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Dang, thought I was done with this thread. Hope y’all don’t mind a little more commentary. (FYI - not directed at the OP, hope you don’t mind the thread clutter).
RE: Inheritance, do previous generations owe us?
That was a bit of a rant, and I was being dramatic. That said, I’m not entirely talking about wealth and worldly goods here. That’s a side effect. Okay, maybe I am, sort of.
The way I see it is like this. We’re all guilty. Previous generations, my generation, and no doubt generations to come, until (if and when) it all comes crashing down.
It’s just easy to blame the boomers, since they’re such nice, juicy targets.
It’s easy to blame the corporate fatcats for their outsourcing and closing down plants/jobs etc. in America for a quick buck. After all, a job sent overseas, or a factory shuttered is a job that won’t be there for the next generation.
Likewise, poor education is knowledge, and the freedom that comes with it denied to a future generation.
But when it comes down to it, when I go to the store and pick up a cheap t-shirt, and don’t even read the label … (remember “look for the union label”???) … I’m contributing to that future, or lack thereof.
When I buy a Japanese car because American workers are lazy and entitled union slobs … I’m contributing to that future. (I love my Pontiac, btw - it just happens to be from Australia.)
When I don’t vote in the local school board election, or raise a fuss over that textbook that’s chock full of radical ideas (and denigrates our Founding Fathers and other historical heroes), I’m contributing to that future.
It’s not just about the nation’s wealth, it’s about our true inheritance - freedom.
As President Reagan once said, Freedom isn’t something that’s passed on in the blood, it’s something that we have to fight for, every generation, or someday people will speak of that place where men once were free.
Except come to find out, thanks to the memory hole, people won’t even remember that place where people were free, it will just be that eternal now where the Party is always right.
That’s the true inheritance that has been (and is being) squandered. And it’s been going on since before the days of Woodrow Wilson.
And thank heavens, now we have a President who is fighting for us and for our freedom, and what do we discover? We discover how many of our politicians are sellouts, on the take, including in “our own” party.
And it turns out they’re at the top of the list of the ones who have been trading our futures, our freedom, our inheritance as Americans - for a quick buck.
That make more sense? I hope so.
Yes, though if everyone is guilty and responsible, no one is.
We really have had bad policies, often out of WWII and never updated, as well as all the bought-off corruption in government for generations now.
Trump is doing heroic work re: trade, currency, IP and the like, but coming up woefully short on understanding the issue of immigrant labor in the country. He is focused on the Dow and returns to investors without recognizing how policies to help that are hurting our country’s workers.