The Baby Boomer Poll

When baby boomers were born, there were half as many people in the world as there are now. The Houston Chronicle reported in Feb 2000 that every three days, the amount of new births equal a city the size of San Francisco, which is equivalant to about 3 babies every second. Please react to this information with one of the following choices:

Our nation has been filling landfills for so many years, that in even in beautiful San Diego, they only have between 5 and 15 years left before all of their space is used up. Boston and San Francisco are both built on landfills. (hence the massive damage when the earth quakes occured)... How much has the baby boomer generation done to remedy this problem?

Since the human body is composed roughly of 70% water, is all of our fresh water walking around in human form?

If you answered 'what does this have to do with baby boomers?', do you understand how much the population increased with their generation? And that all the children THEY had drink water each day?

In 1908, Ford invented the Model T, and it got 25 miles to the gallon. Ford vehicles today on average get about 19 mpg. This is quite pathetic, yet they have the nerve to claim '100 years of innovation'. How many baby boomers do you know that drive fords?

The baby boomer generation accounts for the greatest population increase this planet has ever seen. Hence the term 'Baby Boomers'. Keeping this in mind, it is hard for me to understand why their generation wasn't responsible for creating the greatest public transportation system in history. Why do YOU think they 'never got around' to doing this?

Most baby boomers had the idea in their head that their children "should go to college, and get a good education" It seems that it never occured to them that if ALL their kids went to college, then everyone would have degrees, rendering college degrees the new high school diploma. Do you think this was a baby boomer conspriracy to waste an extra four years of our lives? Or was it simply a way for them to make more money off all the things that go along with college... ie: tuition, backpacks and school supplies, apartment rentals, books, food costs, coffee, phone bills from calling long distance, gasoline from students driving home every weekend, etc. ...

Many baby boomers have tried to use the excuse that they are "just too busy to recycle", yet they have just as many hours in a day as the people in Japan, who have five separate bins to separate their trash and recyclables, and work more hours every year on average than Americans. Why do they still try to use this as an excuse?

One of the reasons baby boomers are still working (into their twilight years) is because many of them tried to day-trade their 401k s and make themselves rich, and it backfired. Gambling their savings suddeny meant that they would have to work longer to make up for their 'loss'. They now, of course, refuse to retire, because that would mean admitting their failure, AND having to retire with less money than they were planning on. Which is another reason why our housing prices have risen so dramaically recently. (and let's not forget baby boomers all want to believe they've "made it" and that they own a half-million dollar house.) So they're all trying to sell their two bedroom, one bath 1000-sq ft houses for $650,000... which is intresting; how do we buy a house that expensive when no job pays enough to spend that much? What can the next the generation do to counter this problem? (Remember: WE can't start working until THEY retire...)

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