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In reply to the discussion: 'Checking out at the store, [View all]Raksha
(7,167 posts)131. Well, it definitely wasn't me, even if I am an early-vintage Baby Boomer.
Re "By the way, who was it that put 32 straight years of Republicans in the White House and Congress in the 80s-00s, many of whom handed the USA keys to the environment-destroying wealthy and the ever-wasteful MIC?"
I'm also from a family of blue-collar Jewish supporters of organized labor, an unreconstructed hippie myself and an early opponent of the Vietnm war. I am proud to say that I'm one of the people Nixon and Reagan loved to hate, and I never voted for either one of 'em.
All Baby Boomers were not created equal, so please don't generalize about us.
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+1. The minute the generational warfare crap starts up, I check out. n/t
winter is coming
Feb 2013
#20
I don't think so. I think there's genuine annoyance there and for a good reason.
GiaGiovanni
Feb 2013
#103
Enough non-thinking idiots voted for him so that the theft could commence.
HughBeaumont
Feb 2013
#209
I think the point is that younger folks can learn how to do "green" things from their elders.
backtoblue
Feb 2013
#19
"especially from a smartass who can't make change"... perhaps the negative replies are in response
Luminous Animal
Feb 2013
#33
Yes, it could be worded softer but come on. It's not generational warfare as some are stating.
backtoblue
Feb 2013
#44
Not true personally. Industrially, yes, but they didn't have much choice about that.
GiaGiovanni
Feb 2013
#101
And no one on DU every makes a smart ass comment about the older generation?
GiaGiovanni
Feb 2013
#104
Depends on the age group. It was the late-60s and 70s that really brought "disposables"
GiaGiovanni
Feb 2013
#108
And the returnable glass bottles for milk and soda, the walking everywhere (especially to school and
GiaGiovanni
Feb 2013
#143
Disposable culture really took off circa 1970s-1980s. And the way it happened was that it made
HiPointDem
Feb 2013
#122
they responded to profit potential. there's more profit on disposables. i was there, and no
HiPointDem
Feb 2013
#130
i don't think you were there. even then, the soda market was dominated by a few big players.
HiPointDem
Feb 2013
#137
I know Clearlake, the highlands, the special sulfurous hot springs out in the middle of the lake.
NYC_SKP
Feb 2013
#118
The point: that our grandparents' and great-grandparents' generation actually used less fossil fuel
GiaGiovanni
Feb 2013
#100
i think though that younger people may not realize the degree to which recycle/reuse was built
HiPointDem
Feb 2013
#121
Most of us can't even remember it, although we managed for years without dryers.
Raksha
Feb 2013
#141
You realize the vast majority of the things in this email pre-date the boomers, right?
jeff47
Feb 2013
#64
We have had to bring our own bags to the stores, all of them including Wal-Mart, since January in
Cleita
Feb 2013
#21
One thing about clotheslines VS. clothes dryers. And I hung out clothes as a kid.
raccoon
Feb 2013
#48
I can remember using fountain pens until about my freshman year in high school.
Raksha
Feb 2013
#146
This is both greatly enlightening and highly ironic. It is also appreciated.
Egalitarian Thug
Feb 2013
#68
Surely, you aren't suggesting that disposable containers are more eco-friendly?
NYC_SKP
Feb 2013
#90
Thereby proving again that the only people who forward friggin' chain emails are really old.
Warren DeMontague
Feb 2013
#97
"We didn't feel especially deprived or inconvenienced" = exactly. interesting that disposables etc
HiPointDem
Feb 2013
#132
Well, there are some things a stay-at-home mom can do more easily than one who works.
Raksha
Feb 2013
#148
the economic necessity is kind of related to the women's movement though. double the labor
HiPointDem
Feb 2013
#154
I really hope you are not suggesting that the women's movement is at fault for ...
love_katz
Feb 2013
#161
I'm suggesting that increasing the labor supply = wage reduction. It's not controversial.
HiPointDem
Feb 2013
#164
I get that it's absolutely a fact that the entry of women into the workforce in a major way
HiPointDem
Feb 2013
#174
I agree with all of this except the confrontational tone and a focus on inter-generational butt-hurt
limpyhobbler
Feb 2013
#144
This 'green thing' mass email has been talked about on the Snopes forum since
bike man
Feb 2013
#172
Things seem better back then, the simpler life, for sure. But, disagree that it was all
Laura PourMeADrink
Feb 2013
#185
I would love to go back to the days of paper packaging, glass jars and bottles, returnable
sinkingfeeling
Feb 2013
#187
And we wore an onion on our belt, because that was the fashion at the time...
AngryAmish
Feb 2013
#191
Thank goodness the old days are gone. I'm 65 and I remembered when I worked and
southernyankeebelle
Feb 2013
#194