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07/21/2009 12:29 PM
coboardgirl wrote: jdvpbliss wrote: PoetryNjcEyes wrote: PuraVidaPanama wrote: FirstStrike wrote: Even better, they're likely baby boomers. Tell them to own up to ruining our country, bankrupting us, and getting us involved in meaningless wars. Yes, they're the largest voting bloc, it's their damn fault. They are also the largest population that requires medical care. They are the high users of the system. I'm guessing they're also the largest group of taxpayers. And the group that paid the most in Social Security...yet they won't receive much of it. Not everything is so black and white. It was the corporations that destroyed our country. Though, I agree, the baby boomers had a hand in it, but not entirely. As for the comment about that generation being the most self entitled...wrong, that's the current generation. The one that most of us are in. Today's generation is too busy yapping on cell phones and worrying about me, me, me, to care about anything important. Thank you! I've always thought of the baby boomers as a hard working group and without them today's generation would not be able to live the life of luxury and overindulgence. If you want to point the finger at them, then blame them for enabling today's generation to become privileged, selfish, and spoiled rotten. BINGO.
jdvpbliss wrote: PoetryNjcEyes wrote: PuraVidaPanama wrote: FirstStrike wrote: Even better, they're likely baby boomers. Tell them to own up to ruining our country, bankrupting us, and getting us involved in meaningless wars. Yes, they're the largest voting bloc, it's their damn fault. They are also the largest population that requires medical care. They are the high users of the system. I'm guessing they're also the largest group of taxpayers. And the group that paid the most in Social Security...yet they won't receive much of it. Not everything is so black and white. It was the corporations that destroyed our country. Though, I agree, the baby boomers had a hand in it, but not entirely. As for the comment about that generation being the most self entitled...wrong, that's the current generation. The one that most of us are in. Today's generation is too busy yapping on cell phones and worrying about me, me, me, to care about anything important. Thank you! I've always thought of the baby boomers as a hard working group and without them today's generation would not be able to live the life of luxury and overindulgence. If you want to point the finger at them, then blame them for enabling today's generation to become privileged, selfish, and spoiled rotten.
PoetryNjcEyes wrote: PuraVidaPanama wrote: FirstStrike wrote: Even better, they're likely baby boomers. Tell them to own up to ruining our country, bankrupting us, and getting us involved in meaningless wars. Yes, they're the largest voting bloc, it's their damn fault. They are also the largest population that requires medical care. They are the high users of the system. I'm guessing they're also the largest group of taxpayers. And the group that paid the most in Social Security...yet they won't receive much of it. Not everything is so black and white. It was the corporations that destroyed our country. Though, I agree, the baby boomers had a hand in it, but not entirely. As for the comment about that generation being the most self entitled...wrong, that's the current generation. The one that most of us are in. Today's generation is too busy yapping on cell phones and worrying about me, me, me, to care about anything important.
PuraVidaPanama wrote: FirstStrike wrote: Even better, they're likely baby boomers. Tell them to own up to ruining our country, bankrupting us, and getting us involved in meaningless wars. Yes, they're the largest voting bloc, it's their damn fault. They are also the largest population that requires medical care. They are the high users of the system.
FirstStrike wrote: Even better, they're likely baby boomers. Tell them to own up to ruining our country, bankrupting us, and getting us involved in meaningless wars. Yes, they're the largest voting bloc, it's their damn fault.
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07/21/2009 1:12 PM
the lakes slave wrote: As for the comment about that generation being the most self entitled...wrong, that's the current generation. The one that most of us are in. Today's generation is too busy yapping on cell phones and worrying about me, me, me, to care about anything important. Wrong. Today's generation (that would be Gen Y, born around 1983) are more involved in public and community service and charity than any other generation, ever.
As for the comment about that generation being the most self entitled...wrong, that's the current generation. The one that most of us are in. Today's generation is too busy yapping on cell phones and worrying about me, me, me, to care about anything important.
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07/21/2009 1:40 PM
coboardgirl wrote: the lakes slave wrote: As for the comment about that generation being the most self entitled...wrong, that's the current generation. The one that most of us are in. Today's generation is too busy yapping on cell phones and worrying about me, me, me, to care about anything important. Wrong. Today's generation (that would be Gen Y, born around 1983) are more involved in public and community service and charity than any other generation, ever. I'm going to have to ask where you got that information, because everything I've ever seen says the contrary or that there really isn't much of a difference between the generations and how much time or money they dedicate to charity. And I think that when they talk about self entitlement they're more talking about how kids of our generation demand a lot more of their parents than kids of other generations ever did. I mean, think about it. Nowadays we often EXPECT our parents to pay for college. I don't believe our parents generation expected that. A lot of the kids I grew up with EXPECTED their parents to buy the latest fashions, help buy their first car (if not just give them one outright), etc. These were things our parents did not expect of their parents. We also expected (up until the last few years) to get a great job right out of college that paid really well and had great benefits. I don't know if that was something our parents expected. From what I've seen of my parents, that was never something they expected - even with college degrees. It was something they worked for. And I think that our parents ARE to blame for making our generation feel so entitled to these things so they definitely have their own part in it, but so do we.
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07/21/2009 1:49 PM
PoetryNjcEyes wrote: I'm guessing they're also the largest group of taxpayers. And the group that paid the most in Social Security...yet they won't receive much of it. Not everything is so black and white. It was the corporations that destroyed our country. Though, I agree, the baby boomers had a hand in it, but not entirely. As for the comment about that generation being the most self entitled...wrong, that's the current generation. The one that most of us are in. Today's generation is too busy yapping on cell phones and worrying about me, me, me, to care about anything important.
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07/21/2009 1:57 PM
Jamie Lee Coitus wrote: You know what cracks me up? The people who apparently think we can do no better than Canada are the same group who can't handle the suggestion that this country is less than perfect. Make up your minds; are we the greatest, most powerful nation on the planet, or aren't we?
07/21/2009 2:00 PM
Semirhage626 wrote: Jamie Lee Coitus wrote: You know what cracks me up? The people who apparently think we can do no better than Canada are the same group who can't handle the suggestion that this country is less than perfect. Make up your minds; are we the greatest, most powerful nation on the planet, or aren't we? A-fucking-men. I have some friends in Canada, and I have many, many issues with their healthcare system. Does that mean America shouldn't try to come up with a plan of our own? We should examine everyone's national healthcare plan and study what's good and bad about all of them, and try to come up with something new that will help expand coverage to all Americans and lower cost. I know it is possible, the problem is getting politics out of the way.
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