Posted on 08/26/2006 6:16:15 AM PDT by billorites
No, I only provide for your prescription drugs, healthcare, retirement and the cost of gasoline provided by gen-x (and y) troops in the Gulf.
At least you could thank us: Besides all the financial benefits we provide you, we get your latte's, make your copies and will change your diaper when you grow old. Which you are--growing old....
The 'whiney kids' you are crapping on are almost 40 now.
The rates weren't as high as they are now--'cuz the boomers had less kids.
What are those shortcomings? Hmmmmm?
Raised largely by single parents: we are today's innovators, the soldiers, we are having more kids than the boomers and aborting less, we are saving more, we are paying more taxes, we are bearing the burden that you ignored. The combat leaders in the war on terror are gen-Xers.
We are fighting the boomer wars, while being protested and spat on by old boomers!
Blaming me and my generation isn't going to resolve your generations shortcomings.
Well, I am 50 and I think there is a good chance they will be changing your diaper before mine. I work for myself, I pay my own health insurance and I fund my own retirement plan. You are getting old just as fast as I am and if at age 40 you make a living serving latte, then the miserable future that lies ahead of you is nobodys fault but your own. BTW, thanks for the coffee.
I live off of the money I make working for myself. I am not of retirement age, I do not collect any kind of retirement money and I pay for my own private health insurance. If you drive a car on the public roads, you receive exactly the same government benefits I do. I am certain that you as a patent lawyer make far more money than I do. And yet you are compelled to blame me for all of your problems, real or perceived. That, IMHO, is your shortcoming.
btt
I have NO dog in this fight. However, I recall a book called the "Fourth Generation" or something. Talks about how there are 4 generations of "types" of people. Due to learning from their parents' mistakes, rebellion, etc. the generations keep revolving.
It said how the generation "xers" are the next "greatest generation" - the "fourth generation" fought WWII, and the "xers" are similar to that group. Very driven, hard working, values oriented, etc. If the country is in good times these values will go to making money, etc. But, if like WWII something prompts their collective will - they will be the "greatest generation" similiar to that of WWII.
The book was written before 9/11. I think the courage and honor that many of our young folks have shown in Afghanistan and Iraq in serving their country certainly deserves MY respect as a baby-boomer.
Ya right...what a crazy thing to say. X'ers are about to begin the process of fixing up the mess that Baby Boomers have made of our beautiful country.
Truth be told, most Boomers are workaholics
You could be right about that. I am an Xer, but I can see boomers who do work well over the typical 8 hours a day. In the previous generation, they may have worked harder during those 8 hours physically, but today's workers are just working around the clock.
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Seems like you and your dad made bad choices. And, you want to blame me for it. What else coiuld I call you but skippy?
btw...if no fault divorce laws of the sixties screwed your life up blame the politicians who made them...that would be the 'greatest generation' guys.
Also, my oldest is building his fortune in real estate and (this bit of advice is free) you don't do that by flipping....but you wouldn't know that.
Gen-X is subsidizing his retirement....
That remains to be seen. Personally, I think that there is a huge pension bust coming as companies (initially) and then the local, state, and (finally) Federal governments decide they can't pay promised benefits. While people may still technically get pensions, it will be pennies on the dollar and almost no additional benefits.
I watched my Father's company incrementally strip him of his retirement benefits. The company also went through the step of forming a sham "association of retired employees" who trumpeted each reduction in benefits as a victory for the retirees. What a crock.
How we will pay for SS and Medicare is still an open question. It will be very hard to pull the same thing here--as the constituency is just too large. The Elites may still think that bringing in loads of young immigrants will solve it. And it may--at the Federal level. The problem is that the cost of social services at the local and state level will offset this contribution. It is just shifting the cost burden, but will allows the politicians in Washington to claim that these programs are being preserved. However, the cost will be the destruction of our culture and country.
Interesting. That means the Xers are producing the next generation of us brats, even as we speak.
No, but you can thanks the Xers that are manning the line right now, in Afghanistan, and who manned the line in Gulf War I.
Maybe you aren't a manager because you are a whiny baby?
WAH WAH! Maybe upper management is sick of having to change your diapers and feed you your bottle.
Get off your lazy butt and work for something instead of whining about someone more qualified than you keeping their job.
If you weren't such a whiny mental age of a 3 year old you'd know the truth is most companies are firing the older people because they make more money.
And for the record I am 38. I worked hard and ironically just Friday was promoted to manager to take over for the 62 year old retiring on October 1st.
Lots of our generation the most spoiled rotten gimme gimme gimme generation in history went to college and partied and got their degrees in Advanced History of the Chicago Cubs or something useless like that. I did myself and then went back to school and became a paralegal.
Stop whining like a baby and go back to school if you aren't happy with what you are doing. I wasn't happy with my career so I went back to school. But then I'm an adult and a good person not a whiny baby.
I'm truly worried if we ever have a draft. Can you imagine Generation X or Y fighting a war "You mean mommy can't drive me? I might have to wake up before 8 am?"
Note please I am not putting down the armed forces right now the volunteer forces. They are the greatest. But if we had to draft we're in trouble.
Generation X and Y and the baby boomers would never win another WW2.
I was raised by parents born pre WW2.
That would require hard work and not whining which most of my generation has no clue about.
Generation X has yet to make anything better.
If I was your mother I would have left a whiny brat who still hasn't stopped whining now too.
Sorry that's too harsh but whining like a 3 year old isn't going to get you anywhere.
I don't know what "mod cons" means but as for the rest- Bull.
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