits trying to sell an article? I've never said it. I don't know anyone in my personal life who has.
Things are the way they are today because the electorate can no longer vote
against the interests of Goldman Sachs, Boeing, Exxon/Mobil, General Electric, Bank
of America, Walmart or the Kock brothers.
Blaming a whole generation of boomers because the oligarchs have moved our manufacturing base overseas is just silly and if you buy into this, your corporate overlords have been successful in making you take your eye off the ball and
scapegoat a vulnerable target while trying to cut their Social Security.
It is not surprising that a Libertarian came up with this pap.
.
I was not educated in America so my perspective is from the outside looking in which gives a much more clearer view .
Those corporate overlords as you call them are also from the boomer generation .
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