[DomusAlbion]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Loki', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('DomusAlbion', 'W')ow, touched a nerve there, I see.

[Loki]

You're spouting the same uninformed, bigoted crap as the Rushbots, whether you listen to Limbaugh or not. "Spoiled kids," "squatters," "whiners," "defecators," blah blah blah. You're parroting GOP talking points.

If you don't want to be labeled a Rushbot I suggest you stop spewing his garbage and think for yourself for a second.

For an old geezer you sure don't seem to have much historical perspective. As I've said before, the occupy movement is just the beginning, we're only a MONTH into it. Whatever happens with the occupy movement, the next economic shock is guaranteed to trigger some serious social unrest, orders of magnitude beyond the modest protests we're seeing now. Better get used to it.

[Sixstrings]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Loki', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('DomusAlbion', 'W')ow, touched a nerve there, I see.

[rangerone314]

Protesting is pointless. If you are not an inconvenience you will be ignored by the PTB (while they count their money in their boardrooms and point at you in the street down below and laugh). If you become a real inconvenience, you will be beaten down by violence and removed by force.

I would never attend such a protest, because I choose not to put myself in such a situation. (Situation where honor demands that I come back the next day after being beaten down and demonstrate my military training)

[DomusAlbion]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('rangerone314', 'P')rotesting is pointless.

[Loki]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Sixstrings', '
')With respect to both of you guys.. why haven't either of you protested?

[Oneaboveall]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('DomusAlbion', 'I') was at university in the late sixties, early seventies. When we had demonstrations we were unified and we knew what we wanted and we were loud and angry and powerful.

These people are like spoiled kids lying on the front porch, holding their breath and sometimes kicking and screaming; waiting for the adults to fix things. I find them rather pathetic.

[rangerone314]

Trying to figure out what the Baby Boomers really accomplished, except bloating the entitlement system, selling out to the "Man", and eating up more than their generational share of resources. If anyone is spoiled, its the Baby Boomers. They are lucky the youth aren't out there suggesting "Logan's Run".

Heck, I'm over 30 but under 50 but I'd consider stepping forward to be the first person put to death by them if I thought I was going to be followed by all the Boomers.

[DomusAlbion]

The long predicted Generational War is here.

Well don't worry boys. All you need do is wait and we'll be gone.

Then it will be on you. Have fun.

[rangerone314]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('DomusAlbion', 'T')he long predicted Generational War is here.

Well don't worry boys. All you need do is wait and we'll be gone.

Then it will be on you. Have fun.

[Outcast_Searcher]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('rangerone314', 'T')rying to figure out what the Baby Boomers really accomplished, except bloating the entitlement system, selling out to the "Man", and eating up more than their generational share of resources. If anyone is spoiled, its the Baby Boomers. They are lucky the youth aren't out there suggesting "Logan's Run".

Heck, I'm over 30 but under 50 but I'd consider stepping forward to be the first person put to death by them if I thought I was going to be followed by all the Boomers.

[DomusAlbion]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Oneaboveall', '
')As a Gen-Xer, I just want to say that this is exactly the kind of smug BS that makes people hate Baby Boomers. "WE did it better. Only we're allowed to do it. You can't begin to compare, but if you're lucky, you'll be able to be perpetual little brothers and sisters who sit in awe of what we accomplished.."

[rangerone314]

I look at my paycheck and there are deductions for Medicare and Social Security.

I fail to see why I need to have those taken out to support a generation that had the world handed to them on a silver platter and doesn't even leave the generations that follow the bones.

I got an idea: scrap Medicare and Social Security NOW, including the deductions for it, since it is highly unlikely my generation and the ones that follow will get anything.

Then I will have very little to say about the Baby Boomers.

My own parents for example, don't care about the future their grandchildren will live in. They don't care about global warming or anything like that because they won't be around for it. Maybe our sick society could take a clue from the Native Americans who would look 7 generations back and 7 generations forwards.

[vision-master]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('DomusAlbion', 'T')he long predicted Generational War is here.

Well don't worry boys. All you need do is wait and we'll be gone.

Then it will be on you. Have fun.

[DomusAlbion]

But Ranger, my generation paid into the social security system also and actually we still do. We all were promised that the money would be invested and returned with interest. I for one paid nearly the top rate for 35 years. My contribution plus my employers’ matching amount is in the $100s of thousands. So we are not at fault for trusting the government; fools maybe, but we didn’t start the fire. I’m retired but currently I’m not drawing from SS and don’t plan to for at least 3 years and maybe not until 2020. It doesn’t make economic sense right now. Please, just be careful who you're aiming at when you pull that trigger.

As to Social Security, I believe there should be an option to opt out and also to give control of the money to those who earned it; some kind of hybrid between government management and a 401K. It would force people to plan and save but there would be a much greater shepherding of the funds by the individuals contributing and it wouldn't/couldn't be pilfered by the Congress.

As to your generation and its future deprivations; it's also highly unlikely that you'll be able to afford an automobile or be able to drive the one you have for any great distance. I'll be a very old and poor man forced by circumstance to work the land for his daily bread, if I'm lucky. It all sucks.

[rangerone314]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('DomusAlbion', 'B')ut Ranger, my generation paid into the social security system also and actually we still do. We all were promised that the money would be invested and returned with interest.

[Cog]

As a boomer, I will gladly forgo any and all social security for myself as long as I can end it for the Gen-Xers.

No need to thank me for my generous offer.

[rangerone314]

I would accept that offer and the elimination of the payroll taxes. I can use the extra money to buy more plants, like Arbosana olives that can take colder weather, quinces & quamash.

[Plantagenet]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('rangerone314', 'T')rying to figure out what the Baby Boomers really accomplished, except bloating the entitlement system, selling out to the "Man", and eating up more than their generational share of resources. If anyone is spoiled, its the Baby Boomers. They are lucky the youth aren't out there suggesting "Logan's Run".

Heck, I'm over 30 but under 50 but I'd consider stepping forward to be the first person put to death by them if I thought I was going to be followed by all the Boomers.

[DomusAlbion]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('rangerone314', '.').. buy more plants, like Arbosana olives that can take colder weather, quinces & quamash.