- Disproportionately
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- Nov 07, 2020
Boomers Quotes
Views on a generation now heading into retirement.
This page gathers commentary on baby boomers as they age into retirement, touching on healthcare strain, Social Security, and what a generation that large does to an economy. If generational contrast interests you, follow it with Generation quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Gen
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- Nov 07, 2020
Gen Y consume most of their media online and mobile. Gen Y, as the Baby Boomers drop off, are the largest cohort with the largest amount of money - despite the fact that half of them are unemployed.
- Distinguishing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The language of freedom-fighting was so co-opted by the baby boomers in order to express their now-hopelessly compromised ideologies that no other generation could emulate it without a smirk. This has created an apathetic generation in the West, with young people no longer distinguishing between the old order and the new.
- Internet
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- Nov 07, 2020
While I do occasionally order items on the Internet, it's hard to teach an old shopper new tricks. I'm convinced that the catalogue will eventually disappear, but not until the last baby boomers have kicked off their smelly Nikes and been buried in mulch.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that retiring the baby boomers is going to be one of the great challenges in America, that you cannot make fiscal sense out of the future of our children without taking on entitlements.
- Nov 07, 2020
We wanted a supporting cast that would appeal to Baby Boomers who grew up in the fifties.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our country also hungers for leadership to ensure the long-term survival of our Social Security system. With 70 million baby boomers in this country on the verge of retirement, we need to take action to shore up the system.
- Greatest Generation
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- Nov 07, 2020
World War II brought the Greatest Generation together. Vietnam tore the Baby Boomers apart.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
Today, Medicare provides health insurance to about 40 million seniors and disabled individuals each year. The number is only expected to grow as the baby boomers begin retiring.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Maybe it will be a great thing when the Baby Boomers finally die out. In real life, it's not a matter of the good guys or the bad guys. Rather, it's big numbers and small numbers that do the counting.
- Lot
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- Nov 07, 2020
But there's a lot of 50's and a lot of boomers and a lot of kids in their 30's that grew up with us.
- Bad Habits
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Boomers have modeled a set of bad habits, and one grand gesture is not going to unwind all those bad habits.
- Comfort
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like the 'little emperors' of one-child China, too many Boomers were taught early that the world was made (or saved) for their comfort and enjoyment. They behaved accordingly, with a self-indulgence that was wholly rational, given their situation.
- Aging
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Boomers will eventually have to accept that it is not possible to stay forever young or to stop aging. But it is possible, by committing to show up for others in community after community, to earn a measure of immortality.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020