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Maybe because fulsome pity pot tirades and blame gaming don't do much for you in life.

Whahhhh! Whahhh! Toke, Snort, Sniff!

Ceffer says

Maybe because fulsome pity pot tirades don't do much for you in life.

Nothing like a smirking Boomer to rub it in your face! How DARE you Gen X Slacker or Selfish Millennial) complain about us Boomers! We've done nothing but sold our children's and grandchildren's futures down the river in exchange for our own ease and wealth. It's your own fault for not being able to stop us!

From the article:

"While Generation X sunk further down and the millennials have not even been able to afford their own apartments or homes, the Baby Boom generation benefitted from this. The Baby Boomers were told they were special over and over, and boy they never let us forget it! Thus they did not care about what happened to their children after them. Most generations want things to improve for their children, the Baby Boomers, put up bumper stickers on their new Cadillac that said "Spending my children's inheritance"---and boy did they!"

Baby Boomers have highest divorce rate in American History and are 7x less likely than parents to start own business.

One of my good friends who is 47 years old is telling me that once her kids are out of high school, (youngest of two is a Junior) she doesn't see any reason to go on. She had bone tumor removal (possibly malignant), and her bones in her lower limbs keep breaking every few months. She and her husband have had great government county and/or tech jobs, yet they are never able to make all their bills and have been constantly threatened with foreclosure on the house they bought in late 2000's in the Bay Area. They were constantly denied the HAMP after applying multiple times. I believe currently they are in some sort of bankruptcy plan. She is taking care of her elderly Boomer aunt who has cancer since all other family members are selfish Boomers and haven't the faintest idea how to care for anyone but themselves. I am trying to cheer her up and convince her that her life will get better, but she doesn't see how it will get better. Honestly, I don't know how it will get better either.

http://www.alternet.org/economy/10-economic-woes-generation-x-faces

"The generation between baby boomers and millennials could be in for a rough ride.

You hear a lot about millennials being in a tight spot financially, but less about the generation sandwiched between them and the baby boomers: Generation X. The oldest Gen-Xers were born in the mid-1960s and are now in their early 50s; many other Xers are well into their 40s, and they've suffered the brunt of several economic downturns.

...But with Gen-X, there is a widespread move away from home ownership. According to a report released by the Urban Institute earlier this year, 19 million renters in the U.S. are former homeowners—and 31 percent of that 19 million are aged 36-45, while 26 percent are aged 46-55. Laurie Goodman, one of the authors of the study, told the Huffington Post’s Shane Ferro that she was struck by how heavily Gen-X weighs in the number of foreclosures brought about by the Great Recession. And Goodman said that while low credit scores created during bad economic times can be repaired eventually, the housing crisis left a major scar on Gen-X by “permanently raising the number of renters.”

... Nonetheless, Gen-X has been slammed hard by the Great Recession; Pew Research, in 2013, reported that Gen-X lost almost half its wealth during the worst of the Great Recession. And considering that 2030 is only 14 years away, they don’t have that long to turn things around...."

Indiana Jones says

Generation X is dying younger

Well, our motto was always "die young and leave a good looking corpse".

Indiana Jones says

Generation X is dying younger

Sure, the Baby Boomers did make our lives shorter, but in their defense, they also made life seem longer.

Basements can be damp and unhealthy.

GenX MillXY, the moldy generations.

The US was always a country where people believed if you work hard, you will make it. And conversely if you are poor, it's your fault, your responsibility, you're just not working hard enough or smart enough. Except today the middle class is being destroyed, stretched between a large part of the population who can't make ends meet and the rich on the other side. (And yes the generations lines matter.)
So people who still argue "our poor are rich by comparison to other countries, they have iphones, they just living beyond their means", these people are in danger of becoming extremely irrelevant.
It doesn't matter if they are lazy or racists, they will make sure you feel their pain, starting with the ballot box.

I've had 4 genx friends and aquaintences die. Two had a heart attack, the 3rd lung cancer, and I think the fourth offed herself. That's not up to Hillary levels yet, but give it time. She's got decades on me.

Horrors, the tender GenX and MillXYs actually are discovering that people die, and that the stats that tell everybody they will be tap dancing at 90 aren't true?

The bodies start stacking conspicuously from about 35 on. It's the way things are, not statistical wishful thinking. One out of seven men don't make it to 62 which is the minimum SS age, much less collect Medicare. In Russia, due to alcoholism, by 59 half of all the men are dead, and only the other half live long enough to collect state pensions.

Actuarial figures are "fingers on the scale" for whichever entity wants to tilt them to pay out less whether they be insurance companies or government. People just like the stats that say that median life expectancies are high because it makes them feel better.

The boomers didn't invent this OR avoid it.

http://www.pnas.org/content/112/49/15078.full.pdf

The difference is the Boomers are living longer lives, and the generations following are living shorter lives. And this is only in the U.S.

http://www.pnas.org/content/112/49/15078.full.pdf

Rising morbidity and mortality in midlife among white non-Hispanic Americans in the 21st century

"There has been a remarkable long-term decline in mortality rates in the United States, a decline in which middle-aged and older adults have fully participated (1‒3). Between 1970 and 2013, a combination of behavioral change,prevention, and treatment (4, 5) brought down mortality rates for those aged 45–54 by 44%. Parallel improvements were seen in other rich countries (2). Improvements in health also brought declines in morbidity, even among the increasingly long-lived elderly (6‒9).

These reductions in mortality and morbidity have made lives longer and better, and there is a general and well-based presumption that these improvements will continue. This paper raises questions about that presumption for white Americans in midlife, even as mortality and morbidity continue to fall among the elderly...

...Increasing mortality in middle-aged whites was matched by increasing morbidity. When seen side by side with the mortality increase, declines in self-reported health and mental health, increased reports of pain, and greater difficulties with daily living show increasing distress among whites in midlife after the late1990s. We comment on potential economic causes and consequences of this deterioration."

45-54 sounds like a bunch of failed losers

Indiana Jones says

Classic Boomer techniques! Blame anyone but Me!

That's doing it wrong. Always blame the boomers. Those assholes had it made. Free love in the pre-aids days. Sex drugs rock and roll. Tons of hot and easy hippie chicks. Easy income falling from the sky. Affordable housing and the most awesome jobs that were always so easy to get. Now they're older and they're all millionaires with second and third homes. Boomers are so much more selfish than people in all other generations. Me, me, me. That's all they ever think about. I love hating them.

I'm thinking of dying my hair grey so I can be like them.

Based on a lot of things I've been hearing over this election cycle, seems to me that the Millennials blame Boomers and GenX equally. I've find this particularly concerning, because as the Boomers die off, we, Gen X, the smallest generation, will be at the Millennial mercy.... Just as we reach the point of being our most defenseless. So, be grateful that we're dying earlier. We're screwed either way, IMHO.

Incidentally, I think I identify more with Boomers than Millenials. I'm right in the middle of the generation, BTW. Take that as you will.

turtledove says

Based on a lot of things I've been hearing over this election cycle, seems to me that the Millennials blame Boomers and GenX equally.

I can't say I blame the millennials. They got a raw deal coming right out of the gate. It may get better for them as they have more time to recover once the Boomer's finally die, whilst the Gen Xers will be out of time.

The Boomers have no intention of letting go of the power positions they are in. I am wondering if the big power will skip the Gen X generation and go straight from Boomers to Millennials. The attitude I get from Boomer's is this: if you want anything that I have, you will have to wrest it from my dead cold clenched hand.

how about the fact that niggers and spics have multiplied many times since WW II and they are basically dumb monkeys who can't get a decent job and take care of themselves so they die early?

Incidentally, I think I identify more with Boomers than Millenials. I'm right in the middle of the generation, BTW. Take that as you will.

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Your tits beg to differ

Need more data, post a pic of your ass bending over. If Trump wins or something

If your generational identity starts with an "x"...

Ceffer says

Generation X is dying younger:

Considering that Gen X is the first generation that were brought up by parents who did narcotics in appreciable numbers, I am not surprised. Im solidly Gen X, but born to Silent Generation parents and I related to family members of that generation(and the one prior) more than anyone boomer age, who I mostly despised.

The drug issue is a huge one for me. My dad hammered into me never to do drugs, and I didn't. It did not hurt that I loved rock and metal in my teen years and several musicians train wrecked. I always respected Gene Simmons and Ted Nugent for eschewing drugs and being vocal about it, even when thats what every other band was doing. As an adult I've seen close up the havoc that drugs can create...have seen a couple people basically slowly commit suicide by using heroin, and the slow steady decline that meth causes. I can't even imagine how much parents who use damage their children.

I don't think the decline of the American family unit helped much either.

I would be interested in seeing a comparison of Gen X'ers with degrees vs those without. The huge declines in manufacturing clobbered the US particularly hard post NAFTA, which would be Gen X'ers in prime earning years. That would not damage those with degrees as much as the blue collar. I wonder how much the massive illegal immigration of the 1990's played into this also.

One thing that is true is the BoomFucks tended to not be medicated until after 18 or so, whether it be from alcohol, pot, cigarettes whatever.

The GenX and MillXYs were chronically medicated from an early age for hyperactivity or just plain FTC (failure to comply).

There is a saying that drug addicts die in their forties and alcoholics die in their fifties. If you are medicated before the age of 18, you are nearly a goner for being a chronic addict of some kind.

When I got my Playstation 4, they have a feature for people who can host their own web site complete with cameras. This is ostensibly for sharing games, but a lot of people just use these streaming web casts as social media. The number of intoxicated people with hookahs, pipes, big bottles of liquor, gangsters etc. was astounding, and they broadcast from their homes. Early adopters even showed sex until they found ways to block it. I saw a bunch of drunk white guys branding each other with forks by heating them with lighters. Lots of gang bangers, some with guns in their pants. A couple of kids once turned around and when they turned back, they had their balls hanging over the rim of their pants. Any female gets nothing but obscene and suggestive remarks, but a lot of girls seem to like it, they like any kind of weird attention, even from the "haters". The level of verbal exchange, with few exceptions, is barely above retarded.

It's easy to come away from these broadcasts and know why the drug dealers are so wealthy, we are an incredibly stoned nation.

My husband worked his way through college, after his parents stole his bonds and savings when he was a teen. Fast forward to 2008. Lost his career, went back to school, still isn't hired in his new field. African Americans and women get hired over him, even though he graduated summa cum laude. Can barely pay our bills, and just learned today that another friend from high school died, in addition to 2 others committing suicide. All in their 40's. Personally, I look forward to the after life, this place sucks. Brought into the world by a boomer mother who terrorized and emotionally abused me, but lives the high life to this day. Funny though, she's one of the most unhappy people I have ever known.

I hear that now there are more people dying from suicide than dying from war or crime in the world.
It was presented as good news: a sign that violence is down.
In this day and age, you are you own worse enemy: the person statistically most likely to kill you.

Embrace the future!

I was reading 38% of our potential workforce is on some sort of opiods. Reality is proving to be illusory and is causing a lot of stress.

@Rin
Give it up if the sores haven't opened up yet...
There is still time...
Indiana Jones says

Some articles blame the drugs, and AIDS.

I don't know about those other knuckle heads but I'm having a Ball!

errc says

Incidentally, I think I identify more with Boomers than Millenials. I'm right in the middle of the generation, BTW. Take that as you will.

I take it that you are a half-breed. lmao
.....

What all this generational talk?
Hate everybody!

Tenpoundbass says

I don't know about those other knuckle heads but I'm having a Ball!

Let's live forever & make everybody miserable. lol

After Turtle Dove died I went back and reread her comment below, the last comment I ever responded to of hers, and the correspondence was not lost on me. I even momentarily regretted posting this thread in light of what happened. Brings up some sadness to reread it.

turtledove says

Based on a lot of things I've been hearing over this election cycle, seems to me that the Millennials blame Boomers and GenX equally. I've find this particularly concerning, because as the Boomers die off, we, Gen X, the smallest generation, will be at the Millennial mercy.... Just as we reach the point of being our most defenseless. So, be grateful that we're dying earlier. We're screwed either way, IMHO.

Turtledove was a pretty smart cookie.

This song always seemed to me to be the consummate Gen X song...

www.youtube.com/embed/7iNbnineUCI

https://www.google.com/amp/amp.timeinc.net/fortune/2017/06/16/millennial-women-struggling-study/%3fsource=dam

"Millennial women are worse off than those of the Baby Boomer generation in terms of economic equality, health, and overall wellbeing, according to a new report by the Population Reference Bureau.

By comparing 14 indicators of socioeconomic progress and well-being, PRB researchers found that Millennial and Generation X women are often subjected to higher poverty rates, are more likely to die from suicide or an overdose, and have higher incarceration rates, among other things. Millennial and Generation X women are also less likely to work in high-paying STEM—science, technology, engineering, and mathematics—fields, researchers found. These findings are drastically different from the women of the Baby Boomer generation, who saw rapid progress in those same areas when compared to the generation before them, according to the study..."

Elsa says

Brought into the world by a boomer mother who terrorized and emotionally abused me, but lives the high life to this day.

Fucking White Male says

This song always seemed to me to be the consummate Gen X song...

Speak for yourself. This has always been my anthem!

www.youtube.com/embed/wv-34w8kGPM

Dan8267 says

Fucking White Male says

This song always seemed to me to be the consummate Gen X song...

Speak for yourself. This has always been my anthem!

www.youtube.com/embed/wv-34w8kGPM

Ew?

jazz_music says

Fucking White Male says

the consummate Gen X song...

Those guys are in their 50's now living in Huntington Beach Harbour.

I'm 45 and live in South Bay. What's your point?

I think the Generation thing is based on what generation raised you.
My Dad was 47 when I was born. I was raised by a very Stern no nonsense Greatest Generation.
That makes me more of a Boomer mentally.
Out of high school, I only related with people 10 years older than me. All of my close friends have always been older.
Aside from School the amount of people my own age I considered close friends I can still count on one hand.
From the moment they started wearing Plastic Jackets with zippers on them and spinning on their heads and liking the Pop shit that was out at that time.
I was thanking my Dad for giving me greater sense than to get in the trouble I watched other 18 year olds, I was running my own Carpet van doing work for Upscale designers getting paid on a job by job basses as soon as I was done. While other 18 year olds at the time we're Not much different than the Millennial were in the early 2000's.

They didn't have social issues they have today, but the Liberal teachers were already mind fucking them then.

Thank God I had my Dad.

Now at 49 I'm raising two step Grand kids not by choice but it's how the cards are dealt sometimes.

On a positive note, these kids are going to be raised by Boomer wisdom that got excellent Greatest Generation common sense training.
They are going to do as great as my two non step daughters have done.

The Gen X did a shitty fucking job of raising kids that's for sure. Thank God my kids had some Greatest wisdom in their regiment of home life reinforcement.

Did GenX raise most of the millennials with issues or was it boomer single moms? My kids are all still in elementary and I'm a GenX.

You don't think GenX'er weren't having kids from the age 15 to 20
Those kids were the Obama voters in 2008 and continue to be the brown shirt Soros thugs.

The Obama voters were all of the Blood Test babies on Jerry Springer in the late 80's.