Posted on 11/15/2009 4:55:08 PM PST by The Magical Mischief Tour
I don't think it's just Gen Xers who feel this way. A lot of employers are in for a rude awakening when - and it will - the economy eventually turns around.
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On behalf of all my fellow Generation Xers I want to thank the self-proclaimed Greatest Generation and the Baby Boomers for leaving us a country in such a strong moral, economic, and political position.
For my fellow Generation Xers and upcoming Yers, enjoy the illusion cast upon you by American Idol while you can. In the meantime, pick up “Atlas Shrugged” and go through a few pages during commercial breaks.
Yeah right. I would not be betting on any economic turn around unless a judge will hear the Hussein BC issue. If he stays in until 2012 he will do incredible damage.
I don’t see much of a chance at an economic turn around as long as the democrat and rhinos wield power.
We are going to need to fundamentally transform America. Vast cuts in government agencies and government spending. Punitive corporate taxes and taxes on small businesses must go if we are to succeed in transforming our economy. Entitlement programs need to be cut off for future generations.
More generational generalizing. There has always been a lack of promotion possibilities. “promotional possibilities” are always there for self-promoters.
I think this likely describes the majority of Gen Xers like I was Maynard Krebs.
Gen X and Yers if you want to preserve your jobs and have a chance for higher pay, establish an American management system that understands that if America keeps her high tech secrets, she keeps her high standard of living. The boomers blew it by accepting the notion of globalism that everything and everyone can be outsourced without thinking what is the impact on the people of the United States. I remember an old saying, if we give everything the unions want, we will have no trade, but if we give corporate America everything they want we will have no good paying jobs. I think we swung too much to corporate America (just look at what the Wall Street lead, government enablement did to our economy and finances). Somewhere between the two extreme viewpoints is the answer. I think that will be the challenge our new generation of leaders must resolve.
Just as an example, China and the emerging world is a good example where the stable concepts of socialism and the freedom of capitalism are mixed together that meets the unique characteristics of the country. These nations are emerging and prospering. Europe sticks to pure socialism and they stagnate, the US sticks to free for all capitalism and they just destroyed themselves with one gigantic financial bubble and believe it or not are trying to inflate an even larger one. Europe and the US style of economics is not the answer.
Perfectly, perfectly stated!!!
“Entitlement programs need to be cut off for future generations.”
No. They need to be cut off now.
And now we will hear from “conservatives” who have all kinds of reasons why their particular form of welfare is special and shouldn’t cut off.
The United States in not Captilistic, it is Corportist. The small and middle sized businesses pay for the subsidizations of the Too Big Too Fails and Unionized Manufacturing. If we were a Capitalistic country we would have less big banks, more small banks. Not a Big 3, but the small 30 auto makers. People would have more skill sets, because being a local technical expert in your community would give you greater wealth and social standing. There would be an incentive to achieve, instead of dropping out of school and trying to be an NBA star for your one small chance. Being a Capatilist Republic should be our goal, but instead we are a Corportist Oligarchy. Don’t let the Oligarchs use Crony Capatilism and tell you that we now need Socialism. Socialism is just another scam that keeps the powers that be in power. Look at Al Gore for an example. He can go from a Socialist Environmentalist to a Corportist power player with his own Congressionally-backed firm depending on the audience and setting.
I’d settle for them returning all the money I’ve dumped into Social Security over my last 20 years. Then at least I can let my kids inherit it to help pay their future draconian tax burden.
— Class of 84
You are going to need to have a cut off age. If we have to sell national assets to meet obligations to those that have given significant chunks of money expecting some day to benefit from that investment, we should sell the national assets. Add means testing to SS and medicare, medicaid.
Get rid of the IRS and transition to a flat tax, git rid of onerous regulations and we will grow our way out of our current predicament.
git = get
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Yeah, we'll they may have resumes, but the Baby-Boomers will still have the jobs. I am a well paid Boomer manager. I am 63. Why should I "fire myself" and retire at 66??! We'll, I won't. I am healthy and fit and maybe at 70 I'll consider retirement. But just maybe. And the X'ers waiting..will just have to wait. That's life. Get over it. And the comment, "once economic recovery begins" is a joke. That may take 10 years! Sorry Xer's, you may be out of luck. Poor timing on when you were born. Lot's of luck.
Yeah, we'll they may have resumes, but the Baby-Boomers will still have the jobs. I am a well paid Boomer manager. I am 63. Why should I "fire myself" and retire at 66??! We'll, I won't. I am healthy and fit and maybe at 70 I'll consider retirement. But just maybe. And the X'ers waiting..will just have to wait. That's life. Get over it. And the comment, "once economic recovery begins" is a joke. That may take 10 years! Sorry Xer's, you may be out of luck. Poor timing on when you were born. Lot's of luck.
My GF learned the phrase "curmudgeon" by trying to figure out a good English word for my "critical grouchiness." In this sense, I guess I am a typical GenXer.
BTW: What's orange and looks good on a Millennial/Gen Yer?
Fire, of course...
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