Boomers Quote by Bruce Cannon Gibney Download Open image ““What happened to the future? The Boomers did; they sold it off piece by piece. And”” — Bruce Cannon Gibney ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Boomers Boomers Did Did Sold Future Boomers Happened Future Time
“It wasn't enough that they stole our future; they had to steal our past.” — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
“The fact is that the future will not be a continuation of the past. It will be a series of discontinuities. And only by… — Rowan Gibson Copy Share Image
“The future was generic and uninteresting to them. It was just what followed after they had done what they wanted to do.” — Rick Gavin Copy Share Image
“Some have characterized the boomers as optimistic, but to my view they were simply soft and rather unprepared. They didn’t know how to cook… — Rufi Thorpe Copy Share Image
“Everything did, if left long enough to its own devices. Futures, pasts, it didn’t matter. Everything fell apart.” — Seanan McGuire 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 future prosperity… — 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 overriding all… — Bruce Cannon Gibney Copy Share Image
“Why are there so many people out here?' Boomer asked as we bobbed and weaved roughly forward. 'Christmas shopping.' I explained. 'Already? Isn't it… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
“Just because no one's managed something in the past, doesn't mean the future's lost.” — Sarah Crossan Copy Share Image
“What happened when there was no prospect of anything beyond this generation? What happened when...” — Anne Corlett Copy Share Image
“More than anything, Boomer influence is a story of sheer numbers. As of the early 1980s, when the Boomer revolution really kicked off, the… — Bruce Cannon Gibney 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 like race… — Bruce Cannon Gibney Copy Share Image
“For those readers who are Boomers, or have parents or grandparents who are Boomers, it may be of small comfort that this book does… — Bruce Cannon Gibney 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 Boomer lifetimes… — Bruce Cannon Gibney 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 the uncompromising… — Bruce Cannon Gibney 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, and a… — Bruce Cannon Gibney 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 that in… — Bruce Cannon Gibney 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 Jobs’/Tim Cook’s… — Bruce Cannon Gibney Copy Share Image
“Reagan (or, at least, the public’s version of him) was tailor-made for the sociopathic electorate. Never again would the Boomers be told to save,… — Bruce Cannon Gibney Copy Share Image
“Unfortunately, sociopaths are antisocial by nature, and their lack of empathy and foresight consigns them to view society only as a restraint on individual… — Bruce Cannon Gibney Copy Share Image
“What Washington cannot easily change is the culture itself—specifically the culture created by the Boomers. Until that happens, the parade of mediocrity, underfunding, and… — Bruce Cannon Gibney Copy Share Image
“Yet GenX'er teens didn't slow down--they were just as likely to drive, drink alcohol, and date as their Boomer peers and more likely to… — Jean M. Twenge Copy Share Image
“He thought rightly that we Americans, by inclination at least, have been divided into two kinds: “boomers” and “stickers.” Boomers, he said, are “those… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
I don't know if the idea of a career in show business or in the arts in general was looked down upon as much… — Jason Sudeikis Copy Share Image
Like so many Boomers, I saw 'Lawrence of Arabia' in 1962 when it was first released and when we were young teenagers. I'm not… — Mary Doria Russell Copy Share Image
Jews took it very seriously to marry other Jews and repopulate the Jewish bloodline, and my father's generation gets very serious in my household… — Logan Lerman Copy Share Image
Every generation trash-talks younger generations. Baby boomers labeled Generation X a group of tattooed slackers and materialists; Generation Xers have branded millennials as iPhone-addicted… — Neil Blumenthal Copy Share Image
Packed with fascinating personal perspective and testimony, Michael Takiffs A Complicated Man wholly justifies its title. The book is far more than a kaleidoscopic… — Nigel Hamilton Copy Share Image
When the boomers started to have kids reach adolescence, there was suddenly this feeling that they needed to protect their kids from all the… — Dave Barry 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 Boomer lifetimes… — Bruce Cannon Gibney Copy Share Image
Maybe it will be a great thing when the Baby Boomers finally die out. In real life, it's not a matter of the good… — Jack Bowman Copy Share Image
Retirees who are on Medicare will suffer the consequences of 700 billions of Medicare dollars instead being used to cover the skyrocketing cost of… — Suzanne Somers Copy Share Image