The Atlantic to Millennials: Get Off Our Lawn!

[Valin]

Via Meadia:

 

5/31/13

 

 

Edward Tenner at The Atlantic is worried that the boomers are getting a bad rap. The flapper generation, which came of age in the 1920s, was an equally controversial cohort, but they were able to dwindle off into old age in peace, while the boomers have become a punching bag for those complaining about American decline. Why the difference in treatment by history?

 

Tenner offers a few possible explanations. The boomers got lucky with the economic boom of the 1980s, while the Jazz Age gave way to a Great Depression in which everyone suffered. Then theres the bitter divisiveness of the Vietnam War era, as opposed to the unifying patriotism of World War II.

 

Whatever the cause, Tenner believes this national negativity toward his peers is unmerited:

 

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But what should they be grateful for? In city after city, their services are being cut and taxes raised to pay for overpromised, underfunded public pensions. On the national level, the boomers leveraged their vast numbers to vote for unprecedented entitlement reforms with utter disregard to their impact on succeeding generations. These entitlement programs now account for 38 percent of total federal spending, and many are running out of money: Medicares trust will be exhausted in 13 years, and Social Securitys in 20. These programs will probably be cut back dramatically by the time the millennials are old enough to retire, but not before they have paid in to keep the lavish benefits of older generations in tact.

 

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I would just add not all of us were all warm and fuzzy about what has been done to our country!

 

 

 

So Eddy! You have my express permission to kiss my rosy red rectum....both cheeks....no tongue

[Valin]

Mark Levin weighs in

 

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There's always this talk about the younger generation, upper-teens, college students, young people, young families -- anywhere from about 17 and 18 to about 40, 45. But there is something wrong with them. They're just not as good as with our generation. There is something wrong -- they're too liberal, they're lethargic, they don't embrace American principles.

 

I started thinking more about this when I watched my son's graduation ceremony at Chapman University. And I noticed another gentlemen over here did the same thing for The Daily Caller. Timothy Philen. I don't know who he is. And what he wrote there -- and we will link to it on my website -- is something that I was thinking about too when I was watching the procession of graduates. I thought to myself, this generation, this younger generation is actually a pretty good generation, all things told.

 

It's my generation that is doing things to them. It's my generation that is forcing them into liberal indoctrination centers that we call our public school system. It's my generation that has elected politicians -- there's not enough of them to vote, it's our generation, my generation that has elected people from our generation who create these massive yearly deficits and this ballooning debt that will destroy their futures if we don't figure out how to reverse course.

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Vid at link

[Draggingtree]

Via Meadia:

 

5/31/13

 

 

Edward Tenner at The Atlantic is worried that the boomers are getting a bad rap. The flapper generation, which came of age in the 1920s, was an equally controversial cohort, but they were able to dwindle off into old age in peace, while the boomers have become a punching bag for those complaining about American decline. Why the difference in treatment by history?

 

Tenner offers a few possible explanations. The boomers got lucky with the economic boom of the 1980s, while the Jazz Age gave way to a Great Depression in which everyone suffered. Then theres the bitter divisiveness of the Vietnam War era, as opposed to the unifying patriotism of World War II.

 

Whatever the cause, Tenner believes this national negativity toward his peers is unmerited:

 

(Snip)

 

But what should they be grateful for? In city after city, their services are being cut and taxes raised to pay for overpromised, underfunded public pensions. On the national level, the boomers leveraged their vast numbers to vote for unprecedented entitlement reforms with utter disregard to their impact on succeeding generations. These entitlement programs now account for 38 percent of total federal spending, and many are running out of money: Medicares trust will be exhausted in 13 years, and Social Securitys in 20. These programs will probably be cut back dramatically by the time the millennials are old enough to retire, but not before they have paid in to keep the lavish benefits of older generations in tact.

 

(Snip)

 

 

I would just add not all of us were all warm and fuzzy about what has been done to our country!

 

 

 

So Eddy! You have my express permission to kiss my rosy red rectum....both cheeks....no tongue