Posted on 04/25/2007 4:18:43 AM PDT by Chi-townChief
Funny how the newspaper business is failing World Wide. Funny how they all print the same BS... Cause and effect... ya think?
LLS
I dont understand your comment.
I’d be melancholy too if I was only allowed to use one square.
I have one word for this moronic “journalist”.
“Rations”.
What I see is a generation so coddled and sheltered... that they find horrible what a depression-era child would find paradise.
Wussy-boys, the lot of them.
“Waaah! I saw on TV a bad man with a gun. Waaah, waaah, mommy, *SOB*!”
“That’s okay, Johnny! You’re only 22 years old, you can’t be expected to cope with scenes on TV like that. I’ll call the grief counsellor, the psychiatrist, and the pharmacy (for some Prozac). There, there! Don’t cry, it makes Mommy sad.”
Like I said... Wussy little mama’s boys.
(Grief counsellors, for Pete’s sake! AAARGH! I wonder if the children of Al Capone’s victims thought they needed grief counsellors?)
They fought World War One in their youth, they suffered in the Depression when raising their kids, they saw their kids die in World War Two in middle age and then saw America go down the toilet in the 1960's in their old age.
I was almost 21 in ‘77. Rock and Roll took a dive, disco was everywhere and Jimmuh was President. ‘77 sucked!
Bunk.
The debacle of the Superdome may have been the worst example of people acting like idiots, but the San Franciso Earthquake and the Galveston Hurricane/Flood were worse natural disasters.
This is Roeper’s sneaky and cowardly way of saying to the 80s generation that their sacrifices in Bush’s war don’t count for much.
I don’t get the criticism here. This article seems to say that today’s generation doesn’t have it “worse” than previous ones. I agree. If anything, this generation has it relatively easy. We are at war, but few “feel it” as there is widespread prosperity and no draft. Every generation has its trials and tribulations—as it should. But you’ve got to keep things in perspective.
The first thing I thought of when I started reading the article was the new SUV's I see in school parking lots. I then stopped reading.
If we don’t win this WOT - then this generation is going to have a serious wakeup call. Then we’ll see whether they have true grit.
Try being in you 20’s, starting a family and buying a house these days... Tougher than it has been in a long time.
Simply that, in ‘77, we were all out dancin’ the night away whereas ‘37 was the depths of the depression soon to be followed by the war. Generally speaking, of course.
Obviously; but Roeper chooses 1977 as the bottom of the pit. Politically it was pretty low, of course, with the installation of Mr. Peanut as president but for 21 year-olds in general, it was one huge party.
HUH? Seems the article disproves your "alert".
More like a (WHINNING GenX Alert).
Good point.
Bump
But not when compared to ‘37.
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