They're not stupid, nor ignorant. It is greed. On Boomers and Sooners.

[Billy Burnett]

Greed motivated by a modern day version of the much celebrated Oklahoma Land Rush - this time aimed at the wealth built by the longest running middle class uptick in history.


Racing to stake claims on land wealth stolen from the lifelong owners and inhabitants.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_Run_of_1889

A number of the individuals who participated in the run entered early and hid out until the legal time of entry to lay quick claim to some of the most choice homesteads. These people came to be identified as "sooners". This led to hundreds of legal contests that arose and were decided first at local land offices and eventually by the U.S. Department of the Interior. Arguments included what constituted the "legal time of entry."<3> While some people think that the settlers who entered the territory at the legally appointed time were known as "boomers", the term actually refers to those who campaigned for the opening of the lands, led by David L. Payne.

The University of Oklahoma's fight song, "Boomer Sooner", derives from these two names.<4>

[SharonAnn]

1. Unfortunately, we're also the ones who voted in REagan, GHWB, and W.

And, of course, Clinton.

And we're the ones who elected the GOP Congress that has wreaked such havoc in our lives over the last decade(s).

Our parents built the world's greatest economy. We let it fall apart.

I'm sorry about that, profoundly sorry. But we boomers cannot claim innocence.