“In a 2014 survey, a majority of Boomers did not know that humans descended from earlier forms of animal.” — Bruce Cannon Gibney Boomers Copy Share Image
“What happened to the future? The Boomers did; they sold it off piece by piece. And” — Bruce Cannon Gibney Boomers Copy Share Image
“The 1970s were also the last decade in which the working class experienced meaningful wage growth.20” — Bruce Cannon Gibney Copy Share Image
“over the next thirty years. After World War II, the highest maximum rates reached 70–91 percent. Were” — Bruce Cannon Gibney Copy Share Image
“Nowhere did sociopathic avarice, deceit, imprudence, and political power combine more powerfully than in tax policy, which allowed the Boomers to reshuffle… — Bruce Cannon Gibney Boomers 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 Copy Share Image
“And Boomer (and thus American) politics will continue to be driven by life cycle, with the Boomers’ desire to maintain old-age benefits… — Bruce Cannon Gibney American politics Copy Share Image
“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 Boomer Copy Share Image
“What establishes the Boomers as a political generation is that the Boomers’ overriding policy ambitions have been defined not in conventional terms… — Bruce Cannon Gibney Life 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
“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 Education 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
“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 Boomers 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 Lottery 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
“Stitched together, they produce a cohesive and unsettling narrative of a generation that—in the many decades it has dominated political and corporate… — Bruce Cannon Gibney Corporate america Copy Share Image
“The Boomers’ numerosity meant that even a modest tilt in any one direction (self-serving sociopathy, as a pointed example) influenced outcomes profoundly.… — Bruce Cannon Gibney Boomers 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
“The Boomers were the first modern generation to harbor really negative feelings about reality and science, and their success in undermining these… — Bruce Cannon Gibney Boomers 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
“The various and dispiriting candidates of recent years have offered their own explanations for the mystery of American underperformance, though being mainly… — Bruce Cannon Gibney Federal government 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
“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 Boomers Copy Share Image
“The only modern presidents to really succeed in education (in limited ways) were Eisenhower and Johnson; the former, because he had very… — Bruce Cannon Gibney Cold war 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
“Concerns about bankruptcy abuses prompted Congress to crack down in 2005, decades after it unlocked the bankruptcy door for the Boomers. Like… — Bruce Cannon Gibney Child support Copy Share Image
“The sociopathic society of consumption depends heavily on goods turned out by dismal sweatshops (e.g., Boomer Kathie Lee’s/Wal-Mart’s Dickensian workshops, Boomers Steve… — Bruce Cannon Gibney Copy Share Image
“Feelings would be the great enabler, allowing Boomers to undermine the whole edifice of fact and reason in favor of personal truth,… — Bruce Cannon Gibney Boomers 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 Boomers 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
“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
“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
“Once Boomers have been unseated, undoing their decades of mismanagement will require a significant social reorganization, especially of retirement and health-care benefits,… — Bruce Cannon Gibney Boomers 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 Boomers Copy Share Image
“The point of this context is not to demand a return to the era of 90 percent taxation, but simply to remind… — Bruce Cannon Gibney Taxes 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 Sociopaths Copy Share Image
“Reform and its consequences may be intolerable for many Boomers, who resent putting others’ needs ahead of their own, and prefer expedience… — Bruce Cannon Gibney Boomers 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 Boomers Copy Share Image
“The pastoral Left, religious Right, and everywhere in between were afflicted by a resurgent sentimentality and desire for immediate gratification incompatible with… — Bruce Cannon Gibney Desire Copy Share Image
