I would agree with some of the comments written here, and I think the situation is getting worse.

There are children now starting work at about 15 (part time), and in university, most students are fitting in their studies between their part time or full time job.

After that, they have large mortgages to pay off, and if you are a male, you will probably have to pay child support, plus pay for two or more mortgages by the time they drop.

Who has the time to do volunteer work.

Added to this has been the decimation of families, and the belief that governments should provide everything.

The baby boomers are powerfull because there are so many of them.. they parents had reasonable-sized families.

The problems for Gen X and Gen Y (named as such by Copeland because their numbers are dwarfed by the mass of the baby BOOMers). Since there are so many baby boomers, they have dictated popular culture and to a large extent politics, for the last 50 years.

The beliefs and the needs of Gen X and Gen Y are ignored and insulted by the whinging of the all-powerfull baby boomers.

Well guess what! Good news at last! the baby boomers are about to loose grip on power. as they move from being heads of departments and senior jounalista and influencial business-people, and become just retirees, or even better as they shuffle off this mortal coil and die, the opinions and the politics and the needs of the rest of us will finally be heard.

Feminism will die and the family-hatred of feminism will be rolled back. The social-welfare industries which work terrribly hard to increase problems in our society, to increase the size and power of these same social-welfare industries, will again, be rolled back.

Want to hear a joke? How do you make a problem bigger? Get government to give a bunch of bureaucrats and baby-boomers a big bag of money to make the problem go away. Guess what they will do woth that money? They will make the problem BIGGER!

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From converting drug addicts to methadone users (ensuring a life-long dependance on the system), from giving the welfare-dependant bag-fulls of money to have loads of kids, ensuring that instead of a small underclass, the next generation will be far more numerous. From demanding equal pay and stupidly generous welfare payments to aboriginies, so that they have no option but to be welfare-dependant, ensuring ever larger bureaucrcies to service them.

THe main problem that has allowed baby boomers to become and remain so powerfull is that they failed. They failed to have children. Their hedonism, their belief in feminism and their hatred of marriage, have meant that men no-longer want to become fathers and a whole generation of Gen X women can't get husbands.

And now we are left paying the costs of an aging population. The population is aging because the baby-boomers failed to reproduce themselves, failed to have children.

The aged baby-boomers forgot that to pay for their pensions and escallating medical costs, they would need to have children to pay the taxes that fund these services. So Gen X and Gen Y are sh!t-scarred and working their back-sides off paying stupid real estate prices and taxes for the lazy, self-indulgent, selfish feminist, socialist baby-boomers.

The financial crisis was caused by too many old people. A stock market boom, followed by a bust is classic response to an aging population. Japan suffered it in the 1990's... Have google for "Harry Dent demographics" to get a better explaination.

Baby-boomer = selfish, lazy and spoilt.

PartTimeParent@pobox.com

i cant even be botherd to read the article
let alone the comments..[past the 1 st page]

but will throw this out-there
depite being much abused by this generation..[ne'X'us]

look at what has been layed on them..
little wonder we are confounded by them
they grww up with star=wars were raised by tv..[worse yanki tv]
the simpleton/simpson generation...'says-a-me..street'

govt made sure they got govt gift to learn how to become con-sumers
they have no positive male role models..

[look at the yanki tv..deliberatly showing idiot father figures..[deliberatly so they ignore fathers authority and advice...

[the powers that be have done this deliberatly]

made them over into the perfect litle consuers..[following the latest fad..the latest star...doing that their peers do...its such a perfect rewriting of traditional respect...into social duty

trained to kill by remote control
trained to oput the next cancer cause [mobiles]
directly on to their developing brains ,

this is the generation that will never get retired...

they will be dying according to plan...egsactly at the age science has accorded them...[unless mutilated first in war]...or dying by their own hand..thanks to media induced guilt

lay-off these kids ...who had to raise/educate...
pay their way from birth...right into their early graves

enough is enough
all us oldies arnt going to retire..
just look at the old flatulates..on ya tv still running things

neither will they the x generations lay off em
we put them through enough...they got where they are now/by themselves

so dont be supprised
they can only think of themselves..tomorrow

we made them think....
there shall be no tomorrow

trust the seeds you planted to bear the fruits
we planted in them...you get as you earn

I suspect that Clownfish has, so far, summed the article up most succinctly and accurately: tripe. Generational stereotyping is about as rational and as accurate as racial or gender stereotyping. There are baby boomers who changed the world and there are baby boomers who have been content to play house from an early age. There are Gen Xers who changed the world and, surprise surprise, there are Gen Xers who didn't. The same goes for Gen Y and the future will be the same.

The context in which all of this takes place changes, of course. X and Y have a much bigger burden in paying off their mortgages. Boomers grew up with more primitive technology. X and Y pay substantially more for their education. Boomers are sucked in by those who claim to have their interests at heart (think Storm Financial). If context makes the man, then certainly we see differences. But, if context makes the man, then the generation that makes the context must take responsibility for the man created therein.

Will blow my own horn here Sandra.

I must have been and am 'superwoman'!

Always room for improvement though!