Hey old people

[yoda291]

Before you completed your transitions from cynical youngins to cynical old folk,
were you of the opinion that the country was heading down the tubes and disagreed with the government?

I'm wondering if it's just a phase all people go through, like teenage angst and rebellion.

 

[Maximus Power]

Why don't you ask your parents.....

 

[yoda291]

Originally posted by: Maximus Power
Why don't you ask your parents.....

I did, they are both immigrants tho so it's different.

 

[Zim Hosein]

/me waits for the old people!

 

[yoda291]

Originally posted by: Zim Hosein
/me waits for the old people!

well, I figure it'll take them a while to get their rockers and hobble on over without breaking a hip or something.

 

[shimsham]

eh? speak up, son!

 

[Fenixgoon]

Originally posted by: yoda291

Originally posted by: Zim Hosein
/me waits for the old people!

well, I figure it'll take them a while to get their rockers and hobble on over without breaking a hip or something.

hahahaha... call in brutuskend, i hear he's getting up there only kidding!!!

 

[Conky]

Get off my lawn, you damn kids!!!!

*goes back to sleep*

:beer:

 

[bret]

what do you consider old?

 

[FoBoT]

sorta i guess

 

[Maximus Power]

Originally posted by: yoda291

Originally posted by: Zim Hosein
/me waits for the old people!

well, I figure it'll take them a while to get their rockers and hobble on over without breaking a hip or something.

You had to say "break a hip".....

Dag nab it!

I've fallen, and I can't squeeze my my life alert button!

 

[artikk]

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The graying of America isn't a new story; it has been with us for years. In 2000 older adults comprised close to 13% of the U.S. population. By the year 2030, when the last of the baby boomers reaches 65 years of age, the older adult population will nearly double and will represent one-fifth of all Americans. (1)

The older adult demographic is only part of the picture. Equally noteworthy are data recently presented by the University of Illinois, School of Nursing (2) that call attention to the shrinking numbers of the workforce of the future, those age 18 to 64. Between 2000 and 2030 the ratio of potential workers (age 18 to 64) to older adults (ages 65 and over) dramatically decreases from 4.8 to1 to a surprising 2.8 to 1.

The implication of this demographic on the viability of social security and Medicare is clear; there will fewer workers to financially support critical retiree programs. A second and equally serious implication is whether there will be a health care workforce sufficiently large enough to care for the elderly of the future. This month's message focuses on the long-term care needs of the aging population, the settings in which this care is provided and the challenges they suggest for the health care workforce.

 

[myusername]

Am I reading the OP correctly? You are asking if youthful exuberance, hope, and a positive outlook are a phase?

 

[Analog]

Originally posted by: yoda291
Before you completed your transitions from cynical youngins to cynical old folk,
were you of the opinion that the country was heading down the tubes and disagreed with the government?

I'm wondering if it's just a phase all people go through, like teenage angst and rebellion.

Nope, you pay taxes over the years, and then become a republican.

:beer:

 

[yoda291]

Originally posted by: myusername
Am I reading the OP correctly? You are asking if youthful exuberance, hope, and a positive outlook are a phase?

no silly, you have it backwards, I'm asking if cynical, deranged bitterness towards your environment in your 20s is a phase.

[bret]:

If you broke your hip trying to respond, then you're definitely old. Otherwise, it's up to you how old you feel.

 

[NTB]

Originally posted by: Crazyfool
Get off my lawn, you damn kids!!!!

*goes back to sleep*

:beer:

You forgot to throw something at 'em. Always keep a newspaper handy. Or just use all those baseballs they've sent through your window over the years

Nate

 

[flexy]

Originally posted by: yoda291
Before you completed your transitions from cynical youngins to cynical old folk,
were you of the opinion that the country was heading down the tubes and disagreed with the government?

I'm wondering if it's just a phase all people go through, like teenage angst and rebellion.

no..its actually just a phase i am going thru since i a entered this country (2000) and Bush became president.

Also....i tend to say that more young ones will agree that this country goes downhill as well as 98% of all other people with some brain cells and common sense

 

[yoda291]

Originally posted by: flexy

Originally posted by: yoda291
Before you completed your transitions from cynical youngins to cynical old folk,
were you of the opinion that the country was heading down the tubes and disagreed with the government?

I'm wondering if it's just a phase all people go through, like teenage angst and rebellion.

no..its actually just a phase i am going thru since i a entered this country (2000) and Bush became president.

Also....i tend to say that more young ones will agree that this country goes downhill as well as 98% of all other people with some brain cells and common sense

right, but the question is were people of past generations also of this opinion in their less than golden years.

 

[Maximus Power]

Originally posted by: yoda291
Before you completed your transitions from cynical youngins to cynical old folk,
were you of the opinion that the country was heading down the tubes and disagreed with the government?

I'm wondering if it's just a phase all people go through, like teenage angst and rebellion.

I went through the teenage angst and rebellion also.
I think that it was the beginning of the understanding that you shouldn't
believe everything the "experts" or what anyone really has to say literally.
Not saying that you shouldn't listen, but everything should be taken as an
opinion and the decision should be yours.

With all of that information, your eyes become open to whats really going on
over time.

 

[lowfatbaconboy]

i fear this will descend into a P&N debate quickly

 

[yoda291]

Originally posted by: lowfatbaconboy
i fear this will descend into a P&N debate quickly

well, the advantage of asking old people is that, any minute now, they'll forget what they said and, at worst, they just start repeating themselves.

 

[WildHorse]

Originally posted by: yoda291
Before you completed your transitions from cynical youngins to cynical old folk,
were you of the opinion that the country was heading down the tubes and disagreed with the government?

Absolutely "Y E S" ! ! !

During the Pres. Johnson & Prez. Nixon Vietnam war years I actually believed, from my viewpoint, civil war would break out in the streets of America any day now.

The country and whole culture was so totally polarized between young/old that you wouldn't believe it. Way way more than now. Through politics, music, sex, drugs, & everything eelse, it was like a huge tug of war between young & old.

Young people were actively crusading to break up lots of old cultural archetypes, with far more turbulent energy than through the normal political debate we see now. We saw that as "saving" civilization from the old people who were destroying everything through rabid consumerism & police state & war.

Now at the major university 4 miles from me, the young people seem totally submerged back into "me first, i want to get for me" attitude. Every day I see lots of 20 year olds driving BMWs & Porches. They go on expensive foreign travel, have real nice aparatments, etc. Much different attitude than when I attended college, lived for a year in a sleeping bag in bushes, showered in the gym.

 

[Gurck]

Being what you'd probably consider an 'over the hill, crusty denture-wearing cane user' (27), I'm probably qualified to answer. While I've always believed the country's going down the crapper and still do - and have seen it in action, since my memories date back to before 1990 (amazing ain't it sonny?), I don't necessarily disagree with the government.

 

[yoda291]

Originally posted by: Gurck
Being what you'd probably consider an 'over the hill, crusty denture-wearing cane user' (27), I'm probably qualified to answer. While I've always believed the country's going down the crapper and still do - and have seen it in action, since my memories date back to before 1990 (amazing ain't it sonny?), I don't necessarily disagree with the government.

funny, my memories from 1990 were of playing stickball in the school lot.

 

[CPA]

I never really thought the country was head down the tubes, call me an optomist, but I did change my views once I saw how much uncle same was taking out of my paycheck and figured out where it was all going/who was trying to get their hands on it.

BTW, I still don't think this country is heading down the tubes.