Posted on 09/07/2004 8:49:33 AM PDT by qam1
The key point to be remembered here is that most of the boomers who would have raised their kids poorly chose to murder them in the womb instead
You ain't kidding - see post #89. LOL...
I'm glad you found Jesus, I never lost Him.
23 yr old mom to a 3 month old, married to a 39 yr old. We are the beginning and end of Gen X, and this article describes us well.
Yeah, I guess I usually say that in liberal circles. It becomes a habit to say, "Not that there's anything wrong with that" to avoid sounding like I am judging them.
There is a term for people like me and like cupcake's husband who were born very late Boomer.
I was born in late 1960.
Cupcake's hubby was born in 61.
Those of us in this weird "cusp" era are sometimes called "Generation Jones".
We were too little to do the whole Woodstock thing, we were too young to go to Vietnam, we missed the first rush of Yuppie-dom and the "Me" Generation, and we became sexually active JUST in time for AIDS to change everything.
For myself, I have a lot more in common with Gen X than I do with Boomers.
Kool Aid is the right description. It strikes me as the herd mentality at work. A herd of sheep waiting for the next fleecing. The sad thing is that this mindset produced a lot of the ills of the 60s that they accuse the whole so-called boomer generation of having- "I'm special" "Look at me" The whole mindset that says human nature changed in 1965, or 1964 or whenever they now say that the generations changed. In a world where we have seen in the last few days another example of pure evil, why would anyone wish to needlessly divide us over superficial and invalid distinctions?
"Those of us in this weird "cusp" era are sometimes called "Generation Jones". "
Also called "tweeners".
"Tweener, tweener, tweener!"
LOL!
( Seriously, thanks for the palaver!)
Ha ha ha. That's a funny one.
Come and take it.
Consider me in that group with you...I was born in '60 (my b'day is this month).
Even my husband, born in '55, has more in common with GenX than the boomers........
Why are some and some not - who knows.
Well that's the problem with an entitlements like social security. If enough people collect something they'll keep voting for more. Babyboomers will be a giant voting block. They won't just let the Gov't stop paying them. But hey don't blame us, we expanded the system our greatest generation parents left us. Except we used hearts instead of our heads. And now, with drug care, our heads will be drugged out all the time. That's OK, you Gen Xers can vote in free cosmetic surgery to repair the damage done by tattoos and flabby stretched out belly-button rings. You'll have to make your kids pay for it, of course. Except by that time there won't be any paychecks left... just a guaranteed job with the Gov't... ah sweet socialistic utopia.
We did the same and I'm 54. One of the things we were always grateful for is that we had the sense never to value money and material as much as our three daughters. They came first whether we drove used cars or went camping for vacations.
Not quite baby boomer, not quite generation xer.
Personally, I think all other generations suck, are lazy, they kill their babies etc. That being said, the WWII gernation used up all the resources, consumed everything in sight, had all the best jobs, they actually had a thing called job security etc, Mom never had to work, Dad was able to pay for everything on one pay check, and they are now all retired with all the money. LOL!
The baby boomers ate the big one. Government turned on them, the school teachers used dope and brainwashed all the kids into leftist, both Mom and Dad had to worked 40 hrs a week just to pay the mortage and bills, most of the women cheated on their husbands since they had to go to work while the married guys at work started hitting on the married women, and it turned into total chaos, and continues today. Most Gen-xers I know sit in the corner and drool, thinking they are great. They wouldn't know a hardship from a ham sandwich.
So screw um all. I am a proud memeber of the boomeration!
Well, that about sums it up.
"It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world." -- Thomas Jefferson
Baby Boomers may be a giant voting block, but the "Gen X" families shall not be reduced from penury to slavery, by political means or otherwise.
The FICA withholding scheme is the only assurance of Social Security funding for the Baby Boomers. Independent contractors, the self-employed, many professionals, and cash operators do not participate in FICA withholding. Many Gen X workers don't participate in FICA -- certainly not enough to fund the Baby Boomers at current levels of expectation.
Bingo. My parents are still screwups, but my siblings and I got to observe first-hand to the extent they made a parade of poor life choices and the consequences of said choices. It wasn't that I was raised so well, but that I made a clear association between how my parents lived their lives and the lives they actually lived as a result. Apparently many people of my parents' generation still haven't figured out this correlation, but I sure as hell did and managed to avoid repeating their stupidity.
As a result though, I don't really communicate much with my parents any more, nor do any of my siblings. My parents live on a completely different planet and still don't see any kind of personal responsibility in how their lives turned out and are at least somewhat ashamed of how we turned out insofar as all their children vocally rejected the beliefs pounded into us as idiotic and foolish. I don't have much to say to a person who steadfastly refuses to examine axioms that are grossly and obviously defective, and that they think I owe them my lifes work because they "raised" me pretty much sets me off.
I see. By who's estimation? Yours? The media's? Phooey - you sound just like a koolaid drinker, lapping up the squeezings of the New York Times. Cogadh, were you among the Protest Warriors in New York last week? If not, then by your own definition, YOU are being defined by the finger-tossing, epithet screeching, unwashed harpies that marched on that Sunday. Like being brushed broadly?
Why do you persist on disrespecting those who made a life for you? Why are you so angry?
The generation before them is the one that decided to raid the treasury and stick their children with the bill. Maybe that had something to do with it.
good for you and her! But most of all, good for the baby. This article pleases me,,it seems that the kids turned out well. My kids are gen xers and this describes them. Two highly educated women are at home with babies, tightening the belts, hubbies are more involved with kids,,,,a good thing as Auntie Martha would say.
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