Ping!!!!
Interesting, but as a Gen Xer - I am mad as hell. What is this, a placid dinner discussion or the future of our country? If this is the call to arms, we are screwed.
Interesting, but as a Gen Xer - I am mad as hell. What is this, a placid dinner discussion or the future of our country? If this is the call to arms, we are screwed.
Ended with a fizzle...
He’s right to be angry about the diminished nation left in the wake of the baby boomers, but offers no prescription or particular call to action for those that follow.
Well the ‘system’ is going to leave you with bills, continuous war, broken bridges, potholes, dirty air, and polluted water. You might as well know too that the jobs we had were exported by the ‘system’ elsewhere to make a bigger buck. The only way to control the ‘system’ is to vote but the ‘system’ will pick the candidate you can vote for.
Therefore, Reed Galin's points should be able to resonate with not only GenX, but early GenY.
As someone who was born a decade earlier, I remember watching the zenith of America, Americans walking on the moon, followed a few years later by watching Nixon resign and later Saigon fall on that same black and white console TV. A few years later I watched Americans taken hostage in Iran. And outside in the real world, an depression-level economic collapse in my town and state.
That is why Reagan and Reaganism is so powerful to me. The Goldwater/Reagan western states libertarian Republican philosophy, combined with the Friedman/Laffer economic philosophy, is the most cogent, logical, political-economic philosophy I have heard.
The "system", and the blame game just pisses me off. It is like watching Atlas Shrugged play out in real time.
Like minded GenXers need to organize our own PAC.
And in that moment, the individual multiplied himself into a plural, so that they didn't have to commit the drastic sin of referring to themselves as "himself."
So, how many eyes does the authors have, now? Is they got a mirror before and behind, for the infinite-reflection effect? How many mirrors does it take to achieve perfect gender-neutrality?
As a Gen-Xer I’m disgusted with Washington as much as anyone. People there, Republicans and Democrats, live in the past. The glory days are over, it’s time to get down to work.
Being politically active, I have two priorities. The first is to get my state in order with a conservative GOP majority. The states that are doing this are seeing it pay off in spades. We need a bulwark against the Washington stupidity and that’s as good as any.
The last is that we have too many in power, Republicans and Democrats, still living in the 60’s. I see it at every level. Much of that is centered around front-end Baby Boomers. My attitude now is this is 2011, and the old ways aren’t working. For those that refuse to change, I’m simply running them over and getting them out of power.
Our greatest treasure is the generation behind me. Most are not liberal and they are starting to see. I will NOT write them off and do everything I can subtle and overt to cultivate them to active conservatism. If they can be energized they could be the wave that puts us over the top.
Both for the women, especially single ones, and GenX, Y, Perry will have to generate a draw/argument for voting for him...jobs, protection (women especially) are a good start. Something akin to not having to move back home is a good start for Gen X, Y.
I suppose Palin will have the same issues, but moreso for single women...
Perry/Palin or Palin/Perry...most likely Perry/Palin...boy I hope there isn’t some stupid cat fights between Palin and Bachman. I hope Bachman bows out early.
Anyone wanna guess if Perry and Palin have talked yet?
memo to gen x: easy come, easy go.
I pulled up my bootstraps awhile ago and am pushing others to do the same. If everyone lived the philosophy of my tag line, then the entitlement mentality would be non-existent. Therefore both parties would be powerless....