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2019-03-08 Home Front: Culture Wars

Nation's Gen Xers Announce Plan To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Watching Boomers, Millennials Tear Each Other To Shreds

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Posted by Besoeker 2019-03-08 02:03|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 Once again BB's satire is pretty much true - Howe & Strauss book 'Generations' addresses the idea

Posted by Glenmore 2019-03-08 04:21|| 2019-03-08 04:21|| Front Page Top

#2 and both are right.

Boomers really screwed things up more though IMHO.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2019-03-08 05:57|| 2019-03-08 05:57|| Front Page Top

#3 Yep BP, my generation screwed up big time...or you can blame our over-indulgent parents.

I saw a distinct difference in boomers depending on the ages of their parents. Those parents who were adults in the '30s were much different in their attitudes towards the children than the ones who were young in the 40's.

Posted by AlanC 2019-03-08 07:55|| 2019-03-08 07:55|| Front Page Top

#4 Gen X is going to be the generation that pays for it all. Pay for the boomer retirements and the millennial basic income, all the while locked out of senior positions because if the boomers retire, they go broke a week later.

Posted by Herb McCoy 2019-03-08 08:10|| 2019-03-08 08:10|| Front Page Top

#5 It's amusing satire, but it reveals a deeper, sadder truth for Xers.

The dominant partners in the "triumvirate" of generations are the Mills and Booms.

It's Octavian versus Antony, with Lepidus shunted off to the side.

Posted by charger 2019-03-08 10:00|| 2019-03-08 10:00|| Front Page Top

#6 Gen X is going to be the generation that pays for it all.

It seems to me that the Millennials are paying into Social Security, etc. at twice the level that we Gen X-ers did at the same age, and they won’t get anything back. The generation that really raked it in compared to what they paid in — creating the situation that the Boomers are being blamed for — was the pre-Baby Boom Silent Generation, born during the Great Depression and WWII. The Baby Boomers have been seeing retirement ages raised and cost of living increases disappear just as they reach retirement age. So yes, they did increase benefits without much thought, but they were adding gingerbread trimming to the house that FDR designed and the Silents built.

Posted by trailing wife 2019-03-08 11:06|| 2019-03-08 11:06|| Front Page Top

#7 Yeah, those darn boomers...living under threat of nuclear holocaust from the day they were born. Lucky they never launched that one. But if they hadn't elected Ronald Reagan the USSR would still be in business. Never learned how to play video games so they always want to play outside. That's weird. They don't like socialism and they all think borders should be secure.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2019-03-08 12:06|| 2019-03-08 12:06|| Front Page Top

#8 Half of Gen X will get social security, half will be screwed like the millennials. I think Gen X knew this and hopefully are preparing for it.

Posted by rjschwarz 2019-03-08 20:25|| 2019-03-08 20:25|| Front Page Top

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