I`m right there with you Razor. I never took a dime from my mother after I got a job at 16 and out of the house and on my own after graduation at 18. I rat-holed money from the time I got a job in 1975 until I retired 3 years ago. I`m not apologizing for any nice things I have or that monthly SSI check I get every month. Mine and my wife's achievements or assets aren`t something we inherited or what was left to us either. We earned it and I don`t give 2 F`s about what some pimpled faced hipster (or any other person) with his face in his phone, drinking a coffee at an overpriced coffee shop thinks about the Boomer Generation.

I love boomers. Heck I am one, my wife is one (barely), my sister and cousins are also boomers. We all had great careers, raised solid families, and retired with money and time left on the clock. So, keep complaining about boomers, but you might want to critique yourself and the mistakes you may have made with your life if you are unhappy. It might be your own fault, not the boomer down the street.

But Razor and TPACK (so tempted to write TP). Please tell us how you really feel.


BTW, held a job since I was 15. Retired 4 years and think SS reimbursement should be doubled. I'll never get back what I paid into it.

A Baby Boomer means you were born between 1946 - 1964, but lets look at the Generation x group, they were born between 1965 - 1980.
Just from this list a Boomer is between 60 - 78, Generation X between 44 - 59.
I am assuming here most of us here fit in the 60-78 group, I do, I am 65 years young.

A- Then as a baby boomer, the later stages of one at least, I have seen the demise of many qualities of the family, moral values and work ethics.

B- But lets look at the The Silent Generation, born between 1928 - 1945

C- The Greatest Generation or the GI generation born between 1901 - 1927.

Our parents would come from the Silent Generation mainly, again mine did. They were the kids who grew up during the depression, World War II era. Cold War, Berlin Wall going up.To me a very defining era to say the least. Wall

D- Baby Boomers grew up in the Rocking 50's, Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis and James Brown. Let';add in sex drugs and rock and roll as we call it. Being I am in the latter stages of the Baby Boomers, I grew up watch the Vietnam war on TV but also watch man walk on the moon. But we also had the riots of 68, the assassination of the Kennedy's, MLK to the Charles Mansion cult murders. Let's not forget Watergate.Ronald Reagan and the Berlin Wall coming down.

E- Generation X 1965- 1980, they grew up with......Pong, IBM, Packard Bell, Atari, Compaq, Microsoft. Gulf War

F- Let look at Generation Y, meaning born between 1981 - 1996, these are my kids era. They grew up with PlayStation, Xbox, Cell phones, Every one wins. The coming out of the closets for homosexuals.Transvestites being leaders in this country. A President that has last stage dementia and people still want him, well 81 million people do.

Now tell me where it went wrong............

In my opinion, it went wrong in the late 60’s, during the Viet Nam war. The hippie generation started the ‘no respect for authority’. They raised their kids like that, and here we are.

I wasn’t a hippie. About the time the Free Love thing started, I had just joined the Marines. Now, if I had KNOWN the free love thing was coming, I might have put off the USMC. But…I just remembered that I was about to be drafted. Heck, my timing was just bad. My draft number was 113. If born 9 hours earlier, my draft number would have been number 1.

In this day and age dying at 50 may be a blessing

I am Gen X and retired before many boomers. My Boomer father taught me the importance of hard work, saving and not being afraid to risk it all if you think it can be a home run.

Thanks Pops and Satoshi Nakamoto!

Our grandkids are going to hate us with a passion.

Honestly I had to look up that last name-
I didn’t know that-

Yeah, I know that second guy. Had the skyscraper Nakamoto Towers that John McClain partied in.

I'm reminded:

"Hard times create strong men, strong men create easy times, easy times create weak men, weak men create difficult times."

it's a cultural thing

hate is "in"

And still...nobody knows who the heck that person really is.