Wednesday, September 26, 2018

Population Games


Liberals like to play games with statistics and they like to name things to gain acceptance of their scams. They are like the statistician who told you the lake had a mean depth of 3 feet, so they could watch you drown.

Population demographics have been manipulated to justify fake crises and scams.  I first noticed this in the 1960s when the scammers were predicting global overpopulation, world hunger and a minority majority in the US driven by demographics. Liberals have razzle-dazzled governments and corporations with their conjured narratives.


I went looking for a report on US Population by Age and found none that simply listed this. It would be a simple list of how many people were born in each particular year from 1900 to 2018. Instead, I got population numbers by grouping with names that made me suspicious. Liberals are like all other incompetent criminals, they leave clues.

One website that didn’t look so “progressive” listed “generations back to 1871-1889 and called them “The New Worlders” commenting on high US immigration needed to work in the Industrial Revolution. It also added the 1890 – 1908 groups and called them “The Hard Timers”. This is the group who saw the inventions of the Industrial Revolution become reality and this was called “The Gay Nineties”. I think progressives like to claim this name to justify their socialist programs in 1913.

When I saw “The Greatest Generation”, born before 1928, I knew that this group fought in World War I and World War II. This group saw the 1929 stock market crash, the Great Depression and Dust Bowl droughts of the 1930s.

When I saw “The Silent Generation” born from 1928 to 1945, the explanation for the name was that the people in this group were not “activists”, meaning that they were not rioting “progressives” and were busy working. One website said they were born from 1925 to 1945. Another website calls them “The Lucky Few” and puts them from 1929 and 1945. This included the children of the Great Depression from 1928 to 1940 and the full-employment workforce from 1940 to 1945 that supported the “war effort” for World War II.

I was born in 1943. My aunts and uncles were born from 1915 to 1930. They saw the introduction of the new inventions like the telephone, the radio and the Great Depression.  I was a teenager in the 1950s and 1960s and saw left-wing protests and race riots and the Vietnam War. I graduated college in 1965, got married and went to work. There wasn’t much silence.

The “Baby Boomers” 1945-1964 were so named, because at the end of World War II in 1945, the US soldiers came home, got married and had kids and bought houses and cars.

Website 1 - Resident population in the United States in 2017, by generation (in millions).  The Greatest Generation (born before1928) 2.57 million. The Silent Generation (born 1928-1945) 25.68 million, span 17 years. The Baby Boomer Generation (born 1946-1964) 73.47 million, span 18 years. 
Generation X (born 1965-1980) 65.71 million, span 15 years
The Millennial Generation (born 1981-1996) 71.86 million, span 15 years. Generation Z(born 1997 and later) 86.43 million, span 21 years

While some generations are known by one name only, such as the Baby Boomers, names for other generations is a matter of some dispute among experts.  Neil Howe and William Strauss define recent generational cohorts in the U.S. this way: 

Website 2 - The Names of Generations in the U.S. 
2000 to present: New Silent Generation or Generation Z, span 18 years
1980 to 2000: Millennials or Generation Y, span 20 years
1965 to 1979: Thirteeners or Generation X, span 14 years
1946 to 1964: Baby Boomers, span 18 years
1925 to 1945: Silent Generation, span 20 years
1900 to 1924: G.I. Generation, span 24 years

Website 2 - The Population Reference Bureau provides an alternate listing and chronology of generational names in the United States:
1983 to 2001: New Boomers, span 18 years
1965 to 1982: Generation X, span 17 years
1946 to 1964: Baby Boomers, span 18 years
1929 to 1945: Lucky Few, span 16 years
1909 to 1928: Good Warriors, span 19 years
1890 to 1908: Hard Timers, span, 18 years
1871 to 1889: New Worlders, span 18 years

I tend to look at our generations from the 1600s as expanding colonists, the 1700s as rugged individualists, the 1800s as patriots and winners of the Industrial Revolution, the 1900s as the destroyers of our free market system.

Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader

1 comment:

Priscilla King said...

Though historical factors do shape people, I've always been bemused by the whole idea of demographic generations, especially the way they can be less than 25 or even 20 years.

Relative to large-scale demographics, my brother and I were born in different generations. This is just plain silly.

Relative to my home town's culture, my brother and I were baby-boomers (no TV at home before teen years, hated "Miss Mean's" fifth grade math and cheered for Coach Frye's winning team and so on) but my natural sister belongs to a younger generation (grew up with TV, different teachers, etc.). This at least works as a joke.

Generations make sense in relation to a specific family, but even then there's room for overlap. Some people are older than their aunts/uncles.

And yes, there ought to be a reference site *somewhere* that simply lists how many people were born, and how many were admitted as legal immigrants, for each year.