" Damn kids........!  said at least once during the day somewhere in the United States by many.

   I have been reading much over the last few days about the state of the union ( USA ) which till recently was only given once a year by the President of the United States and usually entailed silly people standing up and clapping forever ( several times ) while listening to the President actually tell us nothing. I know they weren't clapping at the speech. But I (o/e) will tell you what is really going on. Smoke it if you got one.

    The problems we face today has all been caused by B-A-B-Y B-O-O-M-E-R-S, I am one that is how I know. Baby Boomers have been defined by whoever makes this shit up, as people born between 1946-1964. I define them as people born between 1946- 1970. Because 1970 was when the young people at the time were either going to Vietnam ( drafted ) or trying to get out of going there or stoned or both. Everyone after 1970 became Generation X 'rs. Another new term of definition where they didn't have a catchy phrase so that stuck. If you were born in 1970 you are now forty unless you were born in the last 7 days.

   There are exceptions to the above time line, my wife who has been 36 for the last 14 years is GenX. That is going to be a painful joke later. If you look now who is running everything in this country they are GenX people. There are a few hanger on BB's like ( shit Dick Cheney, and......) well not many. Bet you are now wondering how I could make a conclusion like this? Baby Boomers were brought up differently way back when. We had parents who most lived during the depression and WW2 and were given values and a hard work ethic to become better. They went to schools that actually educated you in everything that in some way would improve your life. They had families and jobs, mother's would put off furthering their careers to raise children. You were given the same opportunities as they had young only better, more improved. You got married and started a family, then as the time line became closer to 1964- 1970 things changed. The marriage rate changed, the birth rates changed. The United States was changing. Our attitudes changed, technology rapidly changed.

   So we had new people on the block after Vietnam. People like me and others who came back entered in the mainstream and got job's or went back to school to finish their interupted time before. People who graduated from school and college's and became our now changing workforce. We wanted what our parents had but we went about getting it in different ways, with different attitudes. Some started families others chose to wait. Marriage became let's live together first and get ahead ourselves. We were independent men and women. Church and faith to some became backseat I'll talk to you when I'm available. Television programming changed from family oriented to tabloid extreme. News became mindless chatter. Our children now were not afforded what we had growing up. Both parents worked now to have more to maintain a lifestyle. Teachers became babysitters instead of educators. Government became larger and bloated with overlapping functions......I can't take it anymore!!!!. Sorry got excited there.

   My first wife and I were married in the early eighties, we both had good paying careers, lived very nice. We had our first daughter in 1989 and our second in 1995. We divorced in 1999. The baby boomers in us produced our Generation X who now are running the country and wondering what went wrong. Except for the few who have taken advantage of our mistakes and miguided intentions and will continue to do so until the system we broke is fixed. Blaming it on Democrats or Republicans or aliens from Wal-Mart is misguided and plain continued recklessness. Everybody has responsibility for it and we all better figure out how to fix it. What's that saying, " you can't fix stupid." We better start thinking about that.  Good Day.......older/exasperated      2011