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I think the millenials will be, by far, the most progressive generation to date. I for one am looking forward to their accomplishments.
i'm badass because of the year i was born in!
I think the millenials will be, by far, the most progressive generation to date. I for one am looking forward to their accomplishments.
Nah...like Chuck Norris, your birthyear is badass because you were born in it.
I don't know you or how you were raised...but I do know from experience that if you continue to place blame on a general group of people instead of taking owness for yourself regarding what you want to achieve...you live life focusing on things that will keep you from achieving your goals.
Every generation is going to have achievers, idiots, rich, poor, disfunctional and every adjective description for the people in that generation.
Baby Boomers, or any generation for that matter, is not going to ruin your life unless you allow it to happen. As I pointed out before...maybe my grandfather was a very wise person...he never believed (bought into) that Social Security was meant to be a means of retiring comfortably so he made investments and did other things during his life to secure his future for when he got old. But the wisest thing he EVER did was not live beyond his means and NEVER committed to a loan he could not pay.
Those decisions are serving him well now. He and my granmother don't have to live out the rest of their lives in a retirement home that sucks every last penny out of their hard earned savings. They still have the freedom to make their own decisions.
I did read a funny little vignette mocking the boomers.
Think about the dominant portrayal of the last six decades:
The 1950's were an era of cozy domesticity.
The 1960's were when sex was invented.
The 1970's were when everybody had chest hair, did lots of drugs, and had lots of sex.
The 1980's were when career development was important.
The 1990's were about the stock market, business in the tech revolution, and raising families.
The 2000's have been all about 401(k)'s, home equity, and the high cost of college.
Conclusion: The 2010's will be all about how wise and valuable the elderly are and how we should ensure they are cared for.
That the problem with alot of people. SS is just a safety net meant to keep people from dying in the streets when they're too old to work. It's amazing that our politicians are trying to get people to start spending again for short term gain when they should be encouraging everyone to start saving.
P.S. Re: "The millennial generation is so wonderful" narrative in the media.
The millenials are the children of the baby boomers.
"The millennial generation is so wonderful" = "Look at what a wonderful job we baby boomers did as parents!"
I'm not sure if you referring to the Pew report, but it doesn't list millenials as 'wonderful' or anything. Just lists outcomes from polls and whatnot, and Pew seems pretty reliable to me.
Again you miss the point. I am not complaining about my situation or that of my family. I have no desire to get into specifics but unless there is a mass revolution or the US is conquered by another state I will be just fine.
All you ever keep talking about is your own little egocentric situation. I am glad that you and you're family are in a good position.
I am not pointing any one particular individual out. I am judging an entire demographic. When I say that we will all be better off when the baby boomers as a whole are out of positions of power and out of the voting block I am not talking about you or any other individual in question.
I am confused. maybe millennials and GenY are the same thing but generations are 20 year intervals. IOW
1944-1963 BB ages 46-65
1964-1983 GX ages 26-45
1984-2003 GY/M??? 6-25
2004-2023 ??? unborn-5
Now obviously things blur but that is the general guide line
I understand the point you are making. And I can agree with the generalization of your points nor am I dismissing the validity of them.
All I was doing in using my grandfather as an example is that we don't have to conform to a general demographic and we can survive beyond that which a general demographic might fall under.
I admire your passion for the obvious need for reform though our differences on how to achieve that goal are far apart. I am not for more government intervention in our lives as though we are a herd of cattle being forced to feed at the trough...injected with medicines that might have adverse effects to our lives...forcably made to contribute to federal programs that might not have anything to do with my or my families life.
I'm a huge proponent of state's rights and the tenth amendment. Sure...if law requires that we abide in a certain way then we as a people of this country must abide by those laws. But too often since the 1930's federal politics and intervention has been causing our problems to increase...not any one gender of people. And our politics are governed by a very small group compared to the mass populas.
If you or I believe in any obtainable goal I believe our freedom as individuals can uphold and make true those goals more so than having our freedom taken away in forcing any political agenda down our throats. From what I've seen over the past 40 years...we are a contry that is becoming farther and farther divided. Federal intervention is causing that divide and the founding principles of this nation warned of such controll and what it would eventually do to a nation.
I'll be long gone by the time the GenY's and Miliniums eventually take control of this country's future...I just fear for those generations if this nation stays the course of expanding government controll which will not allow us as individuals to have the options my grandfather once had while living his life.
No, because there will be even more people replacing them.
they are starting to drop like flies:
Percentage of USA Baby Boomers who are dead:
8.96490714 %
Total USA Baby Boomers left alive:
77,705,734.56
Seconds before the next USA Baby Boomer dies:
39.0
USA Baby Boomers died in last 24 hours:
2,213.2
Who is the .56 person.
Not true. Most baby boomers were not hippies, that is an over blown fallacy.
Joe Biden. He's technically alive, but isn't functioning at anything close to the mental capacity of a normal human being.Who is the .56 person.
Probably the fetus in the process of being killed.Who is the .56 person.
Ooops... wrong years...
Who gives a ? Generational interpretation is a field left for unemployed staticians with oodles of time and a lot less reason.
Here's a thought; it never mattered who was in the majority.
Woooo-hoooo!
Big thought, I know. The trick is, making people believe they have any control whatsoever. The course of this country has FAR more influences on it then the predominant voting bloc. You can make some interesting observations about each generation, this is true. But only observations, no conclusions. To observe implies "it already happened for me to see". Meaning, much too ing late to do anything about.
Humans are fickle. Just because the country bought the gravy train on the backs of its unborn progeny, doesnt mean our dumbasses wont do the same damn thing if not worse (healthcare, stimulus packages, bailouts, etc).
Looking for someone or something else to blame is not exclusive to ANYONE. The world ing over, humanity looks for scapegoats. This fact of the human condition is personified in every facet of human construction, whole countries to individual citizens. Japan hated (hates?) the Chinese, vice versa. USSR blames US, US blames USSR. Jews blame Arabs, Arabs blame Jews. Dems hate Repub, Repub hate Dems. Blame him, he blames you!
This isnt unique or more prounounced in some quasi-generational divide. Its being ing human and the laws of an assembled crowd still apply.
Every generation since the beginning of time has been manipulated in some way or another, to differing degrees by different powers. Our country is one based on the aquisition of wealth, not birth-right or noble station like it used to be (and still is in other places). With a new national focus, new (and old) manipulative techniques and power structures spring to life in the name of the same causes with the same answers.
"Its not my fault, but this is how we fix it."
Whottt's right (pain to admit that)...the world needs to be depopulated. Until that day, we are stuck trying to figure out who ed up and when. Even when it doesnt matter, even in a world in a compe ion with itself for limited resource.
Unless of course some brainiac perfects cold fusion or somehow derives limitless energy from water.
If that happens, depopulation isnt necessary.
OTOH, the revers is true most hippies were BB.
If you are making policy decisions that subsume large demographics you are forced to take them into 'general interpretation. This of course is a big justification for decentralization but it is what it is.
Yeah, Millennials and Gen Y are the same thing. But most people don't consider Gen X to be 20 years, closer to 15.
Something like:
1945-1964 - Baby Boomers
1965-1979 - Gen X
1980-2000 - Gen Y
I think they've changed Gen X's numbers downward, to late 70's. Gen Y seems to be the same thing as "millenials".
Edit: Blah! Kori, you beat me to it.
come on yall just looked that up on wiki, why would anyone know when gen x starts and gen y begins?
http://www.boomerdeathcounter.com/
we are now at 10% fellas!!!
LMAO at the ignorance of the OP.
Those hated working baby boomers are the ones currently paying a significant amount of the taxes.
All the generation Xers and later that are having babies like rabbits are in the 50% that don't pay taxes.
Just WAIT till THEY turn 18 and start voting.
All of you aging Generation Xers will have your liberal ideology crammed right up your ass.
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