Comments on: Smacking hope down, baby boomer style http://www.zullnero.com/blah/archives/90 Coding, Politics, Science, and other stuff probably Sun, 11 Jul 2010 22:32:15 -0600 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: zullnero http://www.zullnero.com/blah/archives/90/comment-page-1#comment-111 zullnero Sun, 11 Jul 2010 22:32:15 +0000 http://www.zullnero.com/blah/?p=90#comment-111 Hello, Abigail, if that's your real name (and I'm sure you're probably also a spammer). Allow me to explain something that you might have missed. This isn't about individuals. This is about the repercussions that an entire generation, a generation that, by and large, prided itself on activism. Your grandfather is an <em>individual</em>. The dead simple point I tried to make with my previous reply is that it's not about an individual, like your grandfather, like my parents, like the other spammer...I mean, commenter's...grandfather. It's about the damage, both economically and environmentally, a generation (not just your relatives, but what, in a broader political sense, an entire mass of people within a particular age group that could vote and essentially drove the economy) caused and what the next couple generations are going to be stuck cleaning up...or more likely, suffering under. When Jimmy Carter put solar panels on the White House, the Reagan administration, put in office by and large by a movement led heavily by the baby boom generation, TORE THOSE SOLAR PANELS DOWN. He defunded solar power and wind power and he poured money into corporate welfare for oil companies, removed regulations, and now we've got the Gulf of Mexico half filled up with oil. Corporations have more money now than they've ever had in our entire history, but we've got the highest unemployment rates and highest rates of poverty in 50 years. That is the big, steaming pile that the baby boom generation (and my generation didn't do a much better job by staying home and giving up, refusing to vote out of cynicism) gave to all of us. If that doesn't piss you off enough to try and do the right thing and try to fix things, I don't know what would. But that generation really screwed things up badly, regardless of how you feel about your family members, and the ideals that generation eventually followed and grew to espouse need to be called out so future generations don't make those same mistakes again. The baby boomers, by and large, had the opportunity presented to them when they were young, when they were our age, to drive more economical vehicles. To do the right thing. To understand that short term economic gains aren't as important as passing along long term wealth to their children and their children's children. You think global warming is a new idea? Nope. Scientists were finding solid proof of it as far back as 1970. Instead, they opted for SUVs, big gas guzzlers, and savings and loan scandals. They voted to cut their own taxes...even though they knew that the next generations would have to be taxed to pay off the debt that they caused out of their fear of the Russians and the cold war. That generation really stuck it to their kids, and the bottom line is that someone's got to point it out so that it never happens again. Get it? Hello, Abigail, if that’s your real name (and I’m sure you’re probably also a spammer). Allow me to explain something that you might have missed. This isn’t about individuals. This is about the repercussions that an entire generation, a generation that, by and large, prided itself on activism. Your grandfather is an individual. The dead simple point I tried to make with my previous reply is that it’s not about an individual, like your grandfather, like my parents, like the other spammer…I mean, commenter’s…grandfather. It’s about the damage, both economically and environmentally, a generation (not just your relatives, but what, in a broader political sense, an entire mass of people within a particular age group that could vote and essentially drove the economy) caused and what the next couple generations are going to be stuck cleaning up…or more likely, suffering under. When Jimmy Carter put solar panels on the White House, the Reagan administration, put in office by and large by a movement led heavily by the baby boom generation, TORE THOSE SOLAR PANELS DOWN. He defunded solar power and wind power and he poured money into corporate welfare for oil companies, removed regulations, and now we’ve got the Gulf of Mexico half filled up with oil. Corporations have more money now than they’ve ever had in our entire history, but we’ve got the highest unemployment rates and highest rates of poverty in 50 years. That is the big, steaming pile that the baby boom generation (and my generation didn’t do a much better job by staying home and giving up, refusing to vote out of cynicism) gave to all of us. If that doesn’t piss you off enough to try and do the right thing and try to fix things, I don’t know what would. But that generation really screwed things up badly, regardless of how you feel about your family members, and the ideals that generation eventually followed and grew to espouse need to be called out so future generations don’t make those same mistakes again.

The baby boomers, by and large, had the opportunity presented to them when they were young, when they were our age, to drive more economical vehicles. To do the right thing. To understand that short term economic gains aren’t as important as passing along long term wealth to their children and their children’s children. You think global warming is a new idea? Nope. Scientists were finding solid proof of it as far back as 1970. Instead, they opted for SUVs, big gas guzzlers, and savings and loan scandals. They voted to cut their own taxes…even though they knew that the next generations would have to be taxed to pay off the debt that they caused out of their fear of the Russians and the cold war. That generation really stuck it to their kids, and the bottom line is that someone’s got to point it out so that it never happens again. Get it?

]]> By: Abigail Clark http://www.zullnero.com/blah/archives/90/comment-page-1#comment-110 Abigail Clark Sun, 11 Jul 2010 18:55:16 +0000 http://www.zullnero.com/blah/?p=90#comment-110 my grandfather is also a baby boomer and he is also a war veteran"*: my grandfather is also a baby boomer and he is also a war veteran”*:

]]> By: zullnero http://www.zullnero.com/blah/archives/90/comment-page-1#comment-89 zullnero Tue, 25 May 2010 20:31:55 +0000 http://www.zullnero.com/blah/?p=90#comment-89 Not the point. I have parents that are Baby Boomers. Generally everyone has people that they love. You're not getting it. I will explain the sarcasm and ruin the joke for you. The whole point isn't about one or two people, it's about the majority of a generation that had the most influence in this country for a few decades. Every generation has its time...this one that I am referring to, the Baby Boomer generation, the result of children born after WWII, held onto power longer than most. They gave us 30 years of lousy Presidents and lousy politics, mainly on their vote and their influence. All the while, they continued to beat a drum that their generation was somehow better than the next couple generations because they protested Vietnam. All the while, they turned into their parents who thought their generation was inferior because the previous generation fought in WWII to defend freedom. So currently, we're sitting at the end of a 30 year run of insanely irresponsible politics. The notion that you can cut taxes 3 times over AND throw more money at wars than any other country in the world is pure lunacy. But that's what they voted for, and that's what they handed on as a legacy to the following generations to clean up. Excuse me for being kind of pissed off that we, the generations that are now finally represented by a President that is from our generation, have been handed a big stinking mess to clean up. After the generation before the Baby Boomers handed them the most stable and most economically secure country on Earth. All because the majority of a generation of greedy, selfish, self-entitled people got it into their heads that they "din't want to pay taxes" and put their own personal wealth far above the overall wealth and value of the country they passed on to their kids. That generation was that Baby Boomer generation, the generation that knew they were the reason why our social programs were being stretched to their limits, and instead of making those programs better, began demanding that they be cut leaving the next generations with NOTHING. Even though I know you're probably a spammer with an email address like that. Not the point. I have parents that are Baby Boomers. Generally everyone has people that they love. You’re not getting it. I will explain the sarcasm and ruin the joke for you. The whole point isn’t about one or two people, it’s about the majority of a generation that had the most influence in this country for a few decades. Every generation has its time…this one that I am referring to, the Baby Boomer generation, the result of children born after WWII, held onto power longer than most. They gave us 30 years of lousy Presidents and lousy politics, mainly on their vote and their influence. All the while, they continued to beat a drum that their generation was somehow better than the next couple generations because they protested Vietnam. All the while, they turned into their parents who thought their generation was inferior because the previous generation fought in WWII to defend freedom. So currently, we’re sitting at the end of a 30 year run of insanely irresponsible politics. The notion that you can cut taxes 3 times over AND throw more money at wars than any other country in the world is pure lunacy. But that’s what they voted for, and that’s what they handed on as a legacy to the following generations to clean up.

Excuse me for being kind of pissed off that we, the generations that are now finally represented by a President that is from our generation, have been handed a big stinking mess to clean up. After the generation before the Baby Boomers handed them the most stable and most economically secure country on Earth. All because the majority of a generation of greedy, selfish, self-entitled people got it into their heads that they “din’t want to pay taxes” and put their own personal wealth far above the overall wealth and value of the country they passed on to their kids. That generation was that Baby Boomer generation, the generation that knew they were the reason why our social programs were being stretched to their limits, and instead of making those programs better, began demanding that they be cut leaving the next generations with NOTHING.

Even though I know you’re probably a spammer with an email address like that.

]]> By: Luca Richards http://www.zullnero.com/blah/archives/90/comment-page-1#comment-88 Luca Richards Tue, 25 May 2010 19:28:53 +0000 http://www.zullnero.com/blah/?p=90#comment-88 My grandpa is also a Baby Boomer and we love him a lot..~; My grandpa is also a Baby Boomer and we love him a lot..~;

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