Posted on 10/23/2004 8:02:06 AM PDT by Chrysler813
I'm tired of Liberals trying to move the dates of Generation X. The only reason they push the ending date back into the 70s is to make Bush looke bad.
The smaller Generation X is the harder it will be for us to support the Baby Boomers. And the harder it is the worse a problem George Bush has created.
I've heard many Generation Xers very upset that they get lumped into the "Boomer" Generation (again to make them look bigger & us smaller)
And on the other end, some people try to push the ending date up. I've heard 1972, 1973, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979 & 1980.
The real dates are 1962 - 1981. Believe me I spent over A YEAR researching this stuff!!!
That makes 70 million Gen Xers & 63 million Baby Boomers (1946 - 1961)
Don't get me wrong, we still got a problem. In 2011 the Baby Boomers will start retiring. When Roosevelt (AKA: America's Socialist King) started Social Security there were 30 working people to 1 retired person. With 70 million to 63 million it's ALMOST 1 to 1
And on top of that we got Generation Y in the workforce (1982 - )
But don't listen to the Liberals: the REAL dates 4 Generation X are 1962 - 1981.
Strass & Howe say 1961 - 1981 not 1965 - 1981.
However if you include 1961 in Generation X, that leaves only a 14 year Baby Boomer Generation (& unless you consider 14 year olds havin kids normal that can't be right
Besides, I believe that in order to conquer a fear or an evil, one must give it a Name. I do not consider the Boomers 'evil' per se, but it has been mentioned more than once, and by our very own FReepers, that MY generation is to bear the cost of what has gone before. If I, as a GenReaganite, am to take up that call, *I* WILL give it a name and OWN it, just so it can be reported to the rest of you that it WAS dealt with.
So, throw whatever labels can be made.
Thank you Chrysler, both for doing the hard work of research and sharing the information :D
Sometimes Generation lines cut people out who "belong" in the 1 before or after.
This is cuase this aint Nazi Germany or a Terrorist Regime. This is America!!! We're free 2 live whatever lives we want!!!
I was born in 1981 (so I'm a Generation Xer) & everything I do or think or say fits the Generation X stereotype. However I had a friend born in 1982 (Generation Y) who was EXACTLY like me. He didn't "fit" in his Generation.
MOST people I've talked 2 born in the early 60s are proud Baby Boomers but THIS IS AMERICA!!! U wanna act like us you're free to do so!!!
Thanks 4 the research
You're right No generation is exactly alike!!! But they have 2 draw the lines somewhere.
I was born in 1981 (the last year of X) & I have ALWAYS had more in common with people born in the 60s then my own decade. Maybe this is why
But not all people fit in "Generations" I usto know a guy born in 1982 (Y) who acted like an Xer. Me on the other hand: I fit the X stereotype perfectly
Generation X started when John F. Kennedy was killed on Nov 22, 1963 and ended when Ronald Reagan was sworn into office on Jan 20, 1981.
That's all there is to it!
Pardon me sport but the Great Society spending spree which we are still paying for was not the work of boomers.
Let's compare the voting stats on non-minority Boomers, GenX and GenY today shall we?
You have focused on the wrong bogeyman.
So you say 1963 - 1981?
Well we're only off by 1 year. I say 1962 - 1981.
But it's a free country, if you wanna believe 63 MORE POWER 2 YA!!!
Well said. I'm 1957 ....too young for Woodstock and Vietnam.
Most non-minorites in my age bracket down South vote at least 2/3rds conservative....in Mississippi, it's around 90%
So painting us with this poster's broad brush is pure bullshite.
He needs to go take a look at how the 18-29 vote. Thank God they don't vote in high numbers or we'd be doomed. Around here, in Nashville, white lefties tend to be affluent GenX and Y DINKS....most of whom are transplants and they cluster in the University areas or leafy old neighborhoods in the inner rings of the city.....or in pioneer gentrified areas.
The big entitlement programs started under FDR and really took off uner JFK/LBJ and so on. That is hardly the Boomers fault.
Youth tend to be more idealistic and naive by nature....they will change. (fighting lads excepted of course)
I, I, I, I, I. The self-absorbed generation.
I belive in me!
Well, I can only speak from experience. I'M a boomer born in 1950. I've worked since I was sixteen, had my investments stolen by Wall Street and my previous CEO (I have since corrected my mistakes) and can only expect to work until I die, given the fact that the various governments steal half of my income. I greatly respect both of my now deceased parents, both of whom lived through the last government/banker instigated depression.
My father was a to me, a loving and gracious man, who landed on Okinawa, came back, worked his A** off and raised a family. My mother sacrificed for the same. God bless them. I am grateful.
The current fallacious rift between the generations was manufactured and is designed to destroy our country and culture.
Very well said. I don't mind the boomer label, but I am getting tired of all the ills in our country getting laid at our feet.
My husband was born in '50 and started working at 12 driving tractors and baling hay for his neighbors, and he's worked every day since. I was born in '56, had my first real job at 15 (as opposed to babysitting) and I've worked ever since. All the people I know that are our age have done the same.
It's about time people realize that while a significant portion of our generation may have been out protesting our country and doing their best to liberalize and socialize it, there was an even larger portion working their butts off, trying to take care of themselves and their families without government help.
How about giving us some credit for trying to hold back the liberals? Without us, there may not have been a Reagan for the Generations X and Y to look up to.
Sorry for the rant.
This is the best news I have heard all day. Born in 1962, it warms my heart to know I am NOT a baby boomer. I never felt like one anyway. I'll stick with the Xers thank-you very much!
Generation X and proud of it!
BTTT
The 60s Boomer Left was never a majority.
The Gen X Left is ....at least accroding to polls.
Thank you!!
I'm not as "old" an X er as I thought I was. I kept reading that it started in 66.
People on this thread are using these terms like there is something scientific to them. In reality, there is no magic dividing lines- the closest thing to that would be something like the end of the War.
Do you have a link to back that up or are you just making stuff up?
Sorry but the Gen-X is the most conservative Generation in a long time (Especially Early Gen-Xers 1965-1975).
Baby Boomers were way more liberal at our age then we are. See Rush Limbaugh..
And another
NEWSWEEK POLL: Bush, Kerry in Dead Heat Among Young (Under 30) Voters
So yes the baby boomers were way more Liberal than us
And that's just under 30
For the 30-40 age braket I don't have a national poll but see
Polls show youth leaning to Bush
Look at the breakdown of support for the candidates in Florida based on age: Bush leads Kerry in the 18-34 age group 50 percent to 43 percent; 60 percent to 32 percent in the 35-44 age group; and 47 percent to 41 percent in the 45-54 age group. Kerry leads Bush 47 percent to 41 percent in the 55-64 age group, and 51 percent to 40 percent in the 65-plus age group. The numbers equal less than 100 percent because participants either picked another candidate or said they didn't know who they supported.
The More Gen-X the bigger Bush's lead
AND Please let's not forget if it weren't for the Early Gen-Xers Al Gore would be President
http://www.census.gov/prod/2003pubs/02statab/election.pdf
Age | Bush | Gore & Nader |
18 - 25 | 37 | 63 |
26 - 41 | 54 | 46 |
42-57 | 47 | 59 |
58-73 | 52 | 48 |
74-89 | 36 | 64 |
90+ | 100 | 0 |
I was born in '63. Technically we are boomers, the cut of is '64, but like you I seem to have more in common with x-ers.
Gore & Nader - 53 Bush - 47
So it should be
Age | Bush | Gore & Nader |
18 - 25 | 37 | 63 |
26 - 41 | 54 | 46 |
42-57 | 47 | 53 |
58-73 | 52 | 48 |
74-89 | 36 | 64 |
90+ | 100 | 0 |
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