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Man, I am so out of it.
Geez, a 20 year span. I suppose it is possible that a Gen Xer born in 1961 could have had a kid born by 1981. Both the parent and child would be Gen Xers. Wouldn't that be hilarious?
Get those boomers out of here!
Yeah, I guess I'm barely an X'er as well. Although I never thought I had much in common with younger X'ers.
I think they need to create a new category for kids born in the '60s. Do we really have that much in common with true post-WW2 kids and with children born in the later '70s? My mom never worked and none of my peers were latchkey kids.
I never thought I had so much in common with 23 year-olds.
Although, apparently maybe more than I thought, in terms of moral values.
Thank God - we've finally taken over. Look out Baby Boomers, we're going to throw your welfare state on the trash heap of history LOL!
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A feature of Gen X is that they were never sheltered, never innocent. They always knew that there were molesters and hoodlums and drug dealers who are out to get you. They never thought the world was a safe place. That is why they appreciated the solid responsibility of their grandparents a lot more than their flighty parents did.
Baby Boomers grew up in a world so safe, so secure, so comfortable that they thought scarcity-based values like effort, self-discipline, and competitiveness were as archaic as courtly romance at an orgy. The point of the counterculture was believing that struggle has been removed from the human condition. We can all smoke dope and play frisbee and be friends because there is plenty for everyone.
I think I recall that you are also a Gen Xer. If so, thought you'd like to see this.
Proud member here!!!
GenXer born in '76 here. Let's kick some boomer ass!
Boomers have changed, we're old and it shows in this "data".
The X'ers' day hasn't come yet, maybe in another twenty years.
BTW:
"You kids get off my lawn!"
"You call that music?"
I'm 66 and my wife will be 65 next year.
We have felt like the sandwich generation for decades. We were caught between the old time liberals (FDRers) and the Boomer liberals. Both groups want government to provide for them and to take from us for them.
Our best friends are in the same narrow band age wise. We have had a hard time relating or working with most boomers.
We have a lot of younger X generation friends, who often prefer to be around us rather than their boomer parents. A lot of them call us Mom or Dad or Pops. Some of their parents are on 3rd to 5th marriages or dozens of live together relationships.
We have seen a bumper group of X generation new parents return to active church attendance and being highly involved in the church. The Boomers for the most part are C&E's and probably non believers.
The work ethics of the X generation and whatever the generation below them appears to be excellent with a good balance for family.
The faster we expose the losers of the Boomers as losers and rush them off the stage of politics and business, the better off America will be.
If "presided over" can be interpreted to mean, "observed in astonishment as", then perhaps this indictment may stand.
While we were minding our own business, an old-fashioned attitude, a groundswell of opportunists discovered that the "honor system" meant that they could steal all the cookies they wanted.
Damn right I'm all for Social Security and Tax Reform. I'll not be a slave wage to prop up some convoluted, pyramid-scheme Social Security system without a fight!
Not a huger Boomer fan. Thanks for that, Mom.
I thought the Baby Boomers were born between 1944 and 1964. That would mean that Generation X started in 1965. I think there should be a recount. I'm sure millions of people born in the early 60s feel disenfranchised.
Thank Heaven my kids are Gen-X! They exemplify all that is important for our country to survive and flourish.