I swim unwillingly in the trailing edge of the Baby Boom generation. Older members of my cohort have been driving me bonkers my entire life.
Ben Stein, in an interview at Money, provides another sound reason to throw tomatoes at a big chunk of my older siblings:
Q. Are you totally sanguine about the outlook for the economy?
A. No. There’s a real economic crisis highballing down the track. And that’s the baby boom’s retirement. There are going to be 20 million or 30 million people coming up quite short of the money they’ll need to live on. I’m terribly worried about that.
Q. What’s the problem with boomers?
A. A shortage of intelligent behavior. We’re a lazy, undisciplined generation.
Any recession we are or are not in will likely be short-lived, unlike the whiney boomers who will hang on well past their expiration date complaining about their self-dug hole and how somebody else should fix it.
(Hat tip: John H. Taylor at The New Nixon Blog.)
Technorati tags: Baby Boomers, Economics, Retirement.
Tags: baby boomers, economics, retirement
I’m sorry that you had unsupportive relationships with your siblings. However, I don’t think that you should condemn millions of boomers because of them.
Life is about getting joy. Are you experiencing any?
I write a blog for boomers consumers called The Survive and Thrive Boomer Guide at http://boomersurvive-thriveguide.typepad.com.
Just to be clear: my use of the word “siblings” above was a metaphor and not meant to be taken literally. It referred to older members of the Baby Boomer cohort, not my actual flesh-and-blood brother and sisters.