Posted on 06/13/2004 9:09:41 AM PDT by qam1
I love what President Reagan did for this country, but we are still recovering from deep wounds caused by the Clintons. If we are going to be the shining city in the future, we have to clean the poison left by the 90's. We can do it, but it is is no easy task. The future depends on doing it successfully.
One More Tribute (to President Reagan)
Bill
I have to confess now...I am greatly confused. Being born in 1967, am I part of the late boomer wave? or am I a part of GenX? I didnt even have boomer parents, with my dad born in 1936 and my mom in 1940, but they came of age right about the time of the Korean War. What's more, Im adopted, and my birthmother, for all I know, was a hippie, and so where do I fit it? Its why I always make the cutoff date for the GenXers to be right at 1980, because that's when the Boomers started settling into their careers and began having babies. The amount of money spent on toys in the 80s was thrice that of what had gone on when I was a child. I have a great deal of affection for the after '80 child boom, because I have a feeling they too will greatly surprise their parents, but I get a bit incensed when my peers are brushed over to call the boomlet the Genxers. We have then gone from being "whatever" to "who?" which is worse than being labeled. We weren't easily defined or manipulated, so I feel we were tossed aside...and now that we have a hero with which we can identify ourselves and makes ourselves known, YOUNGER groups are claiming him too.
GAH...its silly and profound at the same time.
OH I am SO glad someone posted this. It is exactly how I feel. I was born in 1974, and growing up under Reagan I absolutely fell in love with this country. He made me believe that we could do anything we set our minds to- he was like our country's grandfather. My grandfather was the man that always believed in me- I could do no wrong. He had all the faith in me that I could do whatever I put my mind to, and that I was a good person. To me, Regan was like that to our country. Sure, we might not be perfect, but we are intriniscally good, and we can do anything we set our minds too. We were beloved by this man, and we all felt it.
I feel the same kind of loss for President Reagan I felt for my grandfather- just heartbreak and a deep sadness. Who will believe in us now with that same unwavering adoration? I adore our current president, but I don't think he conveys that same love of country as well as Reagan.
I was a sophomore in college when Reagan was reelected (which was the first time I was old enough to vote!) and as a known Reagan supporter, more than a few of the jackbooted militant feminutties sneeringly called me "Reagan Youth" (with a heavy German accent).
I think in their first book they call this the "echo effect" where the Baby Boomers had babies, and so there was an "echo baby boom". These were the "babies on board." Meanwhile, noone bothered to put us in carseats, etc. Yeah....Gen Reagan was neglected from the get-go. We're the most mis-treated, hard-working generation.
You realize, of course, they're saying those who had not a clue of Reagan are the "Reagan Generation"?! (Read: it ain't "Generation X" he's talking about!)
No way, no how, no sir! I CAME OF AGE during the Reagan Revolution, so I know darn well who he was, alot of what he did, and definitely what he stood for. *I* am the Reagan Generation!
Never mind that the Dart was basically a '60s car, not a '70s.
Don't you love the hypocrisy of the Left:
'80s - generally noted as a huge ecomonic boom, dominated by Reagan, called the "Decade of Greed" and selfishness by hippie boomers.
'90s - proudly declared biggest economic expansion ever, dominated by Clinton, not a word about greed or selfisness.
It all depends on who's in control.
Like I said in post 26, guys:
This post claims any1 born from '79 to '90 is the "Reagan Generation" - so that means you cannot be *older* than 24! ;-)
"say the same of the approximately 30 million Americans who were born **during** the Reagan years"
We've been shafted again on this generation thing! Maybe we really are the "lost generation"! Or is that the "Shafted Generation"?
Good post ping for later reading
Get a hobby.
BULL PUCKY!! You need to have been growing up in the Reagan era IMO -- i.e. during your formative years you lived with him as President. I would say like 1970-1985 would be my "Reagan Generation." Those old enough to remember him as president and be influenced by his leadership.
Without hypocrisy, what would the Left be? Genetic mutations, maybe.
Hey, you're still shafting me! ;)
I'd say it's really GenX (whatever!), like 1965-1975 (any1 born during Reagan's years shouldn't count!!!). We were all at least reasonably sentient certainly when Reagan left office, and most of us were very aware of his ascendency to the office.
Get lost.
I turned 18 in 1985, so I can't even say that I got a chance to vote for him...but I would have! Does that make me a non-GenReaganite? I don't think so. He was talked about every day of my life then.
LOL! I love it how we all love Reagan enough we are fighting to have our years included. It gives me some cool ideas for some Tshirts though.
Bite me.
That's OK, because as a Reagan teenager, I gave up on most of my teachers and the media by the time I was around 15.
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