User talk:Betsybugs

Cute edit on the Me Generation Page, Betsy. Next time, please read the source articles, and try to provide sources of your own if you want to contradict it. If you had read the article instead of taking umbrage at it, you would have seen that Tom Wolfe coined the Phrase in the 1970s to refer specifically to the Baby Boomer Generation. As seen here:

I know that the popular belief is that all the great social change of the 1950s, 60s and 70s was the result of something Boomers did, but even the oldest Boomers were just graduating High School by 1964, so how did they make the world better? Voting for John F. Kennedy? The Civil Rights Act of 1965? Medicare? LBJ's Great Society? The Space Race? And how did someone born in 1955, or even 1964 affect anything in the 1970s? All the Social changes that occurred in your youth were the result of the generation(s) before you. What we can thank Boomers for: Embracing Yuppy-ism, consumerism, tax cuts for the rich, and Reaganomics. Getting the draft abolished so that future generations had no skin in the game to get out and vote? Demolishing unions? Standing in the way of universal health care for thirty years (while simultaneously paying significantly more for Reagan's "Emergency Room Social Medicine")? The move away from Science and other things that challenge the world view of our childhood? The Advertising of prescription medicines on Television with "ask your doctor -who is surely far more educated than you are on the subject- if X-drug is right for you" Thanks, you've made the world something. Not sure it's better, but it's something. DiesPhantom (talk) 19:58, 25 January 2015 (UTC)