My Boomer Tips

My Boomer Tips

Or, has the baby-boomer society that dominated in the 70's - 90's made it better or worst for Generation-X' rs that came along?
No offense to boomers.

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Everyone (or mostly everyone) knows that a generation is 20 years (or about that. Not 10, and not 15.

Most everyone also knows that the baby boomers were born between 1946 and 1964. Folks, this is a good 18 years. That is a generation.

What in the world is wrong with the people that decided that the Gen Xer's end at 1980?

Who thought of this? Was it a group of people that thought "Oh yeah, we should cut down this generation to only 15 years". (so that it SEEMS like less people are in this generation???)

How can they think that a generation is only 15 years, when most people know that a generation is 20 years?

Why are Gen Xer's left out of everthing?

Where do they get these idea's from?

Is anyone else feel left out and upset over this or is it just me?
Torch, you are just a troll. You did not answer my question, did you? Nope.
Look at this from Wikipedia.org:

Generation Y (sometimes referred to as "Millennials (AKA Class of 2000)'"[1] or "Echo Boomers"[2], and occasionally jokingly "Generation Why?") refers to the cohort of individuals born between 1982 and 1994.[3]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_Y

Does not seem right to give Gen Y only a silly 12 year span for a "generation"-since again, a generation is usually 20 years. I guess we can expect to see all these 12 year olds having babies then, huh?

Isn't this the purpose for a "generation". To mark when a generation has "children"?
I just found out that the US Census Bureau is the one that decided the baby boomer generation is from 1946-1964.

According to a sorce on Wikipedia, this generation ends in 1961. There is also a "Jones Generation" and a "MTV generation".

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...they get 100% of their inheritances with no taxes due?
"You mean like putting man on the moon"

I did not know that being born in the 1930's qualified one as a "Baby Boomer".

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Who is going to pay for the baby boomer explosion when the Medicare trust fund is insolvent and how does it effect the later generations like generation Y.

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Many of them seem to be too confrontational or too competitive, as if they have to "prove something" all of the time, or try to "out-do" generation Xers, which causes them to give up or try less than their parents. I'm 36, and I can think of numerous times when I would try to befriend or have a pleasant conversation with baby boomer men, and their replies were often a predictable sarcastic response, such as, "Ha!, you weren't even born back when this happened" (in a less than kind, non-joking tone), and things like "Our music, our cars, etc, were better." Yet, I tend to get along just fine with people born in the Silent Generation, because even though many of them were competitive, they treated each other, including younger people, with a bit more class and dignity.

As a person born in 1975, I have really grown tired of Baby Boomers trying to pick generational fights with their offspring. I despise being told how we are less productive, when it was their generation that exported all of our quality factory jobs, shunned the true classical works of music and art, and became the impetus of the modern-day drug epidemic. Many of them are never satisfied with life as it is, and try to force their will upon the masses rather than letting people and things live and be as they are.

Does anyone else feel this way, too, sometimes?

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The Greatest Generation made the USA safe and prosperous for us Baby Boomers and now it is time for the X,Y,Z or what ever generation to support us Baby Boomers in our retirement years. It is the younger generation's turn to provide for our every needs. We have the votes so why not just surrender to your destiny?

Baby Boomer since 1954

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Why did they decide to buy buy-to-let properties and decide to push up the price of housing to ridiculous levels, thus ensuring that their children have to pay ludicrous amounts for property? Do they not understand that this is stealing from the young? Why did they decide to have final salary pension schemes for themselves, but defined contribution schemes for their children, thus subjecting their children's pensions to the vagaries of the stock market? Do the baby boomer generation not understand that expecting the young to fund their lavish pension schemes when the young themselves get pensions on significantly less favourable terms is effectively inter generational theft?

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Hi! I'm a Virginia Tech Industrial Design student, and we are working on a current sponsored project to find project opportunities for the baby boomer generation. Any answers or further suggestions would be well appreciated. Thanks for the help!