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JOhnH said:
I'm about to retire with a nest egg sufficient to support me to infinity, and NO debt.
So I think I am going to take every $ I get from social security and spend it on booze and parties and I will thank each and every one of you young people for being so generous.
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We can and will vote your nest egg right out of your pocket. You didn't build that nest egg. Lol.
 
RJM62 said:
Not really. There's no specific law that says you can't arrest a newborn for assaulting his mother by grabbing her nipple. It's just common sense not to do so.

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True, but if I'm out in the woods and have to take a leak, and get stumbled upon by the tree police, I'm suddenly a sex offender.
 
JOhnH said:
I'm about to retire with a nest egg sufficient to support me to infinity, and NO debt.
So I think I am going to take every $ I get from social security and spend it on booze and parties and I will thank each and every one of you young people for being so generous.
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You had me at booze and parties.
 
Stewartb said:
To you poor disadvantaged young folks..... You have options. Leave. Honestly, go do some traveling. It might help you understand how lucky you are and ease your self-pity.
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There's no self pity. I'm doing fine DESPITE the CF that the boomers have left behind.
 
ClimbnSink said:
We can and will vote your nest egg right out of your pocket. You didn't build that nest egg. Lol.
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I suspect that given the choice, many in your age group would vote for euthanasia if you perceived that it would make your own lives even slightly easier or more profitable.

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bartmc said:
It's not a complaint, it's an observation. People out workign for a living don't have the free time to stop by the polls...
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It's not necessary to go to the polls to vote.

I think the real reason younger people don't vote as much is things like apathy, lack of interest, resignation, etc.
 
ClimbnSink said:
We can and will vote your nest egg right out of your pocket. You didn't build that nest egg. Lol.
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I've never seen anyone demonstrate a reliable ability to predict how their own generation will vote.
 
bartmc said:
It's not a complaint, it's an observation. People out workign for a living don't have the free time to stop by the polls.
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<sigh> how long does it take to vote?

Do realize how pathetic it makes you sound when you claim that working for a living doesn't give people enough free time to vote once every 2 years?

Maybe a doctor (or the like) on call for a 24 hour shift would have an excuse. On the other hand, anyone can get an absentee ballot (even quicker to get than the time required to vote on election day).
 
I do put much of the blame on the Boomers, and I am one of them (caught the tail end), but I didn't vote for the social engineering, over spending, and over taxing. I saw it go down though, and I saw the impetus behind it from my peers. It was one of the first generations in the U.S. that really embraced a model that promoted the ideas of a government driven utopia. You can argue that FDR really started it all, and I would agree with that to a point, but LBJ really solidified the New Deal with the Great Society.

The values of the parents of the Boomers are considered archaic, old fashioned, too consevative, and dull. The media, government and education (part of government) are all gleefully taking us down a path of societal destruction.
 
Stewartb said:
To you poor disadvantaged young folks..... You have options. Leave. Honestly, go do some traveling. It might help you understand how lucky you are and ease your self-pity.
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Or it may open up your eyes to the evil, death, and destruction, your parents have wrought on the rest of the world. Have you stopped to wonder why we lose as many soldiers to suicide as combat? Realizing you've been duped into murder for hire is hard to take when you thought you were 'defending freedom'.
 
JOhnH said:
If their peers voted more we would be in worse shape than we are.
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Oh yeah, I forgot: so-called "conservatives" want to keep as many people from voting as they can! :rolleyes:
 
As is sometimes the case, we have something in common. Neither one of us has a clue what you're talking about!
 
For those of the younger generations, I promise you this: the day will eventually come when your children's generation will blame you for all the ills of the world!
 
Bob Noel said:
<sigh> how long does it take to vote?

Do realize how pathetic it makes you sound when you claim that working for a living doesn't give people enough free time to vote once every 2 years?

Maybe a doctor (or the like) on call for a 24 hour shift would have an excuse. On the other hand, anyone can get an absentee ballot (even quicker to get than the time required to vote on election day).
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It's 35 miles for me to drive to vote from work. 8 miles from my home in the opposite direction of work, I go in EARLY most days. My bet is retirees wouldn't vote as much if they had other **** to do. As it is now, voting is a social function for them.
 
Palmpilot said:
It's not necessary to go to the polls to vote.

I think the real reason younger people don't vote as much is things like apathy, lack of interest, resignation, etc.
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Give us no need for a job and $1,300 a month... We'll show up.
 
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bartmc said:
Give us no need for a job and $1,300 a month... We'll show up.
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There is NO age group that doesn't vote in what they consider to be their own best interests. So what?

You're also still ignoring the fact that going to the polls is not a requirement for voting.

And if the younger generations aren't concerned enough to mail in their ballots, apparently they don't consider these issues as important as they're being made out to be in this thread.
 
bartmc said:
It's 35 miles for me to drive to vote from work. 8 miles from my home in the opposite direction of work, I go in EARLY most days. My bet is retirees wouldn't vote as much if they had other **** to do. As it is now, voting is a social function for them.
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Most boomers haven't retired yet. (you complain about that too). So that blows your argument about how they can vote.
I find a way to vote every election. I offer my employees paid time off to vote (even though I suspect they would all vote "wrong"). So far, none of the ones under 40 have ever taken me up on it.
 
Palmpilot said:
For those of the younger generations, I promise you this: the day will eventually come when your children's generation will blame you for all the ills of the world!
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Nope we will write in the history books that we saved the empire by sending all the boomers into gas chambers.:D
Oh how thankful they shall be.
 
Palmpilot said:
There is NO age group that doesn't vote in what they consider to be their own best interests. So what?

You're also still ignoring the fact that going to the polls is not a requirement for voting.

And if the younger generations aren't concerned enough to mail in their ballots, apparently they don't consider these issues as important as they're being made out to be in this thread.
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Voting is of zero importance when the same thing will happen regardless of whom for one votes. The direction of the nation has not altered in the slightest since Nixon first went to China. Even in the midst of their worst human rights abuses, we vested them with "Most Favored Nation" trade status where we would have been embargoing anyone else.
 
Henning said:
Voting is of zero importance when the same thing will happen regardless of whom for one votes. The direction of the nation has not altered in the slightest since Nixon first went to China. Even in the midst of their worst human rights abuses, we vested them with "Most Favored Nation" trade status where we would have been embargoing anyone else.
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Can I use that argument when I am accused of being in the generation that elected those lying, scumbag politicians for the past 50 years? It didn'tmatter who we voted for.

But I think the whole mess really escalated when we allowed women to vote.
 
ClimbnSink said:
Nope we will write in the history books that we saved the empire by sending all the boomers into gas chambers.:D
Oh how thankful they shall be.
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Will your own grandmother be the first one to go?
 
JOhnH said:
So I think I am going to take every $ I get from social security and spend it on booze and parties and I will thank each and every one of you young people for being so generous.
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Wait wait, you're going to invite me at least right? :lol:

I'd still drink with most of you even if you are those "boomer" things everyone's talking about recently. :cheers:

Hating each other isn't going to solve the problem. Deal with what you are dealt. Even if it sucks. My boomer dad got me through college and a pilot's license with no debt. Even if he can be a pain from time to time, I owe him a great deal.
 
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Palmpilot said:
There is NO age group that doesn't vote in what they consider to be their own best interests. So what?

You're also still ignoring the fact that going to the polls is not a requirement for voting.

And if the younger generations aren't concerned enough to mail in their ballots, apparently they don't consider these issues as important as they're being made out to be in this thread.
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If their $1,300 a month check depended on it. They'd be there. I would have no idea how to get a mail in ballot. They used to mail them to me unsolicited at my last house. Haven't seen one since I moved. I voted this past election though. Didn't see a "no SS" guy running on the ballot or I would have voted for him.
 
overdrive148 said:
Wait wait, you're going to invite me at least right? :lol:
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Tell you what; when I visit your airport, I will take you out for a drink (as long as I am spending the night there, otherwise, just lunch).
What is that airport again?
 
JOhnH said:
Tell you what; when I visit your airport, I will take you out for a drink (as long as I am spending the night there, otherwise, just lunch).
What is that airport again?
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KSNL! Shawnee regional :yes: :thumbsup:.. Or one in OKC where I live. I'd make the drive!
 
Henning said:
Voting is of zero importance when the same thing will happen regardless of whom for one votes...
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First of all, two words: Supreme Court.

Who gets elected to federal office, especially the presidency, has a HUGE effect on the nation, via the type of justices who get on the court. That's why voter apathy is so tragic.

Secondly, I am unable to convince myself that a President Gore would have had us invading Iraq, instead of finishing off al Qaeda.

Third, I see no evidence that anything would have been done about people being denied health insurance if the other party had taken power in 2008.
 
JOhnH said:
Can I use that argument when I am accused of being in the generation that elected those lying, scumbag politicians for the past 50 years? It didn'tmatter who we voted for.

But I think the whole mess really escalated when we allowed women to vote.
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Correct, who you voted for was irrelevant, it was your support of a corrupt, unconstitutional, economic system, and sending children to war to defend it is what you will be judged and damned for.
 
Palmpilot said:
First of all, two words: Supreme Court.

Who gets elected to federal office, especially the presidency, has a HUGE effect on the nation, via the type of justices who get on the court. That's why voter apathy is so tragic.

Secondly, I am unable to convince myself that a President Gore would have had us invading Iraq, instead of finishing off al Qaeda.

Third, I see no evidence that anything would have been done about people being denied health insurance if the other party had taken power in 2008.
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Ok, you have pointed out a couple of the benefits of a two party system. People keep forgetting that at one time we had a one-party system, but that didn't last long for some reason.
 
JOhnH said:
Ok, you have pointed out a couple of the benefits of a two party system. People keep forgetting that at one time we had a one-party system, but that didn't last long for some reason.
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We still have a one party system, The Federal Reserve. Everything else is just a distraction, and since the same families that own the controlling interest of the member banks also own the controlling interest of the multinational conglomerates that own all the media outlets, they are very good at distracting with soap operas.
 
Henning said:
We still have a one party system, The Federal Reserve. Everything else is just a distraction, and since the same families that own the controlling interest of the member banks also own the controlling interest of the multinational conglomerates that own all the media outlets, they are very good at distracting with soap operas.
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Just to be clear, since this is a thread about boomers, are you blaming the boomers for that?
 
bartmc said:
If their $1,300 a month check depended on it. They'd be there.
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It sounds like you agree with me about voters of all ages being motivated by self interest.

I would have no idea how to get a mail in ballot. They used to mail them to me unsolicited at my last house. Haven't seen one since I moved. I voted this past election though.
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Have boomers been preventing you from Googling "mail in ballot"? :rofl:

Didn't see a "no SS" guy running on the ballot or I would have voted for him.
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Primaries are where the REAL decisions get made, IMO.
 
Palmpilot said:
It sounds like you agree with me about voters of all ages being motivated by self interest.



Have boomers been preventing you from Googling "mail in ballot"? :rofl:



Primaries are where the REAL decisions get made, IMO.
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I have no need for a mail-in ballot, not sure why i'd waste time googling for it.

and voting for self interests is why we have the mess we have in DC today. I'm not sold that it's the best idea for putting people in office. At least not the mob rule version we have today.
 
Cool thread. I tend not to get worked up about these things. The sky has been falling for all of our lives. Breathless proclamations that'll it'll soon come crashing down have failed to come to fruition for decades.

We're doin' alright in this country, at least. We've got some problems but we'll work through them. Older generations will continue to blame youth for the country's ills, and the youth will continue to believe the older generations are holding the nation back. There is probably a bit of truth to both of those charges, but as a member of the "youth" I'll recuse myself from a determination of which is more true.

Change is tough. But as usual, it ain't that bad™.
 
asechrest said:
Cool thread. I tend not to get worked up about these things. The sky has been falling for all of our lives. Breathless proclamations that'll it'll soon come crashing down have failed to come to fruition for decades.

We're doin' alright in this country, at least. We've got some problems but we'll work through them. Older generations will continue to blame youth for the country's ills, and the youth will continue to believe the older generations are holding the nation back. There is probably a bit of truth to both of those charges, but as a member of the "youth" I'll recuse myself from a determination of which is more true.

Change is tough. But as usual, it ain't that bad™.
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SS on a collision course for bankruptcy and our debt are HUGE problems. sticking your head in the sand and saying "we will get through it" is why the mess keeps getting bigger.
 
bartmc said:
Nope, but they didn't hold up their end of the bargain. Didn't have enough kids to keep it going, have raided it, and will soon milk it dry. Oh, and they're living longer than expected with no means to pay for their extended life span and are therefore exceptionally dependent on SS.

I love that the boomers scream that politicans promised them that SS would be there for the taking and they believe that. But for some reason they're not supposed to belive the part where they were told not to depend on it.
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The Boomers couldn't afford to have more kids. The ones they had were /are still bleeding them dry.
 
bartmc said:
I have no need for a mail-in ballot, not sure why i'd waste time googling for it.
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When you mentioned not knowing how to get one, I assumed it was relevant to the discussion somehow. My mistake.

and voting for self interests is why we have the mess we have in DC today. I'm not sold that it's the best idea for putting people in office. At least not the mob rule version we have today.
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No argument there. I'm just saying that it's human nature, and not something that's exclusive to boomers.
 
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