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mcgraw_wv · 11-05-2008, 11:35 AM

And Tom Brady > Steve Grogan ...
End of Story

***Leave No Doubt*** · 11-05-2008, 11:36 AM

Generation X has needed a cause for a long time but never hopped on the ones that were here for the taking.

PatriotsReign · 11-05-2008, 11:38 AM

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Originally Posted by mcgraw_wv

And Tom Brady > Steve Grogan ...
End of Story

Guy!! I never said anyone was BETTER than anyone else. If you could read & comprehend my ONLY argument was that Richter's comment that the baby boomer generation was a failure was wrong.

And I finally got you to agree with me and that was all I wanted.

PatriotsReign · 11-05-2008, 11:41 AM

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I never said he was right either...

Oh, really?

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I think as far as leaving the country in better shape than they got it, they failed.

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mcgraw_wv · 11-05-2008, 11:52 AM

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Oh, really?

Yeah, I feel your generations hand off of the country is in worse position than what you received it in. Granted you accomplished some great things like civil rights, but you guys gave us a country that is known as a world wide aggressor militarily. A financial mess that is in debt to Communist China, and terror producing countries in the Middle East, an unprotected border that lets in millions of illegal immigrants yearly, a social security system that will fail once the baby boomers will start to draw from it... Wicked inflation compared to what you guys got ( According to the chart, it CPI was pretty stable when you guys got the reigns... )

Once again, there were lots of good things, but in regards to the status and standing our our institutions and our country, it's not in good shape.

mcgraw_wv · 11-05-2008, 11:56 AM

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Guy!! I never said anyone was BETTER than anyone else. If you could read & comprehend my ONLY argument was that Richter's comment that the baby boomer generation was a failure was wrong.

And I finally got you to agree with me and that was all I wanted.

My goodness, my Tom Brady > Steve Grogan was simply to try adn inject some humor into the conversation... You are way too high strung on this issue, very defensive, which leads me to believe you yourself is worried about the state of the union you will leave to the younger generation...

PatriotsReign · 11-05-2008, 12:00 PM

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Originally Posted by mcgraw_wv

Yeah, I feel your generations hand off of the country is in worse position than what you received it in. Granted you accomplished some great things like civil rights, but you guys gave us a country that is known as a world wide aggressor militarily. A financial mess that is in debt to Communist China, and terror producing countries in the Middle East, an unprotected border that lets in millions of illegal immigrants yearly, a social security system that will fail once the baby boomers will start to draw from it... Wicked inflation compared to what you guys got ( According to the chart, it CPI was pretty stable when you guys got the reigns... )

Once again, there were lots of good things, but in regards to the status and standing our our institutions and our country, it's not in good shape.

You already said all generation are the same and that Richter was wrong. Are you ok buddy? Are you confused? Messed up?

You shouldn't have gone here since I'm an economist for a living. Do you even understand the implications of that chart? Do you know what drives CPI upward?

When you can explain why the CPI has increased so dramatically, then we can discuss it because...FYI...the fact that it's gone up so much isn't necessarily a bad thing.

May I suggest you try a tactic not in the realm of economics? Because you won't fair well in this discussion.

Oh, another note is that no one in our society can affect economic trends. Even our federal gov't can't stop the coming recession, so you can't blame any economic indicator on a generation. Just as people from the 20's weren't responsible for the depression.

mcgraw_wv · 11-05-2008, 12:14 PM

Look, when history looks back at the last 40 years, it's not going to be pretty, and those last 40 years is the bulk of influential life the baby boomers ran things...

Great qoute from Wikipedia

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Generation X grew up during the later years, end of, and the decade following the Cold War. This time included the Ronald Reagan era.[10] The perception of Generation X during the late 1980s was summarized in a featured article in Time Magazine[11] (1990):

“ . . .They possess only a hazy sense of their own identity but a monumental preoccupation with all the problems the preceding generation will leave for them to fix . . .This is the twenty-something generation, those 48 million young Americans ages 18 through 29 who fall between the famous baby boomers and the boomlet of children the baby boomers are producing. Since today's young adults were born during a period when the U.S. birthrate decreased to half the level of its postwar peak, in the wake of the great baby boom, they are sometimes called the baby busters. By whatever name, so far they are an unsung generation, hardly recognized as a social force or even noticed much at all...By and large, the 18-to-29 group scornfully rejects the habits and values of the baby boomers, viewing that group as self-centered, fickle and impractical. While the baby boomers had a placid childhood in the 1950s, which helped inspire them to start their revolution, today's twenty-something generation grew up in a time of drugs, divorce and economic strain. . .They feel influenced and changed by the social problems they see as their inheritance: racial strife, homelessness, AIDS, fractured families and federal deficits.[1]

Yoru right, your generation Rocked... Thanks for the awesome invention called "Dual Income Households!" - It might be the thing that saves the institution of Marriage from complete failure!!!

***Leave No Doubt*** · 11-05-2008, 12:18 PM

I think it was 2 ex-hippies who invented the pc. Macintosh was developed by 2 guys, both of whom enjoyed their share of mind-altering drugs, traveled to India to meditate with some guru and bathed in sacred rivers...all that

Keep in mind many of the young men during the 60's were drafted into service. Vietnam....a long war with many casualties both physical and mental.

The ones who didn't go were mostly in college so likely pursued a lifestyle more in line with established norms.The ones who returned from 'Nam were denigrated, spit on, and 1 out of 4 returned as drug addicts.

The Hippies self-destructed with drugs but also events like Kent State and Chicago were pretty successful in silencing them.

When "The Hippies" are part of a college course in American History, you know they absolutely left their mark, good or bad.

PatriotsReign · 11-05-2008, 12:25 PM

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Look, when history looks back at the last 40 years, it's not going to be pretty, and those last 40 years is the bulk of influential life the baby boomers ran things...

Great qoute from Wikipedia

Yoru right, your generation Rocked... Thanks for the awesome invention called "Dual Income Households!" - It might be the thing that saves the institution of Marriage from complete failure!!!

You seem bitter....GET OVER IT.

So I guess you chose not to pursue and economics discussion...good choice.