As we near the halfway point of 2009 the media will begin to look back on the past decade and provide their assessments. Let me be the first: it stunk. It was simply a horrible decade for the United States. 9/11, Katrina, Iraq, Afghanistan, the economic meltdown, torture, oil prices, the auto industry tanking, and the ascension of Spongebob. I’ll go out on limb and say it ranks among the worst in our history. Certainly, the 1930’s were no picnic but the country had the luxury of not having the media cramming misery down their throats 24 hours a day. The 1860’s had the Civil War, but that decade also saw a nation coming back together in the aftermath. What is the silver lining for this decade? I’ll say it is Generation Y, also known as the Millennials - I suspect that they may one day lay claim to the title “the greatest generation.”
Also, enough of the "Greatest Generation" tag. It's just the goddamn name of a book written by Tom Brokaw to cash in on the WWII peeps before they get rolled out of their Florida condos feet first. Besides, if the title wasn't good enough for Our Country's founding fathers to be called it's not fitting for any group to inherit this name.
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If the writer of that blurb thinks that the last ten years of Gen Y's life has been one of the worst in history, I would say that they don't really know what bad is. Count your blessings, things could always be worse.
They could be worse, BB, and I think it will be soon -- for a while, until things level out again. Or until we end up in a war with North Korea.
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