Why Boomers Acting Like They're 25 May Not Be So Bad

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Oh, yes, I've been acting like a kid for 48 years! Adaptability and openness, yup.

Why don't baby boomers want to age gracefully? demonstrate wisdom? show leadership?

It's because you all are still in a purple haze. 40 years in a spiritual wilderness. 40 years of hating your country. 40 years of greed, gluttony and cowardice. America is tied to Isreal in more ways than one. You have led us to abyss of America's destruction.

Keep acting like children. Move the right to Florida and the left to California. Generation X will have to clean up your political, financial, and spiritual mess.

I am sure you already know but 50 million (that's 2/3) of you have less than $100K in retirement assets. You need to stay young so that you can work forever.

Why not start the party early? Resign from all political and civic positions by 2008.

Let Generation X begin to dig the US out of your mess.

Under 48 (yo) in 2008.

Lazarus the Teacher

Re: Lazarus the Teacher-boomers want to age gracefully? There has been good and bad in those 40 years. The GOOD-a cultural change allowed protestors to get the US out of the Vietnam quagmire after it became apparent government lies were sinking the country deeper into a black hole of debt and and military deaths. BAD-we didnt learn the lesson. 40 years later, govt lies have us in a black hole of debt and death.But heh? like the 60's-there's money to be made.Oil,war..Bush doesnt care where it comes from. His group will have made they're $$$. The Cheney Haliburton foundation amoung others. But this country deserves it for voting
the village idiot in for another term. Forget Florida/california-too expensive on a fixed income. Good luck getting the X-ers' to pay for the mess.Mc Donald's wont pay for a new Razor phone to text message your pals. Work is not in most X-er's vocabulary. You're right-we should retire early-so we can spend your inheritance. Sorry...you may just have to get a job and pay for your own car and one day, some Y generation kid can complain about the mess you left him 20 years from now. Our biggest fault
you touched on. Working too hard to provide all the things our youth does not appreciate; a home, food, an education, all while putting trust in our elected officials to not be corrupt and screw this country up for financial gain-both D and R parties. The R choice made for the last 8 years Will be felt for some time. tallntrue

(1) I see no reason to "age gracefully" when I've never claimed to be graceful in the first place.

(2) I'm definitely a news junkie until the past couple of years, but cut myself off cold turkey when I came to realize the world is going a little zonkers. I find myself SO discouraged with MY generation, which once did actually force changes in global society, but somehow along the way SOMEbody dropped the ball.

And what are we doing now but "aging gracefully" into a bunch of old farts who do nothing but complain about the younger generation. (Where have I heard that before, hmm...) Have we spent all our passion trying to cope in a deterioriating nation all these years trying to make a good life for our families?

It hasn't been easy trying to struggle with careers and families, AND with the legal changes WE once influenced that all too often spin out of reasonable control. Now all I see around me is social classes growing more divided, government AND media becoming more corrupt, financial institutions bleeding us dry, and a brand new generation taking the reins which seems to value gadgets above even non-nutritional food.

I try not to spend my time complaining about the younger situation, primarily because approaching the age of 60 I realize I'm still dealing with issues of employment (harder now to find at my age), zero health care, and nonexistent reasonable housing. I still wish I could change the world, but now it seems to me mere survival is more important.

(But do I still love my original soundtrack from "Hair".)

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