In praise of the Boomer Generation

[BrilloPad]

The baby boomers have borrowed from the future. And now the future wants it back.

[expat]

The baby boomers have borrowed from the future. And now the future wants it back.

Borrowed from the future? How so?

Nope: the Boomers inherited nothing, worked for what they have, built a better world, paid for previous generations, and invested in future generations.

The Silent Generation and the GI Generation gained from the Boomers' intergenerational solidarity and so did GenX. If present generations are not getting quite so much handed to them, that's tough. We have done our bit.

I suspect that some people are confusing "Baby Boom Generation" with "Everybody older than me".

[AtW]

Coming soon - Baby Boomers that stole Christmas!

[AtW]

I thought I would just find a woman I hate and buy her a house.

I thought you already done that?

[PurpleGorilla]

Borrowed from the future? How so?

Nope: the Boomers inherited nothing, worked for what they have, built a better world, paid for previous generations, and invested in future generations.

The Silent Generation and the GI Generation gained from the Boomers' intergenerational solidarity and so did GenX. If present generations are not getting quite so much handed to them, that's tough. We have done our bit.

I suspect that some people are confusing "Baby Boom Generation" with "Everybody older than me".

[BrilloPad]

I thought you already done that?

Twice.

But I am thick and have not learned my lesson either time.

[AtW]

Twice.

But I am thick and have not learned my lesson either time.

Twice now?

[BrilloPad]

invested in future generations.

That is what we disagree on. Now university costs. And houses are unaffordable.

The only way the young can get on is to receive from rich parents. Its a return to Victorian times. But then Britain ruled most of the world - so that makes it okay.

[AtW]

That is what we disagree on. Now university costs. And houses are unaffordable.

The only way the young can get on is to receive from rich parents. Its a return to Victorian times. But then Britain ruled most of the world - so that makes it okay.

It's

I am pretty sure back then punctuation was more solid...

[BrilloPad]

It's

I am pretty sure back then punctuation was more solid...

Another of MS's sockies?

I am sure punctuation was beaten into them in the "good old days".