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Generation X is where it started falling apart.

Every Generation wants to make it better for the next, Generation X was were it became too much. At some point you have to let them fend for themselves, you can't give them a rose garden.

The Viet Nam era (complete with the draft) wasn't much better.

I tend to agree. But it exists.

My opinion,...a large part of it is due to the fact that young working people are getting peeled for Social Security that they'll never get while the Boomer generation is drawing it.

But it also has to do with the liberal policies that came about as a result of the 60's upheaval. But even so,..the entire generation didn't participate in it.

All in all,..I just think it's funny when youngsters piss and moan about the Boomers.

JFC, you are a baby, I came out of retirement in 2001 to participate in those wars though on a very minor level.

I always felt that my life was blessed w/ the opportunities presented and have never felt privileged or guilty for taking advantage of gifts available. I think that you represent your generation well and and pass your values on to your children which is all that one can do. Leading by example has proven over millenia to be the secret to great civilizations. Those that can't do, whine on the innanets.


mike r

I cant imagine.

Mike. I am not sure who you are yelling at.

And to add insult to injury......we didn't have a generation to blame it on.

Yeah....but you had some good chants.

Hey Hey LBJ......

I'm tunning in late here, but is someone picking on big Jim? That would be"Justification"!

next summer I want to read about Birdwatcher and Bristoe riding a tandem pedal-bike to Jim's place in Montana. I believe it would be good reading.

Guess I was living under a rock because "Hell No We Won't Go" is the only one I remember.

I just got another batch of pickles out of the canner.

Tried the Mrs Wages kosher style dill.




The old freezer baskets I picked up at the swap meet (cement ledge right before the dumpster) worked well transporting the jars.



I guess Boomers....being cashed up....just pay Mexicans to make their Kosher dills for them......

,....walked 8 miles to school in four feet of snow,......uphill both ways.

You or the Mexican?

I qualify as a "late boomer" (1959) but was a military brat at remote bases and my dad fought -- so I missed the 1960s garbage and have always hated stoned flower children. My parents did not spoil me at all, and I'm glad.

The Mexican was pulling Bristoe on a sled.

Thats what I figured.


Course that was tough times.


The rich kids had two Mexicans pulling.

Mexicans hadn't been invented when I was a kid.

Fair point.