[a fool in paradise]

Generation Reagan ping

[Nosterrex]

If you think that gen X is having problems, I'm a baby-boomer. America doesn't remotely resemble the America in which I grew up. Even though I would miss some of the technological advancements, I would gladly trade the 1950’s and 60’s for what passes for America today. I know someone will point to the advancement of blacks, but in the 1950’s and 60’s the black family was far better off than it is today with a 80% illegitimacy rate.

[Colonel Kangaroo]

If it has “Generation-X” in the title, it’s likely to be a work of whiny self-absorption tying all sorts of profound truths about the unfairness of life to what TV shows the writer watched when he was a kid and full of blame and resentment directed toward others on account of one’s own problems. This article did not disappoint.

[Dan Middleton]

I am sick of “reality shows” that are full of sexual insinuation and homosexual and interracial indoctrination.

The author put his whole piece in a bad light with this peculiar reference. What does this even mean?

[DustyMoment]

A lot of valid points in here, intermingled with some interesting rants. What most concerns me is that the author talks about his upbringing in a normal American household with all of the perks and memories that many of us have about growing up in America.

Where I have issue is when the author says “Screw you, America”. I won’t place the burden of America’s ills on this writer but I will say that his attitude is part of what is wrong with America and how we got to the point we are today. America IS a great country with great, wonderful and compassionate people. It is worth defending and fighting for and, rather than giving America the finger for the changes we are undergoing today, we ALL need to fight back and take America back from those who want to destroy our country.

But, when things get tough, if we all pick up our toys and go home, America, the land we love, suffers and changes character. We can’t change things for the better if we all adopt the “Screw you, America” attitude; it makes us bystanders at a train wreck.

[Vasilli22]

Gen X ping. DOB 1967. And, yes, I miss Reagan.

[DannyTN]

You can't blame the phrase "Compassionate Conservatism" for where we are today.

The only thing that Compassionate conservatism did was the Prescription drug bill that shifted drug insurance to Medicare and away from big company retirement plans.

What "Compassionate Conservatism" did NOT do was:

• Start the war on terrorism and the resultant spending. Terrorists did that.
• Cause the banking crisis. Greed, repeal of Glass-Steagall, failure to address and regulate derivative products and bank use of those products, failure to stop the abuses of the credit card industry, and failure to stop the abuses of the mortgage industry did that. None of those can be laid at the feet of Compassionate conservatism.
• Get Obama elected. Division in Republican ranks, attacks by RINO's such as Romney on true conservatives, and mediocre candidates, state, electoral, congressional and judicial officials unwilling to check Obama's eligibility, did that.
• Cause the lost of manufacturingGreed, Nixon's normalization of trade with China, and Free Trade policies with countries that don't share our philosophies did that.

[Colonel Kangaroo]

Upon further reflection, I see I treated the article in a superficial manner without reflection upon the actual content. The piece itself did not deserve such shallow dismissal. But my knee-jerk reaction to the Generation-X mention was triggered by seeing so much writing associated with that term being a broad brush assault on us who happened to have been born between 1945 and 1964. I’ll try next time to make more than a superficial reading before I shoot off my mouth.

[the OlLine Rebel]

While I can agree with some of the basic tenets, way too foul. Especially ironic when waxing nostalgic about a society with higher values.