Do you hate the Baby boomers?

Did you read the Globe and Mail last weekend? I did not but I just found two articles on the web from that issue. We had it all and still do talks about the spoilt Baby boomer generation and We'll pay for your retirement but we won't be happy about it talks about Generation Y, and kind of X as well because we are pretty much in the same boat. Then there's a discussion about both articles. Reading the articles you can't help but end up hating baby boomers. The discussions helps a little bit to put things straight.

My most disliked comment comes from the stupid conservative baby boomer who writes "Young professionals from around the world will be clamoring to come to Canada because we have the best quality of life and a stable, relatively prosperous economy that will remain strong because of our good governance, educated people and our bonanza of natural resources. We're the envy of the world and that's not going to change any time soon." Canada with the new budget is running into deeper and deeper environmental disasters waiting to happen ... It's really not attractive to me but I suppose most immigrants come from less developed countries anyway. By the way, has she ever left the North American continent?

The Generation Y rep writes instead "I've heard from a lot of millenials who think boomers don't care at all about the environment since they won't be around to suffer through the effects of climate change. May not be the case, but when things like the environmental review process for natural resource projects are scrapped in large part in the budget, theories like that take shape..." Can you blame anybody for coming up with those theories, after all the government is run by baby boomers. They do not care about much else but their own comfort that they have acquired and don't want to give up. And if it will be the minority of boomers who care and do something to change their own environmental impact, without losing that comfort of course.

Did I mention the story where an acquaintance (she's a baby boomer) congratulated me to getting a car. And I thought, it's not an achievement to have a car in this country, it's an achievement to live without it! A couple of weeks later she asked me how life is going with the car now and I said we don't drive it much, we are not used to having a car and can't be bothered to take it everywhere. She was a bit speechless.

Anyway, there are lots of interesting comments in the discussion about for example, preventing over 70 year olds from voting to youngster get more power to shape the world they'll live in, and the controversy of keeping decrepit people alive at a high cost who are obviously not going to make it anyway, and young smart people going overseas for their education because it's cheaper, and so on. Read it, it's worth it.