I’m with you as a (41 yo) genXer. I sure the h$ll don’t recognize my fellow genXer based on the comments on FR, and I know of no one in my age group that admits to voting for bami. The vast majority of us recognize that we are paying for the government programs supporting many other individuals with the knowledge we won’t see a return on our dollar. The older genXer could care less about being cool and outgrew that about a decade and a half ago. We didn’t grow up with computers (I think Atari was as advanced as it got) and many of us didn’t see computers until a few years into our professional careers. And many of us look 10-15 years younger so I could see how many would think based solely on judging from appearances from afar, how you could mistaken us for GenYers. But if you’ve ever been in management, you would definitely be able to immediately tell a Xer from a Yer. We are the ones (generally) who act the least entitled, expect not a whole lot from “the man” or from the government and want to be left alone so we can do our jobs properly. So I’ll go wipe my snot nose now but will enjoy the fact that it will be many years before I’m relying on someone else to wipe my a$$ and when it’s my turn to be wiped, I’ll have saved enough of my own money to hire someone to wipe it because I understand that the CMS and SS ponzi schemes will have crashed and burned.
AMEN!!! (from another 41 yo). I couldn’t have said it better myself.
Amen.
Well said.
41 years old here...and very conservative...and very much pissed at what the boomer generation has left for us. Thanks guys...now go forth and hope we can pick you a good home.