The majority of them voted for it last year. Screw ‘em.
When I was young, I use to wander why the old farts didn’t just retire and let us young tigers move up. As I reached middle age, I realized that many of these old farts had much to offer and I should have patients and learn from them, my time would come. As an old fart, I now see the young tigers biting at my tail. LOL
Gen Xer here- (42). I did not vote for the one, I voted for Palin. I have been a stay at home mom for many years and homeschooled my kids (at least until the “liberated women” who wanted to work to keep up with the jones drove up prices so much that to just continue my goodwill/used everything lifestyle AND feed 3 teenage boys I had to find some kind of job)
At least my Gen Y kids (22, 17 and 16) will be able to take care of me and hubby when we retire. Oldest has no debt, getting married in Jan, has excellent work ethic and strong moral character (devout catholic abstaining til marraige and using NFP afterwards), middle going to seminary to be a priest, youngest chomping at the bit to do his thing (computers) after finishing homeschooling.
Hubby and I used to worry about retirement because we gave up pursuing money to instill values. Looks like ours was the better investment in this financial collapse. I feel bad for all those moms who thought that buying their kids ipods, cell phones, and cars and 50,000 16th birthday parties. Now that they are broke, and their kids are spoiled and self centered Baruka Salt types, who is gonna take care of them?
I head toward my golden years with a peace and calm that surpasses all understanding. I heeded the advice in proverbs and trained them up the way they should go and they are truly my most prized posessions and greatest inheritance.
I know a few of these types, children of friends, they are really crimped now that the clubs are folding up all over the place — And their discretionary funds have all dried up.
The Gen-Xers I have run into refuse to learn. I have tried like heck to mentor them, but they fall back to their (generally bad) college instructions.
Those of us in IT learned discipline — in our work, not in a classroom. We understood many production concepts: reliability, extensibility, modularity, insulated, “bullet-proof.”
The Xers came when they had PCs and thus thought if they wrote a little application for Jane and Joan they were a developer. They didn’t (and don’t) understand the idea that things will change and you need to accommodate future changes. They don’t understand the underlying theories that make systems work and how those theories apply.
They think “well, it does what was requested” without understanding the milieu it operates in.
And yes, I understood all of those when I was in my 30s. Because I learned the fundamentals from those who knew them. I knew I did not know.
Gen X doesn’t even have a clue it is clueless.
Gen x..ungrateful little snots.
Your fascist attitude is not going to set well with your bosses.
Those ole farts you want working in Fast Food paid your pathetic college tuitions.
But hey you elected the current nightmare ...NOW LIVE WITH IT.
To the poor Gen Xers:
Just remember: YES,YOU CAN! live under a bridge
HOPE! they live through it when some vibrant person of color plays “panhandler and Grandma Dunham” with their sorry asses at the homeless shelter.
CHANGE! your underwear once a week at the Salvation Army
DIVERSITY is our strength—but you can’t eat it
Many of them (obviously not the FR Gen X ers) had their little wet dream and voted in BO, their hero—Mean ol’ Bush and Cheney are gone. The heroic black savior is kneeling in the Garden of Gethsemene praying for them. How’s that all workin’ for them?
I have a lot of sympathy for Generation X. From the very start, their role was one of gleaners, the Baby Boomers having harvested before them.
They got to be at the tail end of every Boomer fad and fancy, after it was no longer fashionable, and it had been adjusted for and taken into account. Congratulations, kid, you get to wear your older siblings bell bottoms and tie-dyed t-shirts, now that they are laughably tacky.
And it ran a lot deeper than that, in a host of ways. While the Boomers were fooled into thinking they were a gift from the gods unlike anyone who had ever before lived; the Gen X’ers were given cynical and unearned praise which they resented.
“You missed eight out of ten questions on your exam, but I’m giving you an ‘A’ anyway, because I don’t want to hurt your self esteem!” Is there any better way to hurt the self esteem of everyone in class?
While the Boomers were willing to “play the game” of 9 to 5 jobs, most of which was time wasting memo pushing, the Generation X’ers developed an “intelligent work ethic”, that was not appreciated.
“I’ll work, and I’ll do good work with efficiency. But when the work is done, don’t demand that I sit around playing with myself.”
This bizarre idea, that life is more than make-work, was innovated by the Gen-X’ers.
And right when they belatedly entered the work force, after the Boomers had finally been promoted higher than entry level, Jimmy Carter rewarded them with double digit inflation. So guess what, kid? You get only half the wage they got.
Up the career ladder, it was always the case of too many bosses and too few workers. And bless the Boomers, they were always in it for themselves, and to heck with everyone else. Crappy bosses.
The next innovation of the Gen X’ers was to be deprived of the American dream. Work hard, save your money, and there is no way you can ever be as prosperous as your parents, even if you do things just like they did.
Yep, I can see how they could become bitter about that. Now entering middle age, they still have to watch the rear end of the Baby Boomers ahead of them, who always managed to get pretty much what they wanted, and knowing that they, the Gen X’ers, aren’t.
The gleaners.
Hey you Gen Xers: pay your taxes so I can have my retirement, healthcare, housing, education and beach house and remember that the world doesn’t OWE YOU ANYTHING!
Just something to think about.