Posted on 09/02/2013 9:33:16 PM PDT by ReformationFan
They were the royal children; the sons and daughters of the Baby Boomers who adored and spoiled them and promised them that life would be wonderful. They were designer babies with clothing and shoes that sported logos just like their parents.
Their parents were on waiting lists to get them into the right pre-school, they were given lavish birthday parties and extravagant gifts. They were trained and brainwashed and made to believe that getting into the right college meant success or failure.
They were given trophies and awards for playing sports whether they were accomplished or not. It didnt matter if they were good, as long as they tried.
These 18-29 year olds from all across the economic spectrum were made to believe that the world owed them something just because they were special. It didnt matter if they really were special or outstanding, it was all about self-esteem.
Many of these kids dont know what real work is. Their work ethic is entirely different from the one that previous generations had. Just because your mom and dad said you were talented, special and oh so smart doesnt translate to what an employer might think.
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True, being born in your case, in 1956, I think you missed most of the “Boomer Experience” as generally seen by society. By the mid 1970’s, the country was tired from all the radicalism and change of the 1960’s and wanted to settle down into the disco 1970’s.
Some info on that picture?
I think you kind of missed the part that the government played.
Ours was the creative generation. We're not boomers, or we're the very oldest of boomers, so most of us have parents who didn't serve in WWII. We had the advantages of a growing economy and the memory that in the US there was the strongest connection possible between hard work and success. There weren't enough of us, so we had great career choices.
Then crazy stuff happened. VietNam, excessive government interference, "rights" and handouts instead of opportunities. The people got addicted, the rich began to care only about getting richer, the government wanted to control and manipulate everyone and everything.
And now we have idiot politicians talking about a war to save the presidency from embarrasment. We used to (maybe until VietNam) at least accept that we went to war because it was the moral thing to do.
I'm feeling a sadness today. Nobody in government is even pretending that there's anything about this warmongering that supports anything close to our traditional values. Particularly pathetic is that the politicians of our generation, the ones that should know better, are the worst of the sellouts.
Agreed.
(But it’s particularly silly of young conservatives to blame their elders for our situation when it is their age cohort who voted for Obama.)
+1
When you think of immigration and the 1965 Immigration Act, think of John F. Kennedy.
From unionizing government, to Vietnam, to creating homelessness (Community Mental Health Act) to the 1965 Immigration Act, JFK was the end of us.
However, if there is one man who can take the most credit for the 1965 act, it is John F. Kennedy. Kennedy seems to have inherited the resentment his father Joseph felt as an outsider in Bostons WASP aristocracy. He voted against the McCarran-Walter Act of 1952, and supported various refugee acts throughout the 1950s. In 1958 he wrote a book, A Nation of Immigrants, which attacked the quota system as illogical and without purpose, and the book served as Kennedys blueprint for immigration reform after he became president in 1960. In the summer of 1963, Kennedy sent Congress a proposal calling for the elimination of the national origins quota system. He wanted immigrants admitted on the basis of family reunification and needed skills, without regard to national origin. After his assassination in November, his brother Robert took up the cause of immigration reform, calling it JFKs legacy. In the forward to a revised edition of A Nation of Immigrants, issued in 1964 to gain support for the new law, he wrote, I know of no cause which President Kennedy championed more warmly than the improvement of our immigration policies. Sold as a memorial to JFK, there was very little opposition to what became known as the Immigration Act of 1965.
“”Elements of the division’s 1st Airborne Battle Group, 327th Infantry were ordered to Little Rock by President Eisenhower to allow the students to enter the formerly segregated school during the crisis. The division was under the command of Major General Edwin Walker, who was committed to protecting the black students. The troops were deployed from September until Thanksgiving 1957, when Task Force 153rd Infantry, (federalized Arkansas Army National Guard) which had also been on duty at the school since 24 September, assumed the responsibility.””
Well, no.
You can ridicule the science of it. You clearly do not want to take it seriously because it doesn’t apply to YOU.
Fair enough. But just because you don’t believe it doesnt make it not real.
What science, Einstein? A linguistic euphemism is invented by some clever joker and you c all it ‘science’? Back to school.
Do some reading, fool.
Studies on Generational Social Norms has been going on for decades.
My God, stop being so sensitive. Just because you are ignorant, don’t feel bad. Most people are.
This stuff is used in marketing—and has been since the beginning of time. How do you think that advertisers know how to “push the buttons” of the masses? You think they just keep guessing until they get it right?
Science is not always in a chemistry lab. Psychologists actually do real science.
I don’t see JFK as being cut down in his prime, I see him as 3/4s through his administration and a proven disaster.
JFK's tenure was a disaster. He was Jimmah Cahtah without the moral snottyness but instead with the morals of an alley cat and the strategic vision of a caterpillar. It is hard to think of a decision he made which ended well. We barely escaped nuclear war with the Soviet Union.
But then, I can't think of a single Democrat President in the past 100 years who was worth a pitcher of warm spit, including the vaunted Harry Truman. He was the one who first decided the best way to fight an American war was to a draw. We are still living with that awful template.
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