Most of the baby boom post WWII generation are hard working, entrepreneurial, patriotic and family oriented. We are the generation that was betrayed by the leftists and the political class. The people responsible for the financial meltdown are the politicians, the MSM and the arrogant government bureaucrats who are destroying the greatest economy in the history of the world.
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 by the "Greatest Generation" who first voted a Socialist into office, then let his ideas blossom and spread.
Amen, you said it better.
“The people responsible for the financial meltdown are the politicians, the MSM and the arrogant government bureaucrats who are destroying the greatest economy in the history of the world.”
Don’t forget the birth of the “Self” movement.
Ok..your an 18 years old male....ready for college or the work force.
You are told unless you go to college, or are married and have at least one child,you will be drafted into the army and sent to Viet Nam where US troops patrol rice paddies with orders not to fire their weapons.
Being a member of the Armed Forces is a little different then the Woodstock culture.
Get caught smoking grass in Bootcamp and they will run you through a gauntlet of hell.....And.... then there’s that whole thing about obeying orders, yes, even from someone dumber then yourself .
So , if that is not the life for you, What to do?...What to do?.....
America is a Great country, you always have options !
A. Get your Parents to pay your tuition, enroll in college for as long as there is a war,
( lots of multiple Masters & PHDs granted during that period) and become a Peace Activist.
B. Take out a Government student loan ( which you probably won’t ever pay
back) enroll for as long as there is a war ( lots of multiple Masters & PHDs
granted during that period) and become a Peace Activist.
C. Get someone to declare you exceptional and get a college grant or scholarship.
D.Marry someone and get her pregnant
E. Declare yourself a homosexual
F. Get a Doctor to say you have really bad eye sight.
G. Move to Canada
Failure to do any of the above and you will have to wait until Jimmy Carter is elected president before you come out of your hole.... But..... the good news is, you can spend the rest of your life as a professor, journalist or Government employee, validating with authority, your teenage decision and invalidating those who disagreed with you. Helps fight the guilt you may feel.knowing that staged Kent State image does not trump The Wall.