Posted on 02/07/2016 7:54:04 AM PST by DeathBeforeDishonor1
No, but we all know that the true power in DC is the money and through the staffs.
Certainly the senior management in major US firms during that era was made up of prime time Silents who would have been n their late forties and early fifties right after Vietnam Nam.
I guarantee you that your exposure to the younger generation is quite limited.
With the exception of a few, the ones that I have seen have developed an entitlement attitude.
“a $200 bedspread for her dorm room.”
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I’ve never owned a $200.00 bedspread in my life.
The kids today don’t have a clue.
I have a grandson who goes to a pricey college fly across the country to visit a friend for 4 days.
Astonishing to me.
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SSI was created by the so called “Greatest Generation” in 1972, when only the very oldest of Boomers could vote. It funds those 65 and older, so Boomers have only been collecting since 2011.
EBT is simply an electronic delivery system for programs already in place, which were implemented again by the WWII Generation.
The expansion of SNAP was indeed largely passed by Boomer politicians. On the other hand, the entire SNAP program represents just $74 billion of the total $3.8 trillion of Federal spending in fiscal year 2015. Since 76% of SNAP benefits go towards households with children, and as you pointed out the big expansion came in 2009, Millennials and Gen-Xers have been the big beneficiaries of the largess.
WIC also began in 1972, so the argument that Boomers created it falls flat. In fact the big expansion of Federal debt, as another poster pointed out, has come under Obama. Once more I must remind you that Obama was elected by Millennials, not by Boomers.
I would say, yes please, do further research. You might just learn something.
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The difference between Millenials and our generation, is that our parents did not pay for our luxuries. The only exception was if your parents were rich. My generation paid for our own stuff. We had cheap cars, and high tech was not in place, so we had no computers and i phones. Back in my day,kids lived in dorms in college. Now, parents are funding apartments for their children to live in. The problem is, those kis are not going to have the same lifestyle as their parents, and they are now angry.
Since your statement includes a generational reference, you must think it’s a great example of sociology, right? Sorry, no participation trophies for you!
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The boomers--i.e., those born 1946-1964--the boomers did not create Social Security or Medicare. Franklin Roosevelt (b. 1882) was not a boomer. Lyndon Johnson (b. 1908) was not a boomer. These were the guys who laid these Big Government burdens on our backs. I, a boomer (b. 1953), wish these gargantuan wealth-redistribution programs were never created, and if it were up to me, they would be phased out over time as equitably as possible. But as it is, I have paid heavily into those programs, it's my money the government has stolen, and I would like some of my money back.
Their apparent plan was
1. Use the boomers to finance buying the votes needed to take and retain power.
2. Steal as much from the population as possible while in power.
3. When the money runs out, finance everything as long as you can get away with it by passing the debt down to those who come after us.
4. As the boomers come closer to wanting their benefits, demonize them, wreck their healthcare, and finally, STEAL their 401K contributions as the country is destroyed into separate political entities.
The last two items are in the works you can be sure.
We have been governed by lies and deception for last 100 years. Their ability to keep a lid on everything is quickly coming to an end. One example is the Zapruder film of the JFK assassination. They doctored it to show what they wanted us to believe. They got away with it because the technology did not exist at that time to expose what they did. Once this is proven by today's technology, their little game of lies and deception will start to unravel and THEY are finished.
I believe they are planning a big event to bring in martial law before Obama leaves office because they are in a desperate condition.
Their fixed that!
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How many do you know?
How many have you spoken to, beyond your grandkids?
I worked for fourteen years on no fewer than 25 college campuses over the past fifteen years.
They are smarter, more focused, more aware than we were when we were their age. Sure, a lot of them live with their parents. But if you look back just two generations, that was the norm, not the exception.
The boomers and the X’ers were very good at moving away and putting their parents in “homes.” Back in the 20s and 30s, that did not happen.
I have to agree to some extent with the OP. While no generation is without its faults our society really began to go off the rails with the arrival of the boomers on the scene. The last generation that I had much use for is the so called “silent generation” those between the so “greatest generation” and the boomers. My experience with these people is they generally kept their heads down worked hard, raised families, with many serving in Korea with little fanfare and lived honorable traditional lives. While the boomers in many respects represent a historical break in our country’s history it’s not like any of the succeeding generations are any better, in fact I’d argue they’re all much, much worse. The so called millennials, of which I’m ashamed to admit that I’m tentatively a member of, are a verifiable Frankenstein freak show.
On a related note somebody on here posted a quip about how the “greatest generation” is really the “statest generation”, they voted for FDR and his New Deal and then voted for LBJ and his “Great Society”.
Voters at 20 years 1965, birth date 1945+
1965 Supreme court, the right to contraception
Vietnam
1973 row v wade, the right to an abortion
1973 Homosexual behavior no longer considered mental disease.
1998 executive order sexual orientation protections in the work place
Afghanistan/Iraq
2005 Terri Schiavo, the right to be euthanize
2010 Judge rules military policy on gays unconstitutional (Openly gay given right to serve in the military)
Syria/ Libya
2015 Gay Marriage is made a right.
Those born 1945 now 70 years old
Not much green on those branches.
Whatever. You are the expert. Who am I to suggest you are not?
“Our national debt is now at around $17 trillion”
The article is incorrect. We just hit $19T.
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