Friday, March 6, 2015

Generation Jones

Wikipedia says,
Generation Jones is a term coined by the author Jonathan Pontell to describe the cohort of people born from approximately 1954 to 1965.[1][2][3] Pontell defined Generation Jones as referring to the last years of the post–World War II baby boom.[4] The term also includes first-wave Generation X.
The name "Generation Jones" has several connotations, including a large anonymous generation, a "keeping up with the Joneses" competitiveness and the slang word "jones" or "jonesing", meaning a yearning or craving.[5][6][7][8] It is said[by whom?] that Jonesers were given huge expectations as children in the 1960s, and then confronted with a different reality as they came of age during a long period of mass unemployment and when de-industrialization arrived full force in the 1970s and 1980s, leaving them with a certain unrequited "jonesing" quality for the more prosperous days in the past. The generation is noted for coming of age after a huge swath of the population had come immediately preceding them; thus, many Generation Jones members complain that there was a paucity of resources and privileges available to them that were seemingly abundant to Baby Boomers born earlier. Therefore, there is a certain level of bitterness about and a "jonesing" for the level of freedom and affluence granted to older boomers but denied to their generation.[9]

Ya, I'm Jonesin'. 

Us Generation Jones types are the butt end of the Boomer generation and man does it feel like it. Our Boomer brethren took all the money, shipped out our opportunities to China and burdened us and the generations after with an unpayable debt. We have been made debt slaves, born to pay for the retirement plans of the most selfish generation of humans in history.

I'm telling you now that I will not participate. We need to get our act together along with the generations that followed us and refuse to pay the Boomer's bills.  Repudiate the debt of these blood suckers and let them die. They are pustules on the body politic that must be lanced. There will be scars, but so be it. The time is now.

Boomers you are on notice. We will not carry your load. It is not our job. You are leeches that steal from your fellow citizens and you produce nothing but pain for others. It's time for you to go.