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The Boomers raised an entitlement generation
Seth Stern
Issue date: 4/10/09 Section: Opinion
Last week, due to state budget shortfalls, we learned that a potentially devastating $300 million cut could hit Colorado's higher education budget. From the uproar, you would have thought the state announced they were suspending Christmas, taxing every gallon of gas $20 and canceling the ski season.
It occurred to me that everyone today between the ages of 0 to 30 has every reason to blame the Baby Boomers (a.k.a. their parents) for the utter ruination of America.
The self named "Greatest Generation" went to war to stop a tyrannical conquering of the planet on two battlefronts. They came home and swore they would raise their children to have it better than they did.
Your children became spoiled adults who helped to vote a man into the White House who had never been in charge of anything in his career. You raised children and young adults who believe they are entitled, simply by being born, to affordable college education, free health care and who knows what else.
Students who choose to attend an out-of-state school, but have the audacity to complain when tuition increases are disillusioned and further demonstrate this cancerous sense of entitlement.
I hate to be the voice of transition from one generation to the next, but I think my fellow veterans will support me in saying you aren't entitled to anything for which you haven't worked yourself.
Do you really think tuition increases are the worst thing you are going to deal with as a student during a recession teetering on the edge of a greater depression?
What are you going to do when major grocery stores go under? Whine? Protest? Riot? Try working for your survival, you'll discover all sorts of neat things about yourself -- or maybe the opposite.
When a nation's taxes do not generate enough revenues to pay for its budget, the federal government should make cuts in spending, not borrow money. It's called "living within one's means," and it is as important for nations as for individuals. But our nation elects and re-elects Congressmen who refuse to cut into the entitlements of anyone in America (including illegal immigrants).
It occurred to me that everyone today between the ages of 0 to 30 has every reason to blame the Baby Boomers (a.k.a. their parents) for the utter ruination of America.
The self named "Greatest Generation" went to war to stop a tyrannical conquering of the planet on two battlefronts. They came home and swore they would raise their children to have it better than they did.
Your children became spoiled adults who helped to vote a man into the White House who had never been in charge of anything in his career. You raised children and young adults who believe they are entitled, simply by being born, to affordable college education, free health care and who knows what else.
Students who choose to attend an out-of-state school, but have the audacity to complain when tuition increases are disillusioned and further demonstrate this cancerous sense of entitlement.
I hate to be the voice of transition from one generation to the next, but I think my fellow veterans will support me in saying you aren't entitled to anything for which you haven't worked yourself.
Do you really think tuition increases are the worst thing you are going to deal with as a student during a recession teetering on the edge of a greater depression?
What are you going to do when major grocery stores go under? Whine? Protest? Riot? Try working for your survival, you'll discover all sorts of neat things about yourself -- or maybe the opposite.
When a nation's taxes do not generate enough revenues to pay for its budget, the federal government should make cuts in spending, not borrow money. It's called "living within one's means," and it is as important for nations as for individuals. But our nation elects and re-elects Congressmen who refuse to cut into the entitlements of anyone in America (including illegal immigrants).
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Craig Hawley
posted 4/12/09 @ 6:40 PM MST
Wow , spot on man. Very nice to see a young person have such a grasp of what is being perpetrated on America , by these entitlement oriented , Nanny state loving Libs. (Continued…)
crzy1
posted 4/13/09 @ 4:47 AM MST
I believe the reason why we have seen protest on cutting funding for education, is because wasn't that one of the issues Obama ran on? He was going to put more money IN to funding for college education. (Continued…)
Jim Carlson
posted 4/13/09 @ 11:42 AM MST
Once I wade through the insanity of your radical right-wing ideology I see some merit your argument that the baby boomers have screwed up this country. (Continued…)
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