#1 2011-12-13 11:57:10
No link--sorry. Use your imaginations--read the following out loud and make your voices crack uncontrollably.
Diane Rehm is talking about kids that move back home after college. I want to punch walls.
They're all talking about how kids are having a "failure to launch" or they just don't want to grow up. They say people my age delay marriage and kids so they can dick around during their 20s. In true Boomer fashion, they're discussing how this phenomenon affects them and their ability to enjoy their retirements.
When my parents' generation graduated college, tuition was about $2,000 a year and they could get a house for $20,000. Since they became the Me generation and voted in Reagan, right on through to the Tea Party, they have been doing everything in their power to cut the Department of Education and federal mortgage subsidies, destroy unions, etc. In the meantime, they've been increasing THEIR benefits like Medicare, and cutting THEIR taxes. It's one thing for them to bequeath us a government that is structurally unable to help and a burning husk of an economy; it's another thing altogether to call us lazy.
The panel is entirely women. They tried to get a male boomerang kid to talk, but couldn't find ONE. Nobody on the panel can figure out why.
*UPDATE* A 60-year-old just called in to say that he moved back in with his mother because he couldn't get work. In HIS case, it's the economy.
*UPDATE 2* As boomers are contractually obligated to do, somebody used the term "tech-savvy" to describe us.
If anybody replies "vote" there will be severe repercussions.
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#2 2011-12-13 12:13:54
Well, our son started college, and he is still here. His school is located in our town, and with the economy it has affected many of the young adults.
This is the way it has always been except for a couple of generations.
Due to his college fees, I shan't be "retiring" until I am in my late 70's if he doesn't find work. And, I am okay with that. He is pursuing his dreams.
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#3 2011-12-13 12:26:44
ah297900 wrote:
In true Boomer fashion, they're discussing how this phenomenon affects them and their ability to enjoy their retirements.
When my parents' generation graduated college, tuition was about $2,000 a year and they could get a house for $20,000.
Born at the peak of the baby boom in 1954, I eagerly suggest you blow me.
Ign'rant dickwads are evenly distributed throughout the population.
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#4 2011-12-13 12:29:54
At least you're not calling him lazy.
I had to move home for a while after I got my Master's degree. I finally got a $22k/year job after an 8-month 50+hour/week unpaid internship. The whole time I was living at home, I had to hear about how lazy young people like me were, coming from a generation who could get a decent job most anywhere with a BA that cost them somewhere in the four figures.
If your son is planning on doing any kind of work that could remotely be described as "rewarding" or "interesting," there's a good chance he'll have to move back home. If he does, you need to be aware that it's going to be deeply emasculating for him, and that living there will put him in a generally shitty, angry state.
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#5 2011-12-13 12:37:51
choad wrote:
ah297900 wrote:
In true Boomer fashion, they're discussing how this phenomenon affects them and their ability to enjoy their retirements.
When my parents' generation graduated college, tuition was about $2,000 a year and they could get a house for $20,000.Born at the peak of the baby boom in 1954, I eagerly suggest you blow me.
Ign'rant dickwads are evenly distributed throughout the population.
What are you saying, that your generation doesn't skew conservative? Or that your generation didn't have an easier time entering the job market?
I know you're not using your own personal views as proof that a broader trend among tens of millions of people doesn't exist.
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#6 2011-12-13 13:40:05
Human ignorance, idiocy and greed knows no age limits.
I spent the weekend on Nantucket, greed's planetary capital, where I spent $15 for an order of fish & chips. I could smell that rotten fish before it reached the table and I'm still recovering. The 20-something cook obviously didn't give a fuck was probably about your age. Should I generalize from that?
The only thing you can say for sure is older people vote their self interest in greater numbers.
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#7 2011-12-13 14:01:28
http://articles.latimes.com/2010/feb/24 … -2010feb25
I still don't understand what your point is. The tea party does, in fact, skew older. It also skews white--you wouldn't argue that, would you? "I know a white 20-year old--your logic is false." Are you saying that different generations don't have different characters--that the generation growing up now will have the same worldview and politics as the generation that grew up in the Depression?
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#8 2011-12-13 14:17:22
I'm almost 40 and I live at home.
What's your problem!
I love living with mommy and daddy.
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#9 2011-12-13 15:33:05
ah297900 wrote:
http://articles.latimes.com/2010/feb/24 … -2010feb25
I still don't understand what your point is. The tea party does, in fact, skew older. It also skews white--you wouldn't argue that, would you?
The tea party is a harbinger of midlife crisis, not political crisis. For men of a certain age, it offers a counterculture experience familiar from adolescence -- underground radio, esoteric tracts, consciousness-raising teach-ins and rallies replete with extroverted behavior to shock the squares -- all paid for with ample cash.
BWHAHAHA
Right on my brothers, let your freak flag fly.
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#10 2011-12-13 18:20:08
Johnny_Rotten wrote:
ah297900 wrote:
http://articles.latimes.com/2010/feb/24 … -2010feb25
I still don't understand what your point is. The tea party does, in fact, skew older. It also skews white--you wouldn't argue that, would you?The tea party is a harbinger of midlife crisis, not political crisis. For men of a certain age, it offers a counterculture experience familiar from adolescence -- underground radio, esoteric tracts, consciousness-raising teach-ins and rallies replete with extroverted behavior to shock the squares -- all paid for with ample cash.
BWHAHAHA
Right on my brothers, let your freak flag fly.
Very interesting, I hadn't heard that analysis before. I like it even though have some problems with it. For example it's doubtful that very many present-day tea-baggers were hippie radicals in their youth. Perhaps it's sour grapes in sour Depends; Idiots who were too busy toeing the line to worry about Viet Nam or civil rights back in the day are now acting out Yippies and Panthers. Also, sticking it to the Man and sticking it to the grandkids are two very different things.
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#11 2011-12-13 20:11:59
Boomerang kids come from Helicopter parents.
Let your kids fail and feel pain. It's the only way they will every recognize happiness when it really does come to them.
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#12 2011-12-13 23:45:31
Perhaps you can invent Carousel and solve the problem.
Renew!
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#13 2011-12-14 05:54:50
Geez, people. Think like an Asian or south American. If your kids move back in with you, you can all pool resources. It makes paying utilities and property taxes easier, and the kids get a chance save up some cash, too.
I need to see if the show is online.
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#14 2011-12-14 11:39:06
square wrote:
Perhaps you can invent Carousel and solve the problem.
http://moviesmedia.ign.com/movies/image … 738922.jpg
Renew!
What's that from? I think I need to see it.
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#15 2011-12-14 19:16:45
ah297900 wrote:
square wrote:
Perhaps you can invent Carousel and solve the problem.
http://moviesmedia.ign.com/movies/image … 738922.jpg
Renew!What's that from? I think I need to see it.
Pffft. You are a fetus. Who's a lil' fetus? You are!!
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#16 2011-12-14 20:05:11
I've seen that, Methuselette. I just don't remember the Carousel, unfortunately. Compounding that misfortune is the fact that I have vivid goddamn memories of that ice cave robot.
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#17 2011-12-14 21:06:53
ah297900 wrote:
Methuselette.
I wonder if I can have business cards made...
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#18 2011-12-14 21:42:13
Noah's grandmother, huh? I prefer the more ecumenical 'Old Fuck'.
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#19 2011-12-15 00:06:58
I just turned 50 a few weeks ago; 6 1/2 years ago, with $56,000 in credit card debt, I had to leave Atlanta and move back to my childhood home in a shitty little nigger town with no job opportunities back then, or even now on the horizon...
Now, I spend much of my time taking care of my 90-year-old semi-senile mother.
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#20 2011-12-15 11:39:43
You have a gift for eliciting sympathy...
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#21 2011-12-15 18:52:25
AladdinSane wrote:
I just turned 50 a few weeks ago; 6 1/2 years ago, with $56,000 in credit card debt, I had to leave Atlanta and move back to my childhood home in a shitty little nigger town with no job opportunities back then, or even now on the horizon...
Now, I spend much of my time taking care of my 90-year-old semi-senile mother.
I would think you're noble for taking care of your mother, were it not for the fact that $56,000 in credit card debt means you don't have other options.
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#22 2011-12-16 08:45:35
More people who will be picking which rest home you get to die in...
Click it before I tan your hide!
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