“the awesome size of Boomer voting power and the generation’s demonstrable interest in using that power to promote its own agenda at… — Bruce Cannon Gibney Democracy Copy Share Image
“The sociopaths’ goal is to wring every last dollar from the system, and any investment that could not be fully realized within… — Bruce Cannon Gibney Flower child Copy Share Image
“In the 1960s, when Boomers were on campus, public colleges charged nominal, and often zero, annual tuition; today, in-state tuition runs around… — Bruce Cannon Gibney Copy Share Image
“courts are getting out of that business and in doing so, are giving Boomer legislatures a freer hand to whittle away at… — Bruce Cannon Gibney Business Copy Share Image
“America suffers from its present predicament because a large group of small-minded people chose the leaders and actions that led to our… — Bruce Cannon Gibney Bad behavior Copy Share Image
“Instead of providing education and opportunity, Boomers focused their energies on the creation of an unforgiving penal state, furnished” — Bruce Cannon Gibney Education Copy Share Image
“The 1970s were also the last decade in which the working class experienced meaningful wage growth.20” — Bruce Cannon Gibney Working class Copy Share Image
“The unavoidable fact is that the nation is currently run by people who have a deep and unshakable relationship with TV, entranced… — Bruce Cannon Gibney Success Copy Share Image
“Given that people spend more than twice as many hours watching TV than they do socializing, TV sets the tone for all… — Bruce Cannon Gibney Communication Copy Share Image
“Gabler wraps up by citing the statistic that 21 percent of Americans view a lottery win as the most practical way to… — Bruce Cannon Gibney Money Copy Share Image
“[Sociopaths] may have a history of many sexual partners… They may have associated disorders… substance use disorders… and other disorders of impulse… — Bruce Cannon Gibney History Copy Share Image
“In a 2014 survey, a majority of Boomers did not know that humans descended from earlier forms of animal.” — Bruce Cannon Gibney Copy Share Image
“Even a plague of generational locusts like the Boomers can do only so much damage in a lifetime, however unduly prolonged that… — Bruce Cannon Gibney Copy Share Image
“around 24 to 30 percent of Americans fifty-five to sixty-four and older believed that the sun revolves around the earth,” — Bruce Cannon Gibney Nature Copy Share Image
“The choices, as often noted, were less than ideal. Hillary Clinton, the longtime fixture of the Boomer establishment, viewed her nomination in… — Bruce Cannon Gibney Common denominator Copy Share Image
“Hoover and Mellon did more than history gives them credit for (i.e., they did more than absolutely nothing) and it’s never been… — Bruce Cannon Gibney History Copy Share Image
“TV’s essential characteristics make it the perfect education for sociopaths, facilitating deceit, acquisitiveness, intransigence, and validating a worldview only loosely tethered to… — Bruce Cannon Gibney Copy Share Image
“The $1.3+ trillion in educational debt in the first quarter of 2016, which has overtaken credit card debt over the past decade,… — Bruce Cannon Gibney Credit card Copy Share Image
“What happened to the future? The Boomers did; they sold it off piece by piece. And” — Bruce Cannon Gibney Time Copy Share Image
“That the economy has failed to live up to its promise is bad enough. That the Boomers have not made investments in… — Bruce Cannon Gibney Investing Copy Share Image
“The opportunities of the coming years should be seized; for issues like climate and debt, the elections of the coming years may… — Bruce Cannon Gibney Democracy Copy Share Image
“Because of high infant mortality—even in the nineteenth century, it was not uncommon for 20 percent of children to die before age… — Bruce Cannon Gibney Children Copy Share Image
“Indeed, self-focus would become a primary motivation of the Boomers’ neoliberal reforms after 1980, where retention of income took precedence over its… — Bruce Cannon Gibney Investing Copy Share Image
“Taxes occupy a strange position in the emotional landscape, oscillating between moments of great passion (April 15 and election days) and near-lethal… — Bruce Cannon Gibney Change Copy Share Image
“Obama was far more conservative than Richard Nixon, for example, and this has been the Democratic story since Boomers started voting en… — Bruce Cannon Gibney Big government Copy Share Image