The Greatest Generation-
“That generation somehow managed to do all right for themselves.”
Horsehiite-
Their crooked parents voted for an EFFIN COMMUNIST for President 4 times!
The “Greatest”s that come home, physically and mentally intact, had the world by the ballllls.
They started in a world where the US was the only thing standing.
Beautiful women from around the world would marry you, and put up with all kinds of garbage even if you were an otherwise worthless slug just to get here.
Minorities and women were pushed aside in the workplace just for you.
GI Bill gave you free college.
VA mortgage essentially gave you, a nearly free house.
Industrial Union jobs with pensions.
Taxes were nearly ZERO for the average working man (one income was enough).
Everything was being built, NEW everywhere, not the rundown crapola that is there today.
NYC was safe-
California was truly the Golden State.
This list could go on and on.
It was golden if you were a white, healthy, male veteran with just a little built of drive.
Black? Screw you.
Women? Hubby could beat you and his Vet buddies on the force would let it go.
Mental health impaired from the war? Plenty of Nut Houses to lock you up in.
Could start an essential business with a dollar and a dream. Now that’s just the Lottery slogan.
Go ahead, Flame away.
You had your turn, raised a bunch of the original spoiled brats (Boomers), and very nearly wrecked the hole thing.
NEVER FORGET IT.
Don’t worry, we’ll fix it, you just remember to say “Thank You”.
“You had your turn, raised a bunch of the original spoiled brats (Boomers), and very nearly wrecked the hole thing.
NEVER FORGET IT.
Don’t worry, we’ll fix it, you just remember to say “Thank You”.”
They are almost all dead, your inferiority complex is wasted on them.
yeah, boomers ran this country into the ground, and it will be us millenials who will need to cut their own benefits while ramping up taxes to pay for boomer social security and medicare benefits.
that’s life and there’s no changing our historical deficit problems now, but i’ve basically stopped listening to boomer political advice seeing as how all of this is their fault to begin with.
Horsehiite-
My dad, didn’t have the world by anything. He had a new wife and new kid. We lived in an apartment that looks like the Honeymooner’s set. Livingroom/bedroom with a Murphy bed, bathroom and kitchen. He did get a white-collar job that required him to work 5 1/2 days a week. Wasn’t able to afford a new car until ‘49. Buying a large bottle of beer for Friday night card games with friends was a luxury.
Companies were required by law to reinstate jobs to veterans. If women took their place during the war, they had to be let go. Same would be true if a minority filled the job.
VA loans were available and GI Bill did help pay for education for all veterans, white, black, or tan. My parents weren’t able to afford to buy a house FWIW. Our home had one radio, one telephone and when we could afford it, one TV. By today’s standards we were living in deep poverty.
Income tax became a part of middle class life during WWII and didn’t go away. It took a long time to pay that war off. My mom worked full time, although most of my friend’s moms didn’t.
California was wonderful back then. I know, I was there. Was able the Pacific Electric from Long Beach to L.A. by myself from the age of 10. Stops in Watts. No problems, ever.
Wasn’t black, but black people in SoCal had life pretty good. Watts was poor, but yards were neat, homes were pretty much well-kept—the contrast with what we saw on TV from ‘back east’ was striking.
I don’t know that women were more abused then or now. The attitude was that what happened in the home was the business of the people who lived there. I don’t think that women who actually reported abuse were routinely ignored—but I don’t know.
As for spoiling the Boomers. Of course they did. They took the attitude that we would have all of the things that they had lacked. Was that a mistake—quite probably, but an understandable one.
I have no idea which generation you’re a part of, but I hope you and yours are able to “fix it”.
Filled with so much blind Hate and buying lock stock and barrel the Communist/Left lie of America...YOU aren’t going to “fix” anything. Hope you at least think your poison makes you feel better.