Posted on 02/24/2010 2:05:07 AM PST by Suvroc10
The Generation Zero Documentary—first previewed at the Tea Party Convention and CPAC—on Hannity last night confirmed that liberalism and the Baby Boomer generation were indeed the cause of the US financial meltdown, not to mention the worst recession since the Depression in the US. The brainchild of Steve Bannon and Dave Bossie, Generation Zero wasn't screened in its entirety on Hannity, but was broken down into several segments which were then analyzed in specific detail by Hannity and its creators. A pejorative reference to the Baby Boomer Generation that came of age in the drug-fueled and "If it feels good, do it" 60s, Generation Zero persuasively connects the dots between a dilapidation of both social and cultural values in the US that ultimately paved the way for the financial meltdown of 2008 and beyond.
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It was a good program, and for whatever reason the thread starter is just plain wrong, the film does not blame the whole of the Boomer Generation.
The points were:
-too much debt is being issued by Govt, the US Fed Gov owes 100 trillion, that bill begins coming due in 2011 when the first boomer years begin to draw Social Security
-bad trade deals have deindustrialized the US
-Wall Street abandoned Responsibility for fiduciary decisions, they keep profits, taxpayers pay losses
-Global Corporations no longer have American interests at heart
-Congress is basically a proxy for those corporations.
The thread starter has an agenda.
You can not cheat a honest generation.
An old quip about government spending: ‘A billion here, a billion there, next thing you know you are talking about real money’.
None of these programs worked from the get go. They were always drains on the economy at large. Taking money from productive people and giving it to unproductive. Over time the small initial spread began to open up into a flood.
If they had worked, there would of been no poverty. Now, almost everyone has been dragged into what I call financial communism. The union of debt.
Yeah, yeah, I know your house is paid off, bla, bla... Is your company clear? Who do they sell to, survivalist squirrel hunting pit dewellers? Everything you buy, burn, eat gets to you on a ocean of debt. More than oil, debt, finance, government paper money rules.
We’ve seen the debt note holders of GM, having Obama take the company away from them. The effective tax rate for productive workers is near 50 percent( local, state, federal, sales, and Fed deflation of savings ).
All these programs started as mere skin spots in the 30’s and have grown into huge growths since then.
I’ll tell you what though, kids today...they’re going to get it, and good and hard. It is nothing but financial/debt pedophilia to them. A broke, degenerated country lead by midgets.
And just who is trying to save this nation from wholesale destruction? The Xers?
The governments have been skinning alive companies, individuals and corporations for a hundred years. Why should investors feel any love?
Actually, investors were the one group that was singled out for sympathy, the documentary pointed out that they could be effectively wiped out and the board of directors and vp’s and presidents were legally entitled to keep their mansions, boats, and bonuses.
The OP does go through the documentary segment by segment, however the headline only tells a small part of the story.
Well, I must be a french prostitute then, 'cause I ain't no queer.
LOL! That’s great. One of my sons got his wrist broken trying to ride one of our horses by the name of Zeke. Zeke didn’t want to get ridden, so off he came.
BS! I can't even begin to list the ways you are wrong. Where in the hell did you get that from?
Oh, that's right. Those soldiers that liberated the camps. They thought that was socialism and thought it would be a good idea.
Or, the men who saw their friends die on a daily basis thought, "Socialism would never have allowed this."
What an asinine premise.
My 2nd oldest daughter was taught and shown fiscal responsibility. In one ear and out the other. Pisses her money away, lots of credit card debt.
Our government sets an obvious example for her.
Your daughter is just learning how our entire nation is being run. To hell with the mountain of debt, keep spending and borrowing like there's no tomorrow.
Somebody else will pay tomorrow for the party I'm throwing today.
And by the "Greatest Generation" who first voted a Socialist into office, then let his ideas blossom and spread.
Agreed, raybbr. Most of my fellow Baby Boomers have projected their own wrongdoing on the generations of our parents and grandparents. They’ve been that rebellious and disrespectful since the end of the ‘60s and early ‘70s. I don’t get along with many of them at all—only those who’ve honestly repented for being typical Baby Boomers and begun to try to live more as our better ancestors did.
Necessities and hardships will probably shape many young folks into doing better. Hopefully, they’ll plant most of those who are my age (and especially the first of us: those about 10 years older, give or take) before long and not look back.
who cares who, both Democrat and Republicans of the boomer generation have led the US to this disaster.
The US right now is a 550lb fat body that has a marathon to run.....
The replies on this thread for being a “conservative” view of the world, reaffirm my intent to leave the US after the 2010 elections. Conservatives right now are arguing about the placement of deck furniture on the Titanic after it hit the ice berg. If I do not see a solid debt reduction plan after the elections, on a Federal, State and local level, I am taking my time, talents and familly elsewhere. No sense being at the beach when a tsumami is in the forcast.
Good luck to the USA listening to Glen Beck and Rush, getting angry and doing nothing to resolve the issues. Flame away you angry boomers, the truth hurts. I find it sick in a way, many decent people here at Free Republic will spend hours here at FR and will not even attend the local school budget meeting.... By the way I have been a registarted convervative voter since the day I could vote and rarely missed an opportunity to vote.
Many of us need and deserve the probable general default in front of us. Let the government jobs fall, and the contractor fees and pensions, too. And may the rest be exiled to the countries of their preferences.
It’s us baby boomers who have been carrying three generations for the past three decades.
Amen, you said it better.
This “baby boomer” owes no money, has a credit card but keeps it paid off monthly and does not borrow money. There is no mortgage on the home I own.
CB — You lined up the kiddie experiences. What set the tone was the Adult experiences. The so -called “Greatest Generation” left terrible examples as adults being adults.
For one example: In the early 1970s, a series of Supreme Court decisions abolished most, if not all, of the common-law disabilities of bastardy, as being violations of the equal-protection clause of the 14th.
The Warren (b. 1891) and the Burger Courts (b. 1907) of 1953-1986 unleashed many very socially destructive forces. 1965’s Griswold v Connecticut set the stage for 1973’s Roe v Wade.
The “Greatest Generation” just back from the war did just about NOTHING to stop the onrush of national secularism, libertine sexuality and indeed in the period most ruinous for training new accountants and accountants of accountants — the late 1970’s and early 19780’s did not stop the rise of the fast-talking, dream-pushing coke heads of young turks, instead the old guard of that era PROMOTED them.
Similarly the old guard in education of the late sixties and early seventies promoted the administrators, deans and presidents most likely to bring on cultural deconstructionism, in sexuality and moral philosophy.
Pick up any Life or Look from the 50s and 60s — what is the the cultural leading edge — the opinion makers — pushing? Hugh Hefner tapped into that Adult-life ethos of the 1950s and 1960s. Those were the adults of Greatest Generation.
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