Posted on 08/13/2013 7:04:15 AM PDT by Publius804
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My generation, called “baby boomers”.
Notice how Gen X is completely ignored in this article...
Minimal Parental involvement, and extended family too far away to have a positive influence.
Not surprised at all by all of this. The boomer generation is now worrying about their own aging and and their kid’s future. Thank-you Obama!
Their forthcoming Chinese overlords will be much tougher on them than we Baby-boomers ever were.
Got to remember that Gen X is NOW doing the parrenting of their own kids.
Will never happen.
There is a reason why. China’s economy is simply a “house of cards” which is based on a LOT of corruption at their end.
The Boomers were always good with me me me...
You got it right. As one at the tailend of that generation,(1959), I have at times been embaressed by the antics of my generation.
If anything the ChiComs have a vested interest in keeping our printing presses running and continuing to pretend to sell us stuff in order to hold off the pitchfork mobs and their date with a lamppost.
A few more decades of bone-crushing deficits have done their work on the economy. This isn’t the economy I saw when I was starting out, and I could walk down any street and get a job. I was very casual about changing jobs because there was always another one and better.
It isn’t just the kids starting out that can’t find work, anyone hitting the streets right now is going to have a tough time.
The older ones out of work have the memory of how it once was and could be. The young ones don’t have that memory and will tend to accept things as just how it is. So the psychology is different.
I never brag about my generation. I think they are a historical embarrassment. My peers are the ones who mocked what our grandparents built and threw away what our parents left us.
Generations produce consequences.
A lot of our problems today (generationaly speaking) are self inflicted.
Yep they know they, the ChiComs are in growing trouble.
“...and extended family too far away to have a positive influence.”
I tend to agree with that. Lot’s of snowbirds hardly ever see their grandchildren.
True.
....Except when they fly up north to get away from the heat of the south.
MTV, public schools, and Howard Stern.
Many Americans stopped going to church. (mentioned in the article)
By going to church I don’t mean just on Easter and Christmas. I mean every week, and giving of time and treasure.
What do parents tell their children is the hallmark of a successful life? Why are we here? Is it to live to have a nice lakeside retirement home? Is it to send our children to daycare to be raised by strangers? Is it to raise kids to get into an ivy league college? To be the next Steve Jobs, Warren Buffett? Is it to spend a life of leisure courtesy of the American taxpayer?
Life has one singular purpose, and if you follow it, you will find happiness forever. Give Glory to God in all that you do and you will want for nothing. We have forgotten. We have kicked Him out of our schools, out of our courts, out of our music, out of our homes and out of our hearts. Only when we allow ourselves to remember the reason for our being and teach our children where we come from will our historical course be righted.
Pray for our nation. Only God can save us.
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