Nails it..
BS
Incoherent babbling by yet again another poor boomer..
Our generation is devoid of leaders, devoid of ideas and most importantly devoid of a moral compass.
We have failed as a generation and most importantly and most regrettably we have failed our Country.
PJ is always right, except he never saw Generation X, (which I would now call “Generation Reagan”), who now has children in the military, guiding big-assed things, and voting when they get home.
This is still a great nation, despite ourselves and our peers.
Yeah, well, we’ll always have Woodstock. So there!
Navel-gazing, one thing boomers excel at.
Since even the youngest are showing gray, maybe it’s time to drop the “baby” adjective?
Usually I like O’Rourke.
I can’t read this guy - never could. After the first paragraph, my eyes glaze over at the heavy, heavy humor.
But I will say that as a boomer, my husband and I have been paying into all the social benefits for about 40-50 years now so that - for example - my wealthy mom can get huge ss checks and use medicare for every damn sniffle that disturbs her sleep. My husband and I are planning to be homeless in about 20 years with untreated, fatal illnesses, lol!
I run out of breath when I read this guys stuff.
No, I am not reading out loud.
‘Ol PJ left out the Vietnam War: wounded an entire generation by carving out the bravest and forcing the remainder to hide under their blankets. We still can’t face the effects those eight years did to our country but as a hint, one of those effects is the election of that useless radical in the White House.
Truthfully, the waning years of the Baby Boom generation have far more in common with Generation X, so much so that they are sometimes called “Generation Jones”. By the time they got to school, they got the reaction, the adjustment, to the Boomers that was pretty pathetic.
For the most part, the Boomers got the advantages of the old system, while complaining about it. Then Generation X got the post-modern restoration of some teachers trying to restore some quality to the schools. The “Jonesers” got stuck with the dregs, neither “fish, flesh no fowl.”
Generation Jones, for the most part, just fit in the cracks between the oddly enough, more conformist Baby Boomers, and the more entrepreneurial Generation X’ers.
The disaster hit with Generation Y, who are “getting it in the shorts”. Saddled with huge debts, no jobs, and high prices, there is no room in the inn for them.
But turnabout is fair play. Now in their elder years, the Baby Boomers are finally going to have to pay, because no one else can. They already spent their retirement on the good life in their younger years, and it’s all gone. So many are looking forward to working until they die.
The Jonesers never lived high on the hog, so they will get to enjoy more modest living in their retirement. And Generation X’ers made it for themselves, not to share, so they will plan to keep it, not pay the debts of others.
Nail meet hammer.
P.J. Is a hoot. He writes with real elegance. He writes like Pat Conroy would write if Pat Conroy had a sense of humor.
Forget there are two different baby boomers, those who produced the radical left and those who produced center-right folks. I am in the later.