[wisconsin_cur]

David Brooks writes in today's NYTimes:

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'R')aised in prosperity, favored by genetics, these young meritocrats will have to govern in a period when the demands on the nation’s wealth outstrip the supply. They will grapple with the growing burdens of an aging society, rising health care costs and high energy prices. They will have to make up for the trillion-plus dollars the government will spend to avoid a deep recession. They will have to struggle to keep their promises to cut taxes, create an energy revolution, pass an expensive health care plan and all the rest.

As Robert J. Samuelson writes in his forthcoming book, “The Great Inflation and Its Aftermath,” “Already, Americans face far more claims on their incomes than can be easily met.”

In the next few years, the nation’s wealth will either stagnate or shrink. The fiscal squeeze will grow severe. There will be fiercer struggles over scarce resources, starker divisions along factional lines. The challenge for the next president will be to cushion the pain of the current recession while at the same time trying to build a solid fiscal foundation so the country can thrive at some point in the future.

We’re probably entering a period, in other words, in which smart young liberals meet a stone-cold scarcity that they do not seem to recognize or have a plan for.

In an age of transition, the children are left to grapple with the burdens of their elders.

[ohanian]

Relax.

Generation X had to deal with the scarcity of personal failures since the day they were born.

Scarcity is a concept quite familiar with them.

[GeneralGreen]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'R')elax.

Generation X had to deal with the scarcity of personal failures since the day they were born.

Scarcity is a concept quite familiar with them.

[wisconsin_cur]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('GeneralGreen', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'R')elax.

Generation X had to deal with the scarcity of personal failures since the day they were born.

Scarcity is a concept quite familiar with them.

[Ayoob]

It should be pretty simple. We're going to throw the boomers under the bus. Problem solved!

[RapaNui]

Gen X will be seen among zombies, searching for power ups - shocked to find that they are not real.

[ReverseEngineer]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ayoob', 'I')t should be pretty simple. We're going to throw the boomers under the bus. Problem solved!

[RapaNui]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ReverseEngineer', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ayoob', 'I')t should be pretty simple. We're going to throw the boomers under the bus. Problem solved!

[ReverseEngineer]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('RapaNui', '
')Throw Boomies under Boomies' free scooters. Take scooters. Rapa wants own free scooter, but not prequalified for free medicare free! .

[Quicksilver]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ayoob', 'I')t should be pretty simple. We're going to throw the boomers under the bus. Problem solved!

[vtsnowedin]

Well the gang bangers playing Xbox in their mommas crib may not amount to much but about two million Gen Xers have been or are serving in the military and will soon be veterans going to college under the current GI bill. Therein lies a pool of leaders that have and will step up to the plate and meet the challenges ahead.
It is pretty silly to lump all these young people into a group based on their birth decade and assume they all share some defect or ability in common.

[Ayoob]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('vtsnowedin', '8')) Well the gang bangers playing Xbox in their mommas crib may not amount to much but about two million Gen Xers have been or are serving in the military and will soon be veterans going to college under the current GI bill. Therein lies a pool of leaders that have and will step up to the plate and meet the challenges ahead.
It is pretty silly to lump all these young people into a group based on their birth decade and assume they all share some defect or ability in common.

[ReverseEngineer]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('vtsnowedin', ' ')It is pretty silly to lump all these young people into a group based on their birth decade and assume they all share some defect or ability in common.

[thylacine]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('vtsnowedin', 'I')t is pretty silly to lump all these young people into a group based on their birth decade and assume they all share some defect or ability in common.

[Cloud9]

Before you decide to eat me, remember this: I’m old and stringy and probably have several communicable diseases.

[ReverseEngineer]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ayoob', 'T')he Founding Fathers were the GenX of their time. Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, Patrick Henry, Benjamin Franklin, etc.

[mgibbons19]

Xers will do fine. They're tougher than you think.

If you're interested, go pick up a copy of Strauss and Howe (19971) at the library or bookstore.

[Arsenal]

As a GenXer I think we will do fine. My question for those touted Boomers. How can you sit on your high horse as say the younger generations are of lesser status?

You raped the globe and are leaving us the mess to clean up.

You vote in the most asinine laws/people I have ever seen. Don't argue here. It is a fact the older people vote more than the younger generations and you guys have the numbers.

You RAISED us!! So to say our generation are uneducated and wasteful fool is a little hypocritical. Maybe you should turned off the TV and ACTUALLY PARENTED.

\rant

Now. It doesn't feel nice to be thrown into a group and labeled. Does it? We will do fine. All through out our lives we have been labeled the lost generation. Not enough numbers to matter and completely without focus. We will as will Gen Y when their time comes and we will probably bitch about it.

Boomers, Gen X, Gen Y, etc... We will all die the same if not prepared.

[Arsenal]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ReverseEngineer', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ayoob', 'T')he Founding Fathers were the GenX of their time. Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, Patrick Henry, Benjamin Franklin, etc.

[benzoil]

GenX will do fine. Or at least, as well as can be expected. Gen X is used to change. Gen Y is already used to getting less. I expect to see more problems from Boomers freaking out that their retirement just evaporated than X'ers freaking out because they have to change careers...again.