Somebody needs to take history 101: After September 11, men signed up for the military by the boatloads to go fight in Afghanistan. Only when we invaded Iraq, which had nothing to do with 911, and began the “nation building” exercise did the military then have trouble recruiting and for good reason. The fact is, any generation would have responded the same way to Pearl Harbor and to 911.

“And the “Greatest Generation” wasn’t that great either. They were racist mysogenistic douchebags. And any other generation would have done the same thing if Pearl Harbor happened in their time. ”

men who were denied by the military after pearl harbor committed suicide. after september 11th the military had such a hard time getting people to join it had to accept convicted murderers. i see a distinct difference in the character of the two generations.

“War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things.
The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.
The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight,
nothing which is more important than his own personal safety,
is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free
unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.”

total military, all branches, active and reserve make up 0.7% of the population. 0.5% is active duty. 0.5% of 300 million is about 1.5 million. about half of that is airforce, navy and coast guard which are relatively safe branches compared to the army and marines. of those in the army and marines less than 25% are in combat arms jobs where the metal meets the meat.

so a quarter or less of half of 1.5 million is on the front line. less than 200,000 americans, aged 17 to 60 something protect 299,800,000 americans that dont serve.

this millennial generation that i grew up with, and you regard so highly, did not enlist to protect america when it needed them. they joined when the economy went to pot and they needed the military.

i dont share your enthusiasm for the spoiled children of spoiled children who are just as self serving as their parents.

We have lived for generations being one side or the other. The difference is that the newer generations don’t care about left or right, or democrat or republican. We just want to live our lives and not have you people telling us what we should be doing. baby boomers tell us whats right and wrong, guess what the right and left are wrong. Get over yourselves. Guess what your not great. You didn’t make the world better. You corrupted a whole generation to have self entitlement, and hopefully more people in my generation other than myself see what you have tried to do. Shame on you. You don’t want to know how many people I hear from the boomers saying, “the government needs to help me i lost 400k in my 401k.”
I’m gonna let you in on a secret,”Maybe you shouldn’t have had all your retirement money in high risk stocks when your 50.” Bunch of idiots.

You created this future.

Deal with it.

Don’t cry when we don’t help you when your 80 and living in a home. We wont have the money while we are paying off your debt.

Gen X is a hybrid generation, they are balanced and understand both sides of things.

Gen Y is the first digital generation, they are riddled with bugs.

Gen Z(millenniums) are too young to be discussed, who knows how they will turn out. I have feeling they will eat the Gen Y shit just like Gen X ate big brothers shit.

The idiocrats(the baby boomer) are subtle fascist that exploits their children for their own benefit. With parents like that who needs enemy? They will make a pause for Gen Y. But it is just a pause. The idiocrats think they actually succeeded and did good, they will clone themselves via Gen Y.

Hitler obvious fascism ruled for around 5 years, the boomers subtle fascism has been in full swing for 30 years now. Don’t ask the them to talk to you about it, they don’t even know about it because they are dumb ass idiots!

The baby boomers were brain washed by operation paper clip. They formed the boomers via the tv. The boomers will believe everything they see on the tv, at the expense of their children.

I’m 37, but i look like i’m 23. Every time a boomer idiot talks to me they are nice until i tell them i’m 37.

The boomers are a lie and a trap. Gen Y, you have been warned.

I hate Baby Boomers but not so much Gen X’ers. Maybe because I’m technically a Gen Y’er, but I was born in 1983, so I was into the Cobain stuff.

They (baby boomers) really screwed everything up. They had all the fun. We got screwed over. Luckily I never paid attention to that crap and I lived a good college, High School, and Post-Grad life…

…unfortunately, I screwed up in going into the corporate world. It’s a killer out there. And let me tell you, it’s the baby boomers’ faults. Where I work, work is never shut off. You are always on call. blackberries, emails, calls at 12 AM. I’m telling you, it’s horrid and it wasn’t this way until the greedy Baby Boomers started getting into the Yuppie years in the 1980s. They had their parties in the late 1960s and all the 1970s. Then when their kids got a little bit older, they sold out and created this greedy mess.

I shut off my phone every Friday and people look at me at the office like I am a rebel. When I leave at 5, I get laughed at…the very very very old people in the corporation say it wasn’t this way until the 1980s.

Baby boomers were either sell outs like Jerry Rubin or ended up blowing their brains out Abbie Hoffman style when their realized their friends in Chicago ’68 were just doing it to get laid.

And the “Greatest Generation” wasn’t that great either. They were racist mysogenistic douchebags. And any other generation would have done the same thing if Pearl Harbor happened in their time.

In conclusion, of all the living generations, Baby Boomers and “Greatest Generation” folks were jerks. Gen X’ers never had a chance. And the Melleniums are douchebags, but look at their parents, you can’t blame em.

A little irony there, huh? Admittedly, I’m a genXer–but I sniffed out this BS back in high school. Back then, I didn’t have the benefit of a rear-view mirror to decode my growing sense of unease over rampant entitlement, hubris, and rationalized greed. I’d say the past decade or two of all-out business failures should suggest–this generation has no sense of leadership or strategy. It’s time to speak from our conscience, and actively seek change. I wasted years kissing up to these people–believing it was “in my best interest”. Whatever, time to say it like it is–and I’m rather amazing so many came to similar conclusions. There is some hope.