Posted on 07/02/2014 8:13:54 AM PDT by C19fan
1. We’re poorer than our parents were at our age
Few people have been through as many economic ups and downs as the members of Generation X. Born between 1965 and 1980, any entered the workforce during the boom years of the Clinton administration—but then along came 9/11 and, a few years later, the Great Recession.
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Oprah generation? I despise her and she is a boomer.
You are joking, right?
is a propaganda term invented by the ill-neducated, unintelligent, loathsome leftist Tom Brokaw. It is a stupid term. Greatest??? Really? Greater than the men who fought the Revolution and then forged the several states into this Great Republic? Greater than the men who fought the War Between the States? Seriously? Greater than their own fathers, who fought the Great War?
Get a grip, Tommy. The term "Greatest Generation" is pure, unadulterated nonsense. Drivel. Foolishness.
In fact, this whole business of trying to force-fit millions of people into "generations" that all supposedly think and act alike is foolishness. It is leftist group-think at its absolute worst.
“between 1970 and 2010 the bottom half the country was stagnant in earnings while the top half saw large gains.”
Couldn’t be that somebody changed the nature of “sound as a dollar” back then, could it???
And yet the Greatest Generation raised the WORST generation (Boomers). My granddad, WWII vet had a very tough life (God Bless Him). Came back from 4 years of Total War with the Japs only to get married, have three kids, and self medicate with booze for the next 40 years. Was never there for his children as they practically raised themselves.
The “Greatest Generation” gave America away. They had the lottery ticket in their hand, ready to be stamped for approval saying “VENI, VEDI, VICI” and they flushed it away by not raising their Children with good Christian Morals, ethics and principles.
E’f the “greatest generation”!
Hi, NorthMountain:
No love lost here either for Brokaw. But I believe that the expression is meant to refer to living generations.
Again, I want to stress that the dire challenges posed to that generation by the war in Europe and then the attack on Pearl Harbor were not their doing - they were foisted upon them - but that they mastered them admirably.
Subsequent generations were never given the opportunity to "show their stuff," to "shine," to display their merits under duress. "Some are born to greatness, others have it thrust upon them." The latter applies to the "Greatest Generation." Subsequent generations lacked that stellar opportunity.
Regards,
You're obviously too young to remember that little spate of unpleasantness that occurred in Vietnam from around 1965 to 1972. Most of us who served didn't do so for selfish reasons. It was pretty much all sacrifice.
The “Greatest Generation” gave America away......2014, Huh? Troll, I am a Baby boomer and have done damn good for myself and family. The Democrats, unions, the media and the CPUSA, as well as the ACLU, education were the ones to give America away, by design. Spout your crap somewhere else. Don’t disparage my parents; attack the Communists , who for sixty plus years have undermined this country. This was Woodrow Wilson’s dream. European Socialism. Next? Obama’s dream of Sharia. Go F yourself, troll.
I'll expand my comments. In the larger historical sense, covering the whole history of the American Republic, the execrable Tom Brokaw's term "Greatest Generation" is simply wrong. In the narrower historical sense you suggest, it is both dubious (the "Great War" generation was still living) and fatuous. If the other living "generations" did not have the opportunity to demonstrate their greatness, then their greatness cannot be evaluated and there is no point of comparison.
Finally, I reiterate my final comment from the previous post:
In fact, this whole business of trying to force-fit millions of people into "generations" that all supposedly think and act alike is foolishness. It is leftist group-think at its absolute worst.
Full disclosure: Was indeed too young - by a hair - to be called up.
Again, I definitely do NOT want to denigrate post-WWII generations for their lack of opportunity to display valor.
With regards to the Vietnam War: Would you really characterize that as an opportunity to display valor? Did the members of that generation (i.e. those who were of age to fight in Vietnam) almost unanimously join forces to heroically destroy an obvious and unequivocable enemy of almost equal strength, which had declared war on Western Civilization? I think not. On the contrary: The soldiers in Vietnam were not allowed to win.
Regards,
I have always found this type of thing objectionable.
It always seems like a liberal thing, to put people in buckets to pit them against each other. I reject it out of hand. If you want to get ahead, and are driven to get ahead, you will get ahead.
There is something whiny about this article that turns me off.
I think if people are worrying about this, they are wasting their time worrying about the wrong thing.
As for the economies of the generations, my feeling is that the voters of the Depression Era really got what they deserved. They elected a blatant communist to the presidency FOUR times. Meanwhile, GenX should never expect to receive ITS Social Security because that program was always meant to be generational swindle.
I’ve stopped calling them Baby Boomers.
They are the Locust Generation. They came upon a nation in bloom and consumed everything they lighted upon. They left nothing in their wake.
The Greatest Generation saved the world and then put men on the Moon.
The GenX’ers have also been called the Sandwich Generation - caught between cataclysmic debt at every level and the expectations of children who, in America, expect to live better than their parents did.
Boy is that one true. Ten years ago my company was having seminars on how to attract enough people to replace the Boomers. Now with the recession decreasing business AND delaying retirements it doesn't look like my generation will get a shot at moving up the ladder any time soon.
On a personal level it is worse too. People had nothing during the depression but Gen Xers are often deep in the hole. The article says, "Generation X’s assets were only double their debts, according to the Pew Charitable Trusts" but I suspect that is WAY off from the reality. I would be surprised if the generation as a whole is even at the break even point. As the article also mentions the Xers were hit HARD by the housing collapse. Many also fell for the trap of borrowing against their home's principle while times were good.
GMTA!
My sentiments exactly.
You have twice as much glass as you need.
The boomers did produce 9.4 million veterans and volunteered for their wars from Vietnam through Afghanistan, they were not draftees like WWII.
I always said, first they said that the problem was that children were having children. These "generation x'ers" are the children that those children had.
-PJ
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