Alright so to catch up go to my earlier post setting this one up.

Gideon Yago's main talking points were:

- Our generation (17-27 yr olds) make up just under 78 million people

- We are the most saught after demographic but we have little influence in politics

- The new Paris Hilton show is not, repeat NOT, his fault.

- He now works for CBS so he does not know why MTV doesn't play music videos anymore

To go deeper, he said that we, the consumer generation, are huge. Our numbers are three times the population of Iraq, double that of the UK's, and more than New York and California combine. Companies want to control our wallets more than any other demographic. We have so much more power than buying power and we don't even know it. He made the point that our biggest influential years were 1972, and 1992. The year 18 year old people gained the right to vote and the year we voted in Bill Clinton. The conditions that we usually vote are right after big legislation or after big wars. Times when we are directly involved i.e. drafts. Gideon predicts that we will influence this election in record numbers.

He also made the point that we only show are power in sprints. We do it for one election and then back off and let the country to go crap.

Alright you know what!?

Yes, my generation is distracted. We are easily apathetic and shortsighted. However I am personally tired of everybody saying that our generation is crap. We are amazing, we got Bill Clinton elected and that lead to a national surplus. Then we took a break to, oh I don't know, focus on things like: rockband, guitarhero, the internet, getting laid, growing facial hair, getting friends, learning guitar, changing majors, building our resume, winning NCAA titles, and other things to BUILD THE FOUNDATIONS OF OUR LIVES!!! Maybe we don't have time to fix the country because we are too busy finding out how the country got messed up by our parents and grandparents. My generation has it the hardest because we are looked to do everything that everybody else can't. We are the healthiest, we are the fastest, and we are the most open minded.

I say if there is a country by the time our generation gets into the government, we will have to work for the rest of our lives to fix this country. Knowing that, if we want to get drunk, play video games, and grabass for four years prior to that then we should have the right to do so. Because our lives will suck after. So college students; eat, drink, and be merry because we have so much work ahead of us.