Ping list for the discussion of the politics and social (and sometimes nostalgic) aspects that directly effects Generation Reagan / Generation-X (Those born from 1965-1981) including all the spending previous generations (i.e. The Baby Boomers) are doing that Gen-X and Y will end up paying for.
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Given the precedig paragraph, I assume this is a misprint.
I also feel like I should point out that I did NOT teach my children the things this author complains about, and that some of the biggest spenders in Congress are NOT baby-boomers.(Robert Byrd, Ted Kennedy, Trent Lott).
I have vague recollection of something when I was a toddler. People were talking about something that had gone down in a nearby RCC. I looked into it later as an adult, asking my folks what had happened. About 1/3 of the congregation had left the church because they wanted to divert some amount of money from normal church funds to essentially give a bunch of people who smashed up their own neighborhood in a riot extra money above welfare. This 1/3 were a faction who had gotten some sort of taste of liberation theology and had been all fired by all the liberalization of Vatican 2. They were the youngest Silents and the oldest Boomers. They were people who, as young adults, had been influenced strongly by Pope Paul VI. So, when they didn't get their way they split away with a renegade priest and formed their own Marxist hippie "church." To me, John Paul II helped to turn around what was clearly the destruction of a key element of Western Civilization. I am not a RC, however, from the standpoint of what's important to Western Civilization, I pray that the next Pope is at least as conservative as John Paul II was. May he rest in peace.
Losing two men who were giants of history within one year. They were both at one time actors, powerful leaders, anti-communists, and both shot in 1981.