I simply stated a plain fact. The post-war generation was, indeed, the recipient of the largest generational inheritance. They did not, in turn, increase or preserve family wealth. Instead, they handed succeeding generations insurmountable debt.
You're defending the generation which gave us hippy communes, rejected Goldwater, embraced McGovern, handed South Vietnam over to the Soviets, and inaugurated the modern socialist welfare state when they swallowed LBJ's Great Society scheme.
Are you sure you want to want to get into a measuring contest to see who's more purely anti-communist? Nobody can hold a candle to GenX in that department.
Where do I sign up for my intergenerational inheritance, Comrade?
Being a Boomer I evidently qualify for this and was unaware and have yet to get paid. Time is running out!
“You’re defending the generation which gave us hippy communes, rejected Goldwater, embraced McGovern, handed South Vietnam over to the Soviets, and inaugurated the modern socialist welfare state when they swallowed LBJ’s Great Society scheme.”
Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society programs became law in 1965. Three years before any Boomer was old enough to vote.
Goldwater ran in 1964. The first election when any Boomer could vote was 1968. We had to be 21.
In 1972 the 18-29 age group voted 46% for McGovern, 52% for Nixon. Maybe your definition of “embraced” is off a tiny bit.
Boomers had to sign up for the Draft at age 18. The first Boomers were turning 19 when combat troops waded ashore in 1965. The greatest number of combat deaths were in 1968 and and vast majority were Boomers, 18-22 yrs old. Go look at the Wall sometime if you can pry yourself away from feeling sorry over your harsh life.
“””””””You’re defending the generation which gave us hippy communes, rejected Goldwater, embraced McGovern, handed South Vietnam over to the Soviets, and inaugurated the modern socialist welfare state when they swallowed LBJ’s Great Society scheme.”””””
LOL, you think children did all that? All that was done by adults, not children.
In 1964 the the old man of the boomer generation had just turned 18, the youngest boomers just turned 3, and they weren’t running anything and wouldn’t be for decades.