My 15-year-old son came home from school the other day and said “thanks, mom, your generation has screwed up this country so bad that mine is going to have to spend decades fixing it.” I had to tell him he was right. I also told him it was no accident that our two candidates for president are a pre-Boomer and a post-Boomer. We had Boomer presidents for the last 16 years and they messed up everything that Reagan and Bush had fixed. My son said he wants McCain to be elected because the generation before the Baby Boom knew what it was doing. I guess his school has done a lousy job of indoctrinating him!
.....“thanks, mom, your generation has screwed up this country so bad that mine is going to have to spend decades fixing it.”.....
Is your son named Calvin? Did he have a pal, a tiger called Hobbes?
His statement is pure Calvin and Hobbes.
Alas, they are gone from the comics, but perhaps they are alive and well
The generation before that gave us Lyndon Johnson ,Water Cronkite,Mao,Stalin Hitler to name a few.
I was born in 1945 (good vintage year). I do not think that it was our generation that did the economy in. Somewhere along the way, we raised a bunch of greedy folks and those who take no responsibility for trashing institutions.
the democrats come to my mind!
McCain is indeed a pre-boomer but Obama is not a post-boomer. Obama was born in 1961, the baby boom is defined as the years from 1946 to 1964. Obama is in fact a baby boomer.
“I also told him it was no accident that our two candidates for president are a pre-Boomer and a post-Boomer. “
Obama and Governor Palin are both baby boomers. Make sure that you let your son know that.