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Cassius Clay fought Sonny Liston during the Baby Boom, and it is to this day a very famous fight. I also know that he changed his name to Muhammad Ali to avoid serving in the Vietnam War.

What else did Cassius Clay do to influence Baby Boomers?

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and would this "echo" impact younger generations (now) in terms of job competition?

what age are the baby boomers anyway by now?

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The latest issue of AARP magazine compared both candidates' records and positions and showed a very strong preference for Obama over McCain. I am myself a Baby Boomer, and I agree 100%; Obama is the candidate to promote issues that are important to most of us.

I'm interested in knowing if you agree or disagree with the sentiment expressed by AARP.
Unlike many of you Baby Boomers who answered below, my Baby Boomer friends and I all think that Obama is a better answer than McCain. Just depends, I guess, on who you choose to hang around. My friends are all successful, reputable, and informed. How about yours?

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I hear news of baby boomers tapping into social security and job positions opening up, because of them retiring. Sounds like catastrophe because of less working people. Has it occurred to anyone there is a whole population outside the USA eager to work, and correspondingly to pay taxes? Future not that grim if considered in that light.

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There's been a lot of talk about Barack Obama not being part of the Baby Boomers, and from what I can find, he is right on the cusp of that generation, but that depends on your source. Also, technically since his grandfather was in WWII, that would make his mother a Baby Boomer and he would be part of the next generation.

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Assuming all else is equal, the retirement of the baby boomers will affect:
A) both aggregate supply and aggregate demand.
B) aggregate demand but not aggregate supply.
C) aggregate supply but not aggregate demand.
D) neither aggregate supply nor aggregate demand.

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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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Is the unemployment rate expected to drop drastically when as the baby boomers start to retire? My economics professor mentioned this as a positive outcome despite the social security crisis.