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The boomer curse unleashed
2007-11-14 18:32:00
And that's the good news. Beggaring government is the least of the damage that we baby boomers intend to inflict over the next 30 or 40 years. What we're really up to is something more diabolical. Our generation is going to do what our generation has always done best. We're going to shape the American social fabric to our will and make the entire nation conform to our ideals, judgments, and
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Graduates burdened by exorbitant student loans
2007-09-30 20:45:00
Many in the next generation of workers will be so debt-burdened they will have to delay home purchases, limit vacations, even eat out less to pay loans off on time.Kristin Cole, 30, who graduated from Michigan State University's law school and lives in Grand Rapids, Mich., owes $150,000 in private and government-backed student loans. Her monthly payment of $660, which consumes a quarter of her
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The death rattle of boomer liberalism
2007-09-25 06:02:00
Thus, the people who are the public voice of American liberalism rarely have any real connection to the ordinary working people whose interests they putatively champion. They tend instead to be well-off, college-educated yuppies from California or the East Coast, and hard as they try to worry about food stamps or veterans’ rights or securing federal assistance for heating oil bills, they
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The (Anti) Freedom Generation: an open letter to boomers
2007-09-19 05:32:00
Your generation is owed even more thanks for its total failure to do away with the war on drugs over the past three decades. Your generation’s monstrous consumption of drugs in the 1960’s is simply too well known to need recounting, but you fortunately came to your senses in the 1980’s and did nothing to stop the government’s merciless persecution of younger generations of drug consumers. Few
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Naked boomer greed overshadows Iraq debacle
2007-09-03 05:36:00
Operation Iraq i Freedom, it turns out, was never a war against Saddam ­Hussein's Iraq. It was an invasion of the federal budget, and no occupying force in history has ever been this efficient. George W. Bush's war in the Mesopotamian desert was an experiment of sorts, a crude first take at his vision of a fully privatized American government. In Iraq the lines between essential government
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LTE: Blame the selfish boomers!
2007-08-23 00:54:00
The seeds planted 40 years ago by a generation of self-serving brats have morphed into the cesspool we wade in today. Previous generations will be remembered for bestowing to the future the gifts of liberty, patriotism and self-sacrifice. Your generation's motto — sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll— is the sum of your meager contribution. We see the unintended consequences of allowing a generation of
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Hasn't Woodstock always been for sale?
2007-08-16 09:00:00
They have tried to be good conservators: For more than a decade, beginning around the 25th anniversary in 1994, they held Woodstock "reunions" that drew musicians and a few hundred to a few thousand spectators, who camped on their 40-hectare homestead for the three days in August near the anniversary dates of Aug. 15, 16 and 17. But they are getting older. They have had a long-running conflict
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Boomer recovery zombies prey on teens
2007-07-23 19:01:00
Kristen, now 26, said that for eight years, she was "passed along" from one middle-aged male leader of Midtown to another. She said her sponsor urged her to have sex with Quinones -- widely known as Mike Q. -- as a way to solidify her sobriety and spiritual revival. Kristen, who spoke on the condition that her last name not be used in keeping with AA traditions, also recalled helping to persuade
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Boomer volunteers: what's in it for ME?
2007-07-18 21:34:00
"Boomers are far more interested in volunteering than they're given credit for," Baldwin said. "They're far more interested in using their career and non-career-related skills. They have higher expectations for their volunteer experiences than some of the younger users we're sampling." But many can't find an outfit that engages the full range of their interests, skills and life experience, he
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The price of hypocrisy: Aussie pols struggle with youthful pot use
2007-07-16 16:58:00
The main reason we hear so many marijuana confessions these days is that baby boomers rule the world. The children of the '60s survived and thrived, man. They emerged dazed from the smoky haze, and took control of the levers. So now the electorate must suffer as boomer pollies tell us that, yes, they smoked pot, and did a few things in their golden youth they shouldn't have, but it's time for
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Freedom eclipsed: the boomer culture of fear
2007-07-11 17:00:00
Americans today are actually not much different than those citizens that lived in Great Britain before democracy was introduced. Take for example that as the aristocrats did in early Great Britain, many of our wealthy conservative politicians today are playing the “fear” card by spreading fear among the citizens. They continue to say: “We must fight the terrorists over there or they will attack
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The Last Abomination
2007-07-09 17:33:00
Oak Park, Ill. plastic surgeon and author Allan Parungao, MD, notes a 279% increase in breast implant surgery from 1997 to 2006. And now some daughters who have breast augmentation are inspiring their Baby Boomer mothers to follow suit. Breast augmentation surgery isn't just for 20-somethings. According to the American Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons, more than 50% of the 383,886 women who
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Jesus is just alright!
2007-07-02 22:54:00
Questions may have driven many from church, but they're also driving many the boomer generation back to the pews. The generation born from 1946 to 1964 is known for both spiritual seeking and religious scepticism. It's the generation that protested the Vietnam War, challenged gender roles and flouted many forms of convention. Now many of these seekers are returning to the religious rituals that
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Scathing new video mocks boomer drug war hawks
2007-06-28 05:15:00
Does your politician suffer from Chronic Re-Election Paranoia (CREEP)? Do you think our nation has an Incarcerex dependence? Tell your elected officials to give up the quick fix and create a new bottom line for the war on drugs. "Incarcerex" Drug Policy Alliance This is the real "civil rights legacy" of the boomers...
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They'll buy anything: status-hungry boomers seek cutting edge lawn mowers
2007-06-27 23:38:00
Just before Memorial Day, Rod Reams ditched his clunky old lawn mower. His new ride: a ZTR, or zero-turning-radius mower, which can spin around in place and cut a four-foot swath of grass at up to eight miles an hour.Reams, of west suburban Batavia, likes the way his John Deere Z445 cuts cleanly and trims his chore time to two hours from four. He likes something else, too: "One of my neighbors
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Boomer tyranny: prison population at "all time high"
2007-06-27 22:23:00
The slammer is getting slammed -- with an increase in inmates. The nation's inmate population is at an all-time high, and has seen its largest year-to-year increase in six years, according to a Bureau of Justice Statistics report. The findings, examining the time frame from July 2005 to June 2006, totaled up more than 2.2 million people incarcerated in the nation's federal and state prisons and
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It takes a village...to create a child-free boomer beach
2007-06-24 19:00:00
Pails, shovels and the kids who tote them no longer will be allowed in a kid-free zone that opened this summer on the public beach in Lake Forest. "We're creating a quieter space for those adults that are in search of that type of atmosphere," said Sally Swarthout, program manager for the north suburban city's Parks & Recreation Board, which created the 21-and-older beach at the request of
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LTE: 'disgusted by boomers'
2007-06-24 18:52:00
I am a 62-year-old baby boomer who is disgusted and repulsed by my generation. We went from having the greatest generation to the worst overnight. We have lived our lives as self-indulgent spoiled brats. Nothing is sacred or worth fighting for if it interferes with our lifestyle or pleasure. "A Baby Boomer Disgusted By Boomers " Arizona Republic

Boomers lag behind children, elders in charitable giving
2007-06-24 18:45:00
Why don't affluent Baby Boomers give more money away? We ask this question not to guilt-trip, as Boomer slang would put it, but because solving some urgent social problems hangs on the answer. People between 51 and 64 donate less than three-fourths of one percent of their investment assets, on average -- significantly less than those either younger or older than them, according to New Tithing's
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The sickest generation
2007-06-20 00:58:00
A generation used to being at the forefront of social change, the baby boomers are about to achieve another first - but this time, the news isn't so good. For as they edge toward retirement, there is a growing body of evidence to suggest that baby boomers will be the first generation to enter their golden years in worse health than their parents. "The baby boomers who are in worse health than
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Boomer 'Zero Tolerance' policies under fire
2007-06-18 17:02:00
Fifth-graders in California who adorned their mortarboards with tiny toy plastic soldiers last week to support troops in Iraq were forced to cut off their miniature weapons. A Utah boy was suspended for giving his cousin a cold pill prescribed to both students. In Rhode Island, a kindergartner was suspended for bringing a plastic knife to school so he could cut cookies. It's all part of "
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Boomers: richest generation in history, one in ten a "boomer elite"
2007-06-14 18:18:00
As portrayed by the media and in advertising, virtually all members of the Boomer generation are wealthy. However, only a few Boomers are truly affluent, and of these "elites" only one third relies on outside advice when making financial decisions according to a research study from Focalyst, a market research and consulting firm focused exclusively on Baby Boomers (those born between 1946 and
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My aura has a gut: UK boomers obsess about their appearance
2007-06-12 17:17:00
Almost two-thirds of baby boomers in Moschis's study admitted they were 'extremely' anxious about changes in their appearance and said they would go to great lengths to look a lot younger than they actually were. This compared with just 35 per cent of their parents' generation. In addition, almost two-thirds of baby boomers thought the best years of their life were already behind them, compared
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So much for aging gracefully: sex show targets Canada's boomers
2007-06-11 05:40:00
The pavilion was crowded with hundreds of people, young and old, but organizer David Stein said the show is geared towards a slightly older demographic who may need some help spicing up their sex lives. "This is a way to spark and rekindle in a safe environment where, if you’re curious and open-minded, you can have some real fun." "Toronto Sex Show Takes Aim At Bored, Tired Boomers " Nova Scotia
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A community in fear: boomers at the gates
2007-06-11 05:38:00
As a now budding member of the plague infesting our communities around the continent, with this new purchase you soon will flower here in the Roaring Fork into another rude, tailgating, speeding, gas-guzzling, resource-wasting, arrogant, impatient, materialistic and inconsiderate pig of a human who thinks the younger generations should live somewhere else. You, of course, will never give a
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Tokers or Jokers: Baby boomers taciturn on drug issue
2007-06-08 18:19:00
Some of these hippies still indulge, but fear of stigma born of the state's construction of deviancy, forces many responsible users to take a vow of silence about their indulgences. There are very few boomers who speak out against the laws they flouted in their youth. They've become the very hypocrites they rebelled against. "Wanted: Tokers In Suits" Now Magazine (Toronto)
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