Move Over, Millennials: GEN X Is The Generation In The Most Financial Trouble

Authored by Daisy Luther via The Organic Prepper blog,

Everyone picks on Millennials these days but a new study by Lending Tree shows that out of all the generations, Gen X is the one dealing with the deepest financial problems.

First, some definitions.

  • Gen Z or Centennials: Born 1996 – current day
  • Millennials: Born 1977 – 1995.
  • Gen X: Born 1965 – 1976.
  • Baby Boomers: Born 1946 – 1964.
  • The Silent Generation: Born 1945 or before

We all know that two major financial mistakes are getting into debt and failing to have an emergency fund. A recent study looked into the debt levels of each generation.

The study

Lending Tree, an online lending marketplace, did a study on the 3-year changes in each generation’s debt.

As each generation moves into different stages of their personal and economic lives, the amounts and types of debt they carry shifts, too. We compared the debts of members of the four adult generations — millennials, Gen Xers, baby boomers and silents — between March 2016 and March 2019 to see what’s changed.

Specifically, we calculated the changes in the average balance of each major debt category — personal loans, credit cards, auto loans, student loans and mortgages — and the change in the percentage of each generation that carries each type of debt. (source)

Here were the key findings:

  • Millennials saw the greatest spike in overall debt. Their total balances rose by an average of $16,714 — almost 29% — between 2016 and 2019.
  • Gen Xers now have the highest average debt burden of any generation. They increased their average debt burdens by about 10%, or $11,898, between 2016 and 2019, thanks to steady dollar increases across all debt categories.
  • Older generations — boomers and silents — are winding down their debt, thanks to decreases in average mortgage balances. However, they’ve increased their average debt across all other categories.
  • Boomers decreased their debt burdens by 7%, or $10,424. Members of the silent generation dropped their overall debt by $9,486, or 8%. (source)

But what about Gen X? Why are they in so much trouble?

Gen X has financial problems in many ways.

Marketwatch did an analysis on that the ways that Gen X is financially wrecked and it’s not pretty. This is my generation so I was especially interested in their analysis.

They’ve got the most credit card debt of anyone – yet still spend more than anyone on non-essentials…

Despite their sky high credit card debt, Gen X spends big on non-essentials, according to data released in 2018 from finance site Bankrate.com. Indeed, “Gen Xers (ages 38-53) spend $3,473 annually on restaurant food, prepared beverages and lottery tickets, the most of any generation,” the report reveals.

They’re woefully under-saved for retirement… Median retirement savings for Gen X is only $35,000, the same median amount as millennials, despite Gen Xers being much closer to retirement,” according to a study of 3,000 Americans by Allianz Life. Having just $35,000 in retirement savings — especially when you’re a Gen Xer ages 37- 51 — is not even close to enough. Fidelity recommends that by age 40 you have three times your salary saved for retirement. Gen Xers may be so under-saved thanks to the competing financial demands of children… and caring for aging parents.

Their average debt now tops $150,000. Not only is their credit card debt high, the total amount of debt they have is. Those in the 35-44 age group have “the highest debt levels of any age bracket,” SmartAsset notes, citing Federal Reserve data. 

They’re more likely than other generations to say they can’t meet their financial goals. All of this debt and the lack of savings may explain why fewer than 1 in 3 members of Gen X says they think they can reach their long-term financial goals, according to a survey released in 2017 by FICO.  (source)

That’s not a pretty picture for people between the ages of 37 and 51.

Some of the reasons for this financial mess

Reading over the data, the thing that jumps out at me is that people of my generation are at the point where they’re taking care of everyone. Some still have kids at home, while others have adult kids who have returned home.  We are often lending a helping hand to our adult children who are in college or trying to get their feet on the ground. Some of this generation are taking care of aging parents.

It’s pretty tough to save for retirement when you have all these people depending on you.

Regarding the credit card debt, that one is kind of a mystery to me. While I have used credit cards to fund medical care I couldn’t fully pay for with my emergency fund, I rarely use them otherwise. It seems to me that it is essential to get this high-interest debt under control immediately. (If this is a problem for you, check out this article about paying down debt fast.

Spending on non-essentials seems to be a problem too. A lot of folks think that being on a budget means you can never have any fun, you can’t travel, you can’t go out to eat. So instead of creating a budget, they throw caution to the wind, spend while they have money, and complain when they don’t. I’d never say that you cannot travel, dine out, or do fun things. I do all of these and on a fairly tight budget. But I work it into my budget, I fund it with cash, and this comes after savings and all my other bills.

The biggest concern I see is that the money we Gen X-ers are paying into social security right now is going to fund the retirements of the Baby Boomers. The social security system is at a near-breaking point right now and most folks believe it may not even be there by the time we get to retirement age, much less for millennials. All that money that has been taking from our paychecks our entire working life…and none left when we need it. And if you think times are tight now, just wait until you’re too old to work and there’s no social security.

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BB
BB

The Debt I hate the most is being in debt to the IRS. I never get out of this debt. We own nothing.The government can take anything and everything you own . Houses ,cars , trucks , your business,your bank account. We own nothing but what you can carry on your back.

KaD
KaD

That and property taxes, so you can never own your home free and clear. Which should be illegal as it is essentially perpetual indebtedness ei: slavery.

Lager
Lager

Great point, KaD.
One good idea that would bring some sorely needed relief would be to eliminate or drastically discount property taxes on retirees for their primary residence only.
Especially if they are free and clear on the mortgage obligation for that residence.
By my logic, they’ve paid their dues, and are on fixed incomes, many struggling to make ends meet.
With rising inflation, the cost of everything is increasing, while incomes stagnate, except for the Rich and Shameless.
2nd residences and business properties shouldn’t be eligible. Especially rental properties.

Alternatively, abolish income taxes for retirees w annual income thresholds of, say 50k or less.
Then use a graduated scale for <50k, with tiers.
But, that's a tax-the-rich scheme, akin to socialist demands for freebies to the FSA.
How about a flat tax, or consumption tax only, in lieu of income tax?
Consumerism got us into this mess, and it is waning because the monetary system is broken.
Witness the death spiral of retail bricks and mortar stores.
Small Mom & Pop businesses can't compete.
A bad trend, for communities at the local level.
Bump up the costs of online purchases.
Make the Bezos's of the Corporatocracy start ponying up more of their revenue to appease the local municipalities greedy demands.
This taxing of everybody for the 'common good' just disincentivises people from working and contributing.
The leeches are bleeding the hosts dry.
EVERYBODY wants more of our money. Via legalized plunder.
Discouraging, for those who have already paid their dues.
IMHO, that is.

Salvinia
Salvinia

If I may, property taxes are continually tracked to “education” funding. What about eliminating government schools, thereby eliminating the need for taxes on real property – at least that primary residence. As most of what actually passes for education is really just a transfer to public union members without verifiable results or accountability, and the internet makes knowledge available to all, as well as a local public library, who needs schools? Who needs over-compensated “teachers” who are not SMEs?

I vehemently oppose any special status for “senior citizens” (poor dears!) as they, more than any other demographic have more income, assets than any other group while receiving more public subsidies and wealth transfers from younger Americans. Skin in the game by all, or equal pain shared by all is the only impetus for action at the voting booth, in the city council meetings or other bodies which set rates.

BL
BL

My Gen X children work hard and live well, make a lot of money and don’t live above their means. THAT is key for any generation, don’t try to live above your means. If you are over extended Gen Xers, it’s your fault….just say no to those granite counter tops if you don’t have the money.

Anonymous
Anonymous

Preach BL!!!

Anonymous
Anonymous

What about the fact that many GenXers’ jobs were outsourced thru Free Trade Giveaways or foreigners imported to take the jobs that were doing? It is the Silent Generation and the Boomers who created the world for GenX. Fuck ’em – take their Social Security, Medicare, discriminatory “tax exemptions” and redistribute them!

Coalclinker
Coalclinker

I can certainly understand why Gen X people are going deeper into debt. That happens when you insist on buying $75,000 4-door pickup trucks with 4 foot beds, AND $40,000 4 cylinder Gook shitbox cars, and taking 7 years to pay them off.

Anonymous
Anonymous

Amen!!! Don’t forget going out to eat everyday and dropping $12 a meal plus spending $1,000 on the latest I-Phone plus buying $25,000 Harleys plus buying $35,000 Bass boats plus buying the latest big screen TV, etc. And they wonder why they can’t save any money up for retirement!!!!!! SMH!!! Please watch the Dave Ramsey Rant “Think America” on YouTube. Your welcome.

MSyzlak
MSyzlak

OT rant inspired by your statement: “you insist on buying $75,000 4-door pickup trucks with 4 foot beds”

I call them “cuck-trucks”.

Bought primarily by hen-pecked husbands with 2+ kids who think it will grant them some sort of “rugged masculinity”; when really they’d be better off with an SUV or Minivan. Always F150/1500. Always (as you say) the full crew-cab 4-door, and a bed so short as to be pointless (and that’s mostly for groceries and other shopping haul). Always 4×4 that’s never used, and making an AWD vehicle more than sufficient while wasting $5k -$10k. Always in pristine condition — especially the hitch if there is one. Often (for Ford) a “Lariat” or “King Ranch”, making it more a luxury vehicle than a useful truck.
Don’t get me wrong, this doesn’t apply to everyone who’s got a 150/1500; but there’s a recent plague of middle to upper-middle class family men who buy these things basically to commute to their office jobs and cart their 2+ kids and golden retrievers to soccer practice and doggy daycare. There’ve always been vehicles associated with the “statement” the owner wants to make. This is just a fairly recent and annoying trend with these particular trucks and their owners.

Coalclinker
Coalclinker

You have that one nailed! The wannabes who buy these cuck trucks as you call them have ruined it for us people who really need a real truck. You know, a regular cab truck with a 6 foot or 8 foot bed, 4 speed manual transmission, rubber floor covering, and very little electrical options with the exception of an air conditioner and cruise control. These just don’t exist anymore.

MSyzlak
MSyzlak

Yeah, but it doesn’t exist for any other (non-truck) vehicles either.

It seems to me that it’s actually two overlapping problems/trends. One that affects all vehicles, and an overlapping issue with the devolution of work trucks into pseudo-hipster affluence-statements or even sadder pseudo-masculinity statements.

The first has to do with transmissions and electronics (affecting all vehicles), and the second is primarily the truck configuration (bed & cab size), and they overlap with the current trendiness of the “cuck-truck”.

So if you want a regular cab, full or extended bed, truck; then you end up paying more than you otherwise would because they want to push the “luxury truck”, they primarily manufacture the “luxury truck”, and they (artifically) raise the price of the non-“luxury-truck”, to nudge you into an “upgrade” into a “luxury-truck”.

Practically the only way to get a “bare-bones” new work truck is to buy one with more than 350hp, which basically no private person needs or is generally willing to pay for.

They’re also constantly obsoleting/eliminating production of parts to repair older vehicles, to ensure that buying older model used vehicles isn’t a practical or economical alternative.

A tight oligopoly is effectively no different than outright monopoly. It never exists long-term without government sanction, collaboration, and participation; and it is the antithesis of the “free-market”. This is why you can now rarely buy what you wish, but only what monopolists want to sell you — whether cars, trucks, phones, computers, software, dishwashers, lawnmowers, etc, etc, ad infinitum.

javelin
javelin

I’m a gen x’er at 51 I’m in the older third. The credit card thing is unforgivable, but that is not the biggest issue. He does nail it ( however briefly), with the following statement………. “Reading over the data, the thing that jumps out at me is that people of my generation are at the point where they’re taking care of everyone.”

Not only are Gen X’rs taking care of that 30% of college grads who return home, they assisted in paying those college tuitions which have tripled in the past 15 years. Many simply have those 30+ year old basement dwellers who never found their niche ( think MGTOW losers and feminazis who are the future spinsters and cat ladies.)
On top of that, ( and this one is personally true) I have had to move my mom into my home since her dementia has progressed. With no funds due to her repeated “home equity” loans and SSI mindset, she can’t afford an assisted living facility and I won’t institutionalize her in a nursing home’s locked down unit.
My mother-in-law’s health plummeted in the past 18 months and she barely qualified physically for an ALF. With just her SSI/Medicare and a small supplemental policy, she falls $1800 a month short of the costs. My wife and her sister split that cost to keep her well cared for in a quality ALF.
Many Gen X’rs also are raising their grandchildren. Although not a new phenomenon, 2017 stats show 7.1 million kids being raised in the home of a Gen x’r grandparent. Even if the adult child/parent is also there assisting ( most likely a single mom), the grandparent covers a lot of the added expenses from 2 extra people living there.

* Two last notes on a personal level– both my mom and my wife’s mom were doing much better financially but just happened to be at the point of retirement when the 2008 financial SHTF. I can only speak for my mom but her 401k was literally wiped out and she did not get to ride the wave back up since she had retired. Also her house value dropped over $100,000 just as she was needing to sell because the doctor said she was not safe to live alone ( think heating up pizza on a paper plate in the toaster oven.)
**My wife and I also pay for private Montessori school for our granddaughter. I know this is an added expense by choice, but we both felt the investment into a true education and away from public school was necessary and worth our extra labor– add $900 to our monthly budget.
I could go on but the point is, things are not as cut and dried as “Gen x’rs blow $3200 a year on starbucks and eating out”. My wife and I are in the upper middle middle class and without millenial adult children, multiple boomer parents care expenses and Gen Z grandkids to pay for, we’d be doing VERY well, even with the luxury of a few dinners out.

Anonymous
Anonymous

I here you brother Javelin ! In the 80’s had to restart after the steel industry collapse . At 29 I was a third of my way to a 30 year retirement with defined benefits then poof gone ! Then delayed having one child for 10 years but we built an investment program to play catch up ! Then while paying out for private school and tending to elders needs between parents & grandparents then 5 years of college and me hit with catastrophic illness got thru that we would be much further along but still modestly successful but the “THEY” better let up on us now ! Cannot take another hit and not respond with shock & awe !

BL
BL

Javelin- When I was in my forties I was where you are now. Paying the kids tuition at college , caring for aging parents and doing without myself. You are not the first to experience this and you won’t be the last. We just did what needed to be done for the FAMILY. Families are important enough to sacrifice your time and money, I don’t regret a penny of it.

Anonymous
Anonymous

Sorry javelin, but MGTOW’s are not losers. Perhaps your wife’s Female Shaming Language has rubbed off on you. Really sad. We are smart unlike you who made the mistake of getting married.

MSyzlak
MSyzlak

“Not only are Gen X’rs taking care of that 30% of college grads who return home, they assisted in paying those college tuitions which have tripled in the past 15 years.”

Not directed at you personally, Javelin, but:
And who insisted that those kids go to college? Who, as the PARENT, failed to realize that the ROI for an undergraduate degree has been declining exponentially for the past 40 yrs? — and then blames the 17 yr old for not knowing this. Who, as the PARENT, expects a 17 yr old that they’ve coddled to have a realistic grasp of the impact of the debt that they’ve been expected and pushed to take on? Who, as a PARENT (without researching it themselves), expects their 17 yr old to know what they can reasonably expect to make out of college and what sort of lifestyle that will require in order to make good on the debts that that self-same “parent” saddled them with — it’s not like someone (even FedGov) is going to loan $100k or more to a punk kid with nothing to his name, no collateral, no credit, and no job on the dubious prospect of success after college.

I’m Gen-X. Almost 50. I got myself in debt trouble when I was old enough to know better. In part, because of this I do not have children (which everyone should be grateful for).

Parents who ignorantly … STUPIDLY … push their own sheltered kids into debt-slavery shouldn’t be shocked when their 22 yr old child has to move back in. And they should expect (and they DESERVE) to have said child default and stick them with the entire debt that they STUPIDLY co-signed for.

Gen-X (and some Boomer) PARENTS who think the world they experienced 30 years ago is the same as today and saddle their own kids with unrepayable loans for unprofitable degrees because “hey, it worked for me 30 years ago”, are to blame.

And on top of it all, they let a stupid kid pick his own major (English Lit; Gender Studies; etc) in that unaffordable school.

Let the parents reap what they’ve sown, and stop blaming children (even 20 or 30-something children) for the piss-poor parenting, unreasonable expectations, total lack of sane advice, and burdensome debt inflicted upon them by ignorant and stupid Gen-X “parents”.

When this debt goes unpaid and helps collapse the economy, those parents are responsible — just as they’ve been responsible for the taking of other people’s money (via property taxes) to not only educate/brainwash their kids, but to raise them in public schools because both “parents” work and neither has the time to raise their own kids themselves.

Does no one even realize that both parents working was not the world of 40+ years ago. Things changed. Recently, both parents must work, whereas previously they didn’t. One breadwinner doesn’t cut it for the “lifestyle” they (Gen-Xers) expect. Do they think that even two breadwinners will cut it in the near future? It won’t.

In short, if your 25 to 30 year old son or daughter has to live with you … YOU fucked up.

And if you’re an outsider looking with scorn at the basement-dwelling millenials, I suggest you shift your gaze to those truly responsible for that situation — their alleged “parents”.

Anonymous
Anonymous

All financial woes of all the generations listed can be blamed on a short list of reasons .
1) a lack of responsible financial management by saving and delaying gratification .
My wife and I did without cable tv new cars eating out etc for many years
2) shitty employment situations , unless you have at least one in the typical husband wife couple with a government job health benefits and retirement costs are priced out of reach compared to wages offered . $15 bucks per hour , must have transportation
3) government supporting socialist policies for the selected few , government employees , corporate welfare that literally breaks the bank
The socialist financial policies for the circle jerk of Wall Street to K-Street to Capitol Street have destroyed the nations economic industrial tax base and crushed real opportunities for average Americans . Thanks to the ridiculous debt policies and the flood of illegals (30 million a realistic estimate) depressing wages and welfare costs $160 billion at best guess each year .
This has over seen the greatest transfer of wealth from middle Americans to a wealthy oligarchy of the top 1% that control all the economic strings including government representatives all minions controlled by those in control of the money and the value there off !
END THE FED !

KaD
KaD

The employment situation is a big one. I’m making less than half of what I did before 2009 in spite of spending thousands to go back to school. And our shitbag representative seem hellbent on further driving down living wages by importing hordes of turd worlders and letting companies offshore as much as possible.

BL
BL

KaD- Most everyone has had their income cut by half, that is not just a Gen X problem by any means. We are all getting screwed with our pants on no matter what our birth date.

salvinia
salvinia

Sorry to disagree and this is purely anecdotal, but I look around my neighborhood and see a bunch of spoiled-rotten, selfish SENIORs who brag about the numbers of cruises they take (winner was a couple who have taken 300 of them) with $10K/month pensions from jobs as public union members/public employees? Where did that money come from, pray tell.

Mary Christine

The timelines are too short for GenX and Millennials.

Generational Timeline from the 4th turning website.

Homeland 2005-Present
Millennial 1982-2004
Generation X 1961-1981
Boom 1943-1960
Silent 1925-1942
G.I. 1901-1924

https://www.fourthturning.com/

https://www.lifecourse.com/about/method/phases.html

smith
smith

2005-presenet – they are not homeland, they are Gen z. Homeland is so Nazi, I really hate that George W had to use those bs terms for everything – Patriot Act, Homeland Security, etc. The government really must brainwash everyone into thinking the government is great and will protect us while they steal our freedoms and liberties. As a libertarian, I’m strongly opposed to any propaganda.

MrLiberty
MrLiberty

I wonder if the label is in reference to their having been born under the tyranny of the “Department of Homeland Security?”

MrLiberty
MrLiberty

I will absolutely agree with that breakdown.

Lulu
Lulu

Boomers have always gone through 1963. You aren’t Gen X if you were an adult when MTV and home video games became a thing. You have nothing culturally in common with Gen X.

Boomer always started in 1946 – they were the babies born after WWII.

Anonymous
Anonymous

I’m in .y late 50s. I expect Medicare and Social security to move the age up.

Never the less, I look at Social Security and Medicare as a wash.

In other words, all Social Security money goes to Medicare.

Obamma Care is structured based on expected earnings. A very progressive 20% additional income tax. Should you exceed 51,000 you will be penalized $1,5000 × 12 months for the Silver Plan.

You see the paradox. In order to save money you need to forego Health Insurance. However if you have hundreds of thousand of dollars you need insurance and can no longer save money.

MSyzlak
MSyzlak

FedGov loves Catch-22’s (aka “damned if you do, damned if you don’t'”; “vote for the lesser of two evils”; “fuck you, pay me”; etc)

pyrrhus
pyrrhus

Daisy, your age brackets are wrong…GenX is not a 10 year “generation”, etc….

MSyzlak
MSyzlak

Guys, … guys, … these are make-believe, artbitrary constructs. As loosely defined abstract categories to distinguish among people raised with similar social & technological experiences they can help convey you loosely categorize to help get your meaning across.
Accepting some definition demarcated by year (with the possible exception of the start of the Baby Boom) is like expecting to see an actual physical line when you arrive at a place where a map says there’s a line.

Anonymous
Anonymous

If Generation Z took that $3473 that they spent on restaurant food and put it in a Roth IRA for 50 years. And it averaged 12% a year, they would have $12,400,000 to retire on. Awfully expensive meals!!!

BL
BL

A guy named Ira Roth tried to sell me a Roth IRA, I turned it down. I was on my way to a restaurant at the time. 🙂

BL who is not a GEN X-er

*** I was the one who upped you.

MrLiberty
MrLiberty

I get why the lying sacks of shit that promote Wall Street investments use the 12% rate, but why do you? Who in the hell has EVER gotten 12%, especially with the inevitable busts at the end of the Federal Reserve-created bubbles?

MSyzlak
MSyzlak

Agree. A truly optimistic estimate would be more like $700k, not $12 million. It would have been good advice for a Gen-Xer 25 yrs ago …. except for 2001, … oh, and 2008. For a millenial today, it’s folly. Money thrown away. Enjoy your Wendy’s, millenials … it may be your last.

Salvinia
Salvinia

Point being, they would have to understand how to generate consistent 12% annual returns with a degree in Hispanic/African American/Women’s studies? As the average philosophy major, or psychology major what “net present value” means.

MrLiberty
MrLiberty

20 years ago, 1964 was lumped in with Gen-X. What happened? I most definitely do NOT feel any part of the Boomer generation. They were produced by the 1920s folks of the “Greatest” generation, while my parents were part of the Silent generation. These lines in the sand are preposterous. There aren’t even a consistent number of years for each grouping. Only 11 for GenX while the others are 18+? Even my wife, whose brothers and sisters were born shortly after the war (boomers), was born 9 years after her closest brother (’62), and definitely associates more with the Gen-X folks than anything. And thanks to the way our parents raised us, our good money-handling, and her good savings attitude before her death, we are doing quite well.

Lulu
Lulu

Gen X was always 1964 to 1978 – they moved it up to 1980 when they grouped the millenials. But yes it was 1964 because Gen X was first called the Baby Bust and that’s when the birth rates fell.

SeeBee
SeeBee

It’s just the Big “Oh Shit!” moment the generation on deck to retirement experiences.

Bad Brad
Bad Brad

Wait! What? This looks a VERY flawed study. The list says the Gen X crowd went from
1965-1976. That is only about one decade. How is that?
I say about 20 years for a sub generation, so that brings the Gen X crowd to 1985.
Then a quote says their ages are from 38 to 53 years old. That is 15 years. Time for
some people to re-take college football players math again.
The one gem from the article: Debt. Lots of it. And Baby Bop Head Boomers, Gen X, and
Millennials have lots of it. Thank you Banksters, Corporate America, Gobermint.

Anonymous
Anonymous

GENERATION X

We are THE LOST GENERATION!

MrLiberty
MrLiberty

Billy Idol in his first “incarnation” with appropriately enough….Generation X:

Lyrics:
Trying to forget your generation
You know all the ways when in what I see
The ends must justify the means
Your generation don’t mean a thing to me
I say your generation don’t mean a thing to me
I say your generation don’t mean a thing to me

Might take a bit of violence
But violence ain’t our only stance
Might make our friends enemies
But we gotta take that chance

There ain’t no time for substitutes
There ain’t no time for idle threats
Actions are rather hard to place
‘Cause what you give is what you get

So, that’s your generation
It’s your generation
Well it’s your generation
It’s your generation

Trying to forget your generation
You know all the ways when in what I see
The ends must justify the means
Your generation don’t mean a thing to me
I say your generation don’t mean a thing to me
I say your generation don’t mean a thing to me

Might take a bit of violence
But violence ain’t our only stance
Might make our friends enemies
But we gotta take that chance

There ain’t no time for substitutes
There ain’t no time for idle threats
Actions are rather hard to place
Cause what you give is what you get

So, that’s your generation
It’s your generation
Well it’s your generation
It’s your generation

To the end justify the means
To the end justify the means
To the end justify the means
To the end justify the means
It time for generation

Tacitus
Tacitus

I’m an X’er who works 84 hour weeks about 360 days a year. I’m treading water and know I’ve been fucked for years. It’s good to see this shit finally being accurately reported. Outside of certain labor circles there are no decent jobs. It’s basically that simple. The fucking jews and catholics sold me out in 1965 and I get to be some camel jockeys’ wage slave forever. Thanks Ted, I really hope Hell is hot enough for you.

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