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**Right now the armed forces are run by Boomers.**

So is everything else. In my opinion there is right thinking boomers (Vietnam Vets, traditional values, etc) and wrong thinking (The old Hippies, socialists, etc). Perhaps the military got most of the right thinking ones because when I look at the rest of America the Boomers are running this country into the ground.

First of all I really don’t think you even know what a Generation X’er is. I think you assume everyone who is younger than you is Generation X. You haven’t had a Gen X’er right out of college since maybe the early 1990’s. If you complain that people in your field with between ten and twenty years experience can’t do the job then I have to wonder why they are still working.

Some background on your typical Gen X’ers. Most of us remember Jimmy Carter growing up. A lot of us our first vote was for Ronald Reagan. Most of us can remember what we was doing when Reagan was shot or when the Berlin Wall came down. At the time we was more politically conservative than previous generations. I still believe we are, I can think of several Boomers who voted for Obama and many 18 year old kids who thought Obama was a rock star. But I can’t think of any of my friends my age who voted for Obama.

We are not as well educated as you guys. Remember “New Math”? Our Boomer teachers tried out all sorts of experimental teaching techniques they learned in college and most was failures. But compared with what is being thought in the schools currently I hope home schooling saves us. In college we was told of the good old days by Boomer professors of campus protests against the war and brick throwing. I had one professor complain that this current generation (mine) just wasn’t as activist as his (Boomer). Hell most of us just wanted to earn a living to repay college loans rather than change the World.

Most Boomers came from stable two parent families, Most Gen X’ers are children of divorce so cut us some slack that we are more screwed up because of it.

I remember when music wasn’t rap and reality shows didn’t dominate the channels. Can’t blame that on us, I remember Time Warner and the others pretty much forced good music and entertainment off the air and they was ran by Boomers and older. The culture turned coarser around 1992 when the Baby Boomers got into leadership (Bill Clinton).

About all the politicians in Washington is boomers and so is a high percent of the media. Of course there is plenty of idiots of my generation as well who shares the blame.

So I am truly sorry my generation don’t measure up to your high standards. Baby Boomer Barack Obama scares the hell out of me. If you caught Glen Beck today you know why.

Now I might tease you for being an old timer in I.T. (which I am not involved in)but I still respect your work. I am also going to say that I didn’t have anything against young people until a year or two ago when I started to notice the next generation coming into my Guard unit. Too many of them had spent all their lives on medication of some sort (Ritalin, etc) and just seem brainwashed yet narcissistic. There is still good ones who get the military but be afraid because these are your Obama robots.

You have to understand something, Swiss. freedumb2003 seems to not understand that we Gen-Xers are the children of the Boomers. All the Boomers failings are reflected in us, because they raised us. They didn't want to be parents, they wanted to be friends. They wanted someone that they could share their pot and their socialist radicalism with, not a child to shape and mold into a good American. But freedumb2003 wants to blame us for it all. Obama? Elected by us? We are the Baby Busters. There aren't enough of us to sway a national election. Too many Boomers were too self absorbed to embrace parenthood, or to pass on what their parents taught them. While a a possible majority of Xers voted for Obama (not sure about that. There is a big chunk of Gen-Y contained in the age grouping that we are bracketed with)there are many more Boomers numerically that voted for Zero than us. (He doesn't seem to want to admit that Bill Clinton and Barrack Obama are Boomers).

But since he was on the receiving end of the knowledge passed on by his betters, he thinks himself superior. But he wasn't all that willing to do the same to the succeeding generation, because he viewed himself superior to them. We were supposed to know everything from the womb. And if we didn't? Well, we aren't worth his time.

So we Gen-Xers have looked beyond the Booomers, realizing the self absorbed tools that they are. We looked to our grand-parents. We have more in common with them than our parents. They lived through real adversity. They didn't live through the best of times, like they made sure their children did. Yet they didn't view themselves as the best generation like the Boomers do. They considered themselves lucky.

So yeah, we Gen-Xers are a tad bitter. Our parents think we are failures at everything, no matter what we do. But our parents are too self-centered to realize that we are their progeny; that we are a reflection of them. And somehow their failings are our fault.