AND THE BAND PLAYED ON

A confluence of events last week has me reminiscing about the days gone by and apprehensive about the future. I’ve spent a substantial portion of my adulthood rushing to baseball fields, hockey rinks, gymnasiums, and school auditoriums after a long day at work. I’d be lying if I said I enjoyed every moment. Watching eight year olds trying to throw a strike for two hours can become excruciatingly mind-numbing. But, the years of baseball, hockey, basketball, and band taught my boys life lessons about teamwork, sportsmanship, winning, losing, hard work, and having fun. There were championship teams, awful teams and of course trophies for finishing in 7th place. As my boys have gotten older and no longer participate in organized sports, the time commitment has dropped considerably. Last week was one of those few occasions where I had to rush home from work, wolf down a slice of pizza and head out to a school function. It was the annual 8th grade Spring concert.

My youngest son was one of a hundred kids in the 8th grade choir. I think it was mandatory, since none of my kids like to sing. As my wife and I found a seat in the back of the auditorium where we could make a quick escape at the conclusion of the show, neither of us were enthused with the prospect of spending the next ninety minutes listening to off-key music and lame songs. I’ve been jaded by sitting through these ordeals since pre-school. But a funny thing happened during my 30th band concert. I began to feel sentimental about the past and sorrowful about the future for these Millennials.

The Millennial generation was born between 1982 and 2004. Therefore, they range in age from 9 years old to 31 years old. There are approximately 87 million of them, or 27.5% of the U.S. population. In comparison, the much ballyhooed Boomer generation only has 65 million cohorts remaining on this earth. The Millennials will have a much greater influence on the direction of this country over the next fifteen years than the currently in control Boomers. There has been abundant scorn heaped upon this young generation by their elders. In a fit of irrationality befit the arrogant, hubristic, delusional elder generations, they somehow blame a cohort in which 54 million of them are still younger than 21 years old for many of the ills afflicting our society. This disgusting display of hubris is par for the course among these delusional elders.

Are Millennials addicted to their iGadgets, cell phones and Facebook pages? Probably. Do they spend too much time on the internet and playing PS3 & Xbox? Certainly. Have they been indoctrinated in social engineering gibberish like diversity and planet worship by government run public school bureaucrats? Absolutely. Are they young, foolish, immature, irrational and not respectful towards their elders? You betcha. Teenagers have acted like this forever. You acted like that. The ongoing crisis in this country and our unsustainable economic system are in no way the result of anything perpetrated by the Millennial generation.

Can the Millennial generation be blamed for the $17 trillion national debt, $222 trillion of unfunded un-payable social obligations promised by corrupt politicians, $1 trillion of annual deficits, undeclared wars being waged across the globe on behalf of the military industrial complex arms dealer mega-corporations, economic policies that have resulted in 48 million people dependent on food stamps, tax policies that enrich those who write the code, trade policies that benefit corporations who gutted the industrial base and shipped jobs overseas to slave labor factories, or monetary policies that have destroyed 96% of the dollar’s purchasing power? They had no say in the creation of our untenable welfare/warfare state.

There are no Millennials among the 535 corrupt bought off politicians slithering down the halls of Congress. There are no Millennials running the Too Big To Control Wall Street banks. There are no Millennials in charge of the mega-corporations that buy and sell our politicians. There are no Millennials at the upper echelon of the Military Industrial Complex or in the upper ranks of the U.S. Military. But, and this is a big but, they have done most of the dying in the Middle East over the last ten years in our multiple undeclared preemptive wars of aggression. They have died under the false pretenses of a War on Terror, when they are truly dying on behalf of the crony capitalists who profit from never ending war. They have been fighting and dying to protect “our oil” that happens to be under “their sand”. If the energy independence storyline was true, why is our military perpetually at war in the Middle East?

The Millennials will also be required to do the heavy lifting over the next fifteen years of this Fourth Turning Crisis. The Silent Generation is dying off rapidly. The Boomer generation has done some hard living and some hefty eating and with the oldest of their cohort hitting 70 years old, their supremacy will begin to diminish over the coming fifteen years. At 87 million strong, and millions yet to reach voting age, the Millennials will become more influential by the day regarding the future course of this nation. The question is what will be left of this country by the time they assume control. They are saddled with $1 trillion of student loan debt, peddled to them by the government and Wall Street with the false promise of good paying jobs and the opportunity for a better life than their parents lived. They have obediently followed the path laid out by their elders, but they have been badly misled. This American dream has been shattered upon an iceberg of debt, delusion, deception and denial. The unsinkable American empire’s hubris and arrogance are leading to its demise. The Millennials are coming of age during a Crisis that will reach momentous magnitudes over the next fifteen years, and they had nothing to do with creating the circumstances which will propel the chaos and anarchy that ensues. But, they will bear the brunt of the dreadful consequences.

Generational Bridge

“The Boomers’ old age will loom, exposing the thinness in private savings and the unsustainability of public promises. The 13ers will reach their make or break peak earning years, realizing at last that they can’t all be lucky exceptions to their stagnating average income. Millennials will come of age facing debts, tax burdens, and two tier wage structures that older generations will now declare intolerable.” – Strauss & Howe – The Fourth Turning

The kids on the stage at the 8th grade Spring concert were all around 14 years old. They are unaware they are in the midst of a twenty year period of Crisis. The boys are at that gawky looking stage with pimply faces and gawky limbs. The girls mature quicker than the boys at that age. These youngsters have barely begun their lives. I was amazed at their proficiency with a wide variety of musical instruments. They displayed poise and talent. The soloists exhibited composure well beyond their years. The performers were all musically endowed and proved that hard work and practice pays off. They were clearly enjoying themselves. They were all dressed in their Sunday best. I found myself enjoying the show despite my jaded attitude upon entering the auditorium. Even my son, wearing one of my ties, actually appeared to be singing during the choir performance. What I saw were hundreds of bright eyed Millennials with their hopes and dreams for a bright future intact. They have no idea what trials and tribulations await them.

I reached a milestone on the age chart last week that had me ruminating about yesteryear and contemplating the future. I reached the half century mark. Birthdays generally do not faze me, but the intersection of the 8th grade concert and my landmark birthday had me pondering my purpose for inhabiting this world. I’ve likely realized two-thirds of my life. The final third of my life will be spent trying to maneuver through the minefields of this Fourth Turning. I’m a father to three Millennial boys. I consider it my duty to defend and support them during this Crisis. Strauss & Howe wrote their book in 1997 and predicted a Great Devaluation in the financial markets around the time Millennials were entering their twenties. This Crisis began in September 2008 with the worldwide financial collapse created by Wall Street “Greed is Good” Boomers, as the oldest Millennials entered their twenties. It continues to worsen as more Millennials approach their twenties. We’ve reached a point in history when the elder generations need to sacrifice in order to insure younger generations have a chance at some form of the American dream.

I believe each generation has an obligation to future generations. We are bridge between preceding generations and future generations. We have a civic obligation to manage the resources of the country in a prudent manner. It’s our duty to leave the country in a financially viable condition so younger generations have an opportunity to live a better life than their parents. Every generation that preceded the Millennials has achieved the goal of having a better standard of living than their parents. I don’t believe my boys will enjoy a better life than I’ve lived. We’ve lived well beyond our means for decades. Government, Wall Street banks, corporations and individuals have run up a $56 trillion tab and are sticking the Millennials with the bill.

The $17 trillion national debt accumulated by elder generations to benefit themselves and $222 trillion of unfunded entitlements promised to themselves is nothing but generational theft. It’s immoral and possibly the most selfish act in human history. I’m ashamed that my generation and older generations have committed this criminal act of theft. Deficit spending today with no intention of repaying that debt is a tax on future generations. This egotistical abuse of power by the current and past regimes must be reversed voluntarily or it will be done by force. I’m 50 years old and will dedicating my remaining time on this earth fighting to create a sustainable future for my kids and their kids. The lucky among us get eighty years on this planet to make a difference. When did the definition of success become dying with the most toys and spending your life screwing your fellow man by accumulating obscene levels of wealth at their expense? If Boomers and Generation X have any sense of guilt about what they have done, they would be willingly offering to sacrifice their ill-gotten entitlements.

Not only are those currently in power not proposing to scale back their spending, debt accumulation, or entitlement transfers, but they have accelerated the pace of each in the last five years. An already unsustainable corrupted economic structure is being driven towards collapse by psychopathic central bankers and cowardly captured politicians. These are acts of treason against the youth of this country and larceny on a grand scale. It will lead to generational warfare and these crooks will pay for their transgressions. Strauss & Howe suspected in 1997 the elders might cling to their illicit profits acquired at the expense of the Millennials:

“When young adults encounter leaders who cling to the old regime (and who keep propping up senior benefit programs that will by then be busting the budget), they will not tune out, 13er – style. Instead, they will get busy working to defeat or overcome their adversaries. Their success will lead some older critics to perceive real danger in a rising generation perceived as capable but naïve.” – Strauss & Howe – The Fourth Turning

The elders who represent the status quo do perceive real danger in the rising Millennial generation. The initial skirmishes occurred in the midst of the Occupy protests. The young protestors initially focused on the true culprits in the crashing of the financial system and vaporizing of the net worth of millions – Wall Street bankers and their sugar daddy at the Federal Reserve. In a display of status quo bipartisanship you had liberal Democrat mayors in cities across the country call out their armed thugs to beat the millennial protestors into submission while being cheered on by Fox News and the neo-cons.

The existing status quo regime provides the illusion of choice, but both political parties are interchangeable in their desire to control our lives, flex our military might around the globe, indebt future generations and write laws to favor their corporate and banking masters. The establishment is showing contempt for the futures of our youth. Their solutions to the criminally created financial crisis have been to reward reckless debtors and bankers at the expense of future generations. Their doling out of hundreds of billions in student loan debt and artificial propping up of home prices has effectively made it impossible for millions of young people to get their lives started. Boomers have done such a poor job saving for their retirements they are unable to leave the workforce. Since January 2009, despite adding $400 billion of student loan debt, Millennials have a net loss in jobs, while the Boomers have taken 4 million jobs.

Strauss & Howe anticipated that older people would be anguished to see good kids suffer for the mistakes they had made. They thought the elders couldn’t possibly be shallow enough, selfish enough, or immoral enough to deny the Millennial generation a chance at the American Dream. They were wrong. The old regime has no plans to step aside or sacrifice on behalf of younger generations. The implications of this resistance will be dire.   

“The youthful hunger for social discipline and centralized authority could lead Millennial youth brigades to lend mass to dangerous demagogues. The risk of class warfare will be especially grave if the 20% of Millennials who were poor as children (50% in inner cities) come of age seeing their peer-bonded paths to generational progress blocked by elder inertia.” – Strauss & Howe – The Fourth Turning

The social mood in this country continues to deteriorate as the sociopathic financial elite accelerate their pillaging of the working middle class, steal money from senior citizens through zero interest rate inflationary policies, and enslave our youth in the chains of crushing debt and promise of dead end jobs. When the next leg down in this ongoing depression strikes like an F5 tornado, the simmering anger in this country will explode in a chaotic frenzy of violence and retribution. The chances of class and generational warfare have increased exponentially due to the actions of the elderly regime over the last five years.

Generational Sacrifice

You got your whole life ahead of you, but for me, I finish things.” – Walt Kowalski – Gran Torino   

  

A couple days after the Spring concert I was flipping through the 650 channels on my TV with nothing worth watching when I stumbled across the 2008 Clint Eastwood movie Gran Torino. This was the third episode within the week that had me thinking about the future of my kids. It was his highest grossing film in history. Eastwood played a bigoted tough guy Korean War veteran whose Detroit suburban neighborhood had deteriorated into a dangerous gang infested Asian war zone. The movie did not follow the standard Eastwood plot where he kills dozens of bad guys. He grudgingly befriends two young Millennial teenage Laos refugees who live next door. He had lost his wife of 50 years. He was in his 70s and dying from some undiagnosed illness. I viewed the movie as an allegory for the generational sacrifice that should be taking place now.

Eastwood’s character, Walt Kowlaski, decided to finish things his way. He realized the two Millennials would never find peace or have a chance at a better life until the criminal gang running the show in the neighborhood were confronted and defeated. He knew he was too old to kill six gang members singlehandedly, so he made a choice to sacrifice himself and be gunned down in cold blood in front of multiple witnesses so the perpetrators would go to jail and allow his Millennial companions to have a chance at a better life. He sacrificed his life for the good of young people who weren’t even related to him.  This message has not connected with the elder generations who control the purse strings and political system in this country. The media propaganda machine supporting the existing regime continues to peddle a storyline that debt doesn’t matter, consumption is good, saving is for suckers, and passing the bill for unfunded entitlements to future generations is not immoral and cowardly. Walt Kowalski displayed courage, bravery, and valor that is sorely lacking in the elderly generations today.

At the age of 50 I have a choice with my remaining 20 or 30 years. I can choose to keep accumulating material goods with debt, voting for politicians who promise never to cut my entitlements, believing deficits growing to infinity are beneficial to the economic health of the nation, supporting the military industrial complex as they wage undeclared wars across the world, applauding the Orwellian fascist surveillance measures instituted to give the illusion of safety while sacrificing freedoms and liberties and selfishly looking out for my best interests. Or I can stand up to the corporate fascist old boy regime and lure them into a violent response that will ultimately lead to their downfall. I’m willing to sacrifice what is supposedly “owed” to me on behalf of my kids and all Millennials. They don’t deserve to start life in a $200 trillion hole created by their parents and grandparents. It is disconcerting to me that more Boomer and Generation X parents are unprepared, unwilling or too willfully ignorant to forfeit entitlements awarded them under false pretenses in order to preserve a decent standard of living for their children and grandchildren. The Bernaysian propaganda programmed into their brains over decades by the sociopathic central planning status quo has created this inertia.

The inertia will be replaced by frenzied activity when this unsustainable system ultimately fails. Time seems to be standing still. People have been lulled into a false sense of security even though history is about to fling us into a chaotic transformational period in history. How do I know this is going to happen? Because it happens every eighty years like clockwork. The best laid plans of the men running the show will be swept away in a whirl of pandemonium, violence, war and reckoning for sins committed against humanity. There will be no escape.

“Don’t think you can escape the Fourth Turning the way you might today distance yourself from news, national politics, or even taxes you don’t feel like paying. History warns that a Crisis will reshape the basic social and economic environment that you now take for granted. The Fourth Turning necessitates the death and rebirth of the social order. It is the ultimate rite of passage for an entire people, requiring a luminal state of sheer chaos whose nature and duration no one can predict in advance. The risk of catastrophe will be very high. The nation could erupt into insurrection or civil violence, crack up geographically, or succumb to authoritarian rule. If there is a war, it is likely to be one of maximum risk and effort – in other words, a total war. Every Fourth Turning has registered an upward ratchet in the technology of destruction, and in mankind’s willingness to use it.” – Strauss & Howe – The Fourth Turning

Our country has entered a period of Crisis. We may or may not successfully navigate our way through the visible icebergs and more dangerous icebergs just below the surface. The similarities between the course of our country and the maiden voyage of the Titanic are eerily allegorical.

The owners of the ship (Wall Street, Washington politicians, crony capitalists) are arrogant and reckless. They declare the ship unsinkable, while only providing half the lifeboats needed to save all the passengers in case of disaster in order to maximize their profits. The captain (Ben Bernanke) has been tendered the greatest cruise liner (United States) in history. The initial voyage across the Atlantic Ocean has drawn the financial elite ruling class (financers & bankers) onboard, occupying the luxurious state rooms on the upper decks. But, the lower decks are filled with young poor peasants (Millennials) who are sneered at and ridiculed by those in the upper decks. A maiden voyage should always be approached cautiously. A prudent captain would not take undue risks.

Our captain (Ben Bernanke) wants to make his mark on history. He considers himself an expert in navigating dangerous waters (Great Depression) because he studied dangerous waters at his Ivy League school. It doesn’t matter that he never actually captained a ship in the real world.  He declares full steam ahead (reducing interest rates to 0% and throwing vast amounts of fiat currency into the engine room boilers). Midway through the voyage, the captain is handed a telegram warning of icebergs (potential financial catastrophe) ahead. If he slows down the vessel, he will not set the speed record and receive the accolades of an adoring public. He ignores the warning and steams on to his rendezvous (eternal disgrace) with destiny.

In the middle of the night, the lookouts (Ron Paul, John Hussman, Zero Hedge) cry iceberg!! But, it is too late. The great ship (United States) has struck an enormous iceberg (debt & currency crisis). At first, it seems like everything will be OK. The captain and crew assure the passengers that everything is under control and their evasive action has saved the ship. But below the waterline, the great ship (United States) is taking on water (toxic levels of debt, un-payable entitlement promises, trillion dollar deficits, political & financial corruption). The engine room (Federal Reserve) works frantically to alleviate the damage (QE to infinity). The captain is sure the compartmentalization of the ship will save it. One of the designers of the ship (David Stockman) sadly declares that the ship will surely sink. The captain orders the band (CNBC, Fox, MSNBC, CNN) on deck to distract the passengers from their impending fate with soothing music. The owners of the ship (Wall Street, Washington politicians, crony capitalists) aren’t worried. They collected their fees upfront and over-insured the vessel. They anticipate a windfall when the ship sinks. It worked last time.

To avoid mass panic, the crew (government apparatchiks) has locked the youthful poor peasants (Millennials) below deck. The captain and his crew are content to let them go down with the ship. They’ve decided the women, children, and senior citizens (Middle Class) can also be sacrificed. The financial elite ruling class (financers and bankers) are piling into the boats with the ship’s jewels, escaping the fate of the peasants. The captain (Ben Bernanke) has no intention of going down with the ship. In a cowardly act, he leaps onto the 1st lifeboat to be launched. We are on a voyage of the damned. The great cruise liner (United States) has a fatal wound and is headed for a watery grave. Are we going to let the owners, captain and crew dictate who will be saved in the few lifeboats or will we rise up and throw these guilty parties overboard?

 

It comes down to the abuse of power by a few evil men and their henchmen as they have centralized their control over our financial, political, economic and social institutions. The existing social order is an ancient, rotting, fetid swamp of parasites that will be drained during this Fourth Turning. The Millennials are rising and will be the spearhead of the coming revolution. As each day passes they will become a more powerful force and the power of the existing regime will wane. Meanwhile, the band will play on as the ship of state descends into the abyss.

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The Resident Sophist
The Resident Sophist

Admin: There exists no other advice for the kids but to band together and take the helm of state.

It goes against my nature, yet there exists no other option. I cannot offer any better counsel but to take control of the legal process while the current generation that exerts its undue influence perishes.

Fuck privatization, though the trend is dominant to the tune of billions. For what? Are the resources being properly allocated? Where is the price-discovery?

It’s a total joke unless…

Not unless total war is at hand.

Is that really IT? The end-game? God help us. That’s what the trend-line is screaming for.

For what!!!?????

Do trend-lines determine utter death and destruction? Should it not be the other way around?

Pray not for war. I hate hippies but by God I hate violence all the more, Violence sucks. It’s, as we say ’round here, HELLSA DUMB.

Like a shiner in a white-trash bar: The mark of a dumbass. Nobody tolerates a dumbass for long. They kind of get taken care of.

Is that the fate of people who give a shit?…. or those that don’t?

Why in the hell should anyone keep giving a shit for dumbasses? I can’t tell anyone to do so with a straight face…. So I don’t.

And dumbasses tend to hate America with a high correlation. Almost as much as I love America.

Almost.

Hence my disdain for the “I hate America” club.

I hate that club with a passion. So do the best and brightest of the world. We have it so good, the argument otherwise is a joke….. and that’s a fact.

The Resident Sophist
The Resident Sophist

So tell me, wise-asses:
Are resources being properly allocated with efficient price discovery?

Were they under they under the George W. Bush administration?

Or are you expressing a simpleton ex-post-facto ante?

My bet is on the latter.

Holy fuckin Jesus my bet is a winner.

False-FLAGGOTS

The Resident Sophist
The Resident Sophist

No sympathy for taxation: Enmity for foreign evasion.

Expect no less.

There are MILLIONS upon BILLIONS(?) of people dying (FACT) to get a shot at an education in the United States (FACT) and a handful of so-called marketeers want to ditch out on the United States?!

Who in their right minds would bet against such an obvious expected-value but a quivering school-child? Seriously contemplate the notion and contemplate the strategy….

FALSE FLAGGOTRY. Numbskullery. Get-whats-comin’-errry.

NADA SYMPATHY

SUCK MY BALLSERY

The Resident Sophist
The Resident Sophist

In fact:

Lay some red, white and blue testes on your forehead while you mumble “ax-aven” (tax haven), “ax-aven” to a big lunch of 100% corn-fed single-celled soldiers coating your insignificant tonsils while the rest of the world rushes to take your insignificant, false-flaggot ass, place in the scheme of things.

Spoiled-brat handout monkies.

chemtrailrider
chemtrailrider

The problem is very simple. The wrong people are having babies. If you can’t afford to raise a kid -don’t fucking have one. Problem solved. All the statistics will start trending in the right direction immediately. Less food stamps, less welfare, less unemployment, less crime, etc., etc…
If you accept free government housing, food, healthcare, etc, you must be on some form of verifiable birth control and if you have an accident and create another ward of the state? Fine we’ll give you that one along with a procedure to make sure it doesnt happen again.

Oh, and you also can’t vote in elections while receiving public assistance. You must earn the right to decide how money confiscated from hard working taxpayers is spent!

Randy

As a parent it is my responsibility to teach my children to see beyond the wool that is being pulled over our collective eyes, and make them think for themselves.

The next generation may be able to be called the greatest generation if they stand on a strong foundation against the tyranny.

Novista

Isn’t it funny that Millennials talk of the current environment they face, and they are criticized for whining. But when boomers describe their life experience, they are just telling it like it was.

MuckAbout

Hey! Who’s this “Calamity” baby with the overeducated brain and little common sense?

There’s something there that’s whistles off-key..

Sorry I’ve been off-line too long but I’m cycling through a chemo series and that puts me in the dumper
for about one week out of 3…

But old Muck is still still watching you monkeys do try not to so anything too stupid until I catch up.

MA

Novista

MuckAbout

I know what you’re talking about, from observation — twice, both wives. Hang in there.

Do you ever think back to when you were 20-something?

Chessman
Chessman

Admin,
You are right about generational civil war, and Flash is right about racial civil war. As Tevia, in Fiddler on the Roof, said, “You’re both right”. It isn’t going to be caucasian sons and daughters fighting against their parents (although those commenting show that they can sure argue and blame each other), its going to be hispanic young people against white old people. Look at California’s demographics. Let’s look at the big picture. Too many people insist on personalizing the analsis and bringing there own personal, piss-ant, life into the argument, as though their personal situation and experience makes a difference in the macro-analysis. Also, if there is a global economic collapse that causes food shortages, there will be a mass border crossing from the south and they will be looking for food, and the young strong will take it from the weak old.
Just saying,
Chessman

Anonymous
Anonymous

MuckAbout says:

Hey! Who’s this “Calamity” baby with the overeducated brain and little common sense?

There’s something there that’s whistles off-key..

It’s the wind blowing in one ear and out the other! Makes a faint whistling sound!

howard in nyc

My dad was a musician until after he served in Europe in WW2 (Patton’s Army post D-Day), when he came home, went to college and got a job. He steadfastly refused to go to my middle-school orchestra performances. They hurt his ears, he protested.

The baseball he could much more readily tolerate. Being no fool, the house he and my mom picked were across the street from the high school and youth ball fields. He rarely missed an inning for a 6pm game time, only if traffic was particularly heavy.

He too had no love for 8-year-olds trying to throw strikes. First thing he did as Little League president–bought pitching machines for the lowest level league, 8 and 9 year olds (I was 13 at the time, moved on to the next level). The pace of games and the development of hitting and fielding skills immediately improved drastically. The feared lack of development of pitching in the town never materialized (turns out nothing is lost if you don’t start pitching until age 10).

Amazing to me this simple step was not widely adopted then, or since. Plus, I soon mastered repairing those suckers, even though they rarely broke down.

The Resident Sophist
The Resident Sophist

Howard: Drop me an Email

chemtrailrider
chemtrailrider

time to start teaching the kids some potentially useful sports/skills. I played baseball as a youngster and it was the only time in my life that I have actually been bored. I had a couple of my kids try it thinking maybe it was better than my memories, painful.. Took my youngest to Louisville KY the week after the Derby for the National Archery in Schools Program tournament. Good fun, 10k + participants, talk about a potentially useful skill, they claim more kids now involved in school archery than Little League! Things have changed. Think all shooting sports, wrestling, track and field, paintball, basically prepare them for the Hunger Games and pray they never come.
Admin, welcome to the 50+ club, the club none of us want to be a part of. Yes you are likely well past the halfway mark, and from a physical perspective your best days are behind you. Pick up a bow (genesis) with a target, turn your kids on to it they will love it-even older kids. This is an activity you can do with your kids for fun and maybe later for necessity. Baseball is just like America, unfortunately best days behind them.

Floribunda Rose
Floribunda Rose

I was in Walgreens Friday where I saw Time’s latest cover Me, Me, Me, Generation — Millennials are lazy, entitled narcissists who still live with their parents–Why they’ll save us all
I didn’t buy it, but I started investigating any buzz. What I thought was interesting was all of the controversy I started learning about the article by Joel Stein – @thejoelstein via twitter. Some Millennials have been insulted and the cover has been parodied a few times.

But I ♥ this honest review by Millennial, Adam J. Manley. It’s his tumblr post with his youtube video: http://adamthealien.tumblr.com/post/51163518414/thatzak-remember-last-week-when-time-magazine Check out his video – it’s worth a listen!

sensetti
sensetti

Thanks Rose

Novista

Floribunda Rose

Hmmm, what’s your secret for the text effects?

Floribunda Rose
Floribunda Rose

@sensetti – You’re welcome!
@Novista – You can use simple html in the comments to bold, italicize, and add a ♥.

Here is a pretty good link to explain Simple HTML for Formatting Blogger Comments

A link for special characters

♥ ♠ ♣ ♦ (This is an experiment, did it work?)

Sometimes it works and you can really add some flair to your comments! Thanks for asking!

Novista

Floribunda Rose

Thank you for the clues and links. I do know enough HTML to be dangerous 🙂 and could have swore I had tried it here. Let’s see what happens … with WP, you never know …

The bold and the fearful

Novista

Floribunda Rose ♥

Yes! I wonder how many other tags work …

eugend66
eugend66

Let`s try the underline tag …..
Underline

eugend66
eugend66

Not working. WPES!

napari
napari

another rembrandt from admin….how long before you blow through the glass ceiling and attain the skill level others only can dream of?
Wait…your already there! 🙂

Novista

eugend66

What about this one?

(strike) or not …

Willy2
Willy2

There’s a disparity in the demographics of the US. The amount of US citizens that every year the age of 65 was up to say 2000 – more or less – flat. Since the year 2000 the amount of people that become 65 started to increase every year. This trend will continue to to about 2016. Only then the amount of people that become 65 will gradually start to decrease.

At the same time birthrates have gradually been dropping since about 1980. So, a decreasing amount of people will have to pay a increasing amount of people that expect to be paid e.g. benefits and Social Security.

The math simply doesn’t work. The boomers can grant themselves all the benefits they want. And it’s precisely the boomers who find out that there isn’t enough money/tax revenues to pay the boomers their benefits.

Dr. Ellen
Dr. Ellen

I turned 67 in Jan 2013 so I am a much-maligned ‘Boomer’.’ I am also educated and well-traveled, and a student of the U.S. Constitution and our Republic form of government. It is naive to blame my generation for our current state of affairs, as I can go back through many U.S. Presidencies and find
untold examples of White House and Congressional stupidity on both sides of the aisle. Trust me, legions of historians have literally rewritten our history, filling it will blatant biases and often downright lies and sordid ommissions. Kids have grown up for generations now with distorted facts about who did what to whom…and, as I see it from my own research, the crooks in gov’t and politics were equally bad (in the late 1800’s) as they are today. Americans just don’t pay attention — this is a stark societal truth — it is no wonder the self-serving elites, including members of the Supreme Court, get their way.
The rule of law hardly matters any more. Hopefully the Millenials will have more success than my educated cohorts at vastly REDUCING the size and scope of the fed gov’t, and returning sovereignty
to the States. Wake up, everyone. A boomer problem it is not.

Mick
Mick

Of course admin fails to acknowledge that it was the “Millennials” who got the Usurper “elected.” The “Millennials” ushered in the destroyer of the Republic! DUH!!!

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