Wow, graduation sucks these days. Used to be pranks at the ceremony, uplifting speeches, parties and fornication afterward. Now its just nihilistic whining...yuck.
Very good.
How about a legacy of godlessness, hedonism, "not my responsibility", junk science, politcal correctness, and liberal guilt trips?
Ain't that the truth. I'm not apologizing for the MEEEE! generation any more than I'm apologizing for slavery.
The job now is not to raise them but to re-educate them and show the word of God and the founders to them.
Same old same old:
Jimmy Carter’s Malaise Speech, 1979
by Jimmy Carter
Good evening.
This is a special night for me. Exactly 3 years ago, on July 15, 1976, I accepted the nomination of my party to run for President of the United States. I promised you a President who is not isolated from the people, who feels your pain, and who shares your dreams and who draws his strength and his wisdom from you.
During the past 3 years I’ve spoken to you on many occasions about national concerns, the energy crisis, reorganizing the Government, our Nation’s economy, and issues of war and especially peace. But over those years the subjects of the speeches, the talks, and the press conferences have become increasingly narrow, focused more and more on what the isolated world of Washington thinks is important. Gradually, you’ve heard more and more about what the Government thinks or what the Government should be doing and less and less about our Nation’s hopes, our dreams, and our vision of the future.
Ten days ago I had planned to speak to you again about a very important subject — energy. For the fifth time I would have described the urgency of the problem and laid out a series of legislative recommendations to the Congress. But as I was preparing to speak, I began to ask myself the same question that I now know has been troubling many of you. Why have we not been able to get together as a nation to resolve our serious energy problem?
It’s clear that the true problems of our Nation are much deeper — deeper than gasoline lines of energy shortages, deeper even than inflation or recession. And I realize more than ever that as President I need your help. So, I decided to reach out and listen to the voices of America.
I invited to Camp David people from almost every segment of our society business and labor, teachers and preachers, Governors, mayors, and private citizens. And then I left Camp David to listen to other Americans, …
http://www.rightwingnews.com/speeches/carter.php
Same old same old:
Jimmy Carter’s Malaise Speech, 1979
by Jimmy Carter
Good evening.
This is a special night for me. Exactly 3 years ago, on July 15, 1976, I accepted the nomination of my party to run for President of the United States. I promised you a President who is not isolated from the people, who feels your pain, and who shares your dreams and who draws his strength and his wisdom from you.
During the past 3 years I’ve spoken to you on many occasions about national concerns, the energy crisis, reorganizing the Government, our Nation’s economy, and issues of war and especially peace. But over those years the subjects of the speeches, the talks, and the press conferences have become increasingly narrow, focused more and more on what the isolated world of Washington thinks is important. Gradually, you’ve heard more and more about what the Government thinks or what the Government should be doing and less and less about our Nation’s hopes, our dreams, and our vision of the future.
Ten days ago I had planned to speak to you again about a very important subject — energy. For the fifth time I would have described the urgency of the problem and laid out a series of legislative recommendations to the Congress. But as I was preparing to speak, I began to ask myself the same question that I now know has been troubling many of you. Why have we not been able to get together as a nation to resolve our serious energy problem?
It’s clear that the true problems of our Nation are much deeper — deeper than gasoline lines of energy shortages, deeper even than inflation or recession. And I realize more than ever that as President I need your help. So, I decided to reach out and listen to the voices of America.
I invited to Camp David people from almost every segment of our society business and labor, teachers and preachers, Governors, mayors, and private citizens. And then I left Camp David to listen to other Americans, …
http://www.rightwingnews.com/speeches/carter.php
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Steven Moore wrote pro-illegal alien ediotorials in the WSJ and because of them I quit The Club For Growth. I also cancelled my WSJ subscription recently as they fawn over Obama and Murdoch ruined the paper.
The Millenials, of course, are going to destroy us all.
I could take most of what he said seriously, up until this point.
$45 trillion net worth, my ass. The only way anyone could arrive at this conclusion is by not counting our future unfunded liabilities. If and when the day comes that foreigners stop lending to us, this claim will quickly be exposed as the mountain of B.S. that it is.
The judge said that we baby boomers have bequeathed to the “echo boomers,” “millennials,” or whatever they are to be called, a legacy of “greed, global warming, and growing income inequality.”
I thought it was the current generations, Y, X, and baby boomers (everyone old enough to vote) irresponsibly, selfishly, and arrogantly leaving future generations (my innocent children) enslaved to a mountain of debt. It is taxation without representation on future generations and it is completely immoral. They aren’t even old enough to defend themselves—yet. I have no doubt that they will hate past generations for squaundering the wealth and liberty of this great nation and enslaving them. I know I despise all those in my Grandfather’s generation who voted to enslave me to Social Security.
This subject seems to come up fairly often lately. But for anyone with some knowledge of US history and government the past forty to fifty years, they know that much of the change people now object to was implement by the Greatest Generation, in the years from about 1960 until about 1992.
The Boomers were not in positions of authority and influence enough to affect much change until the mid to late 1980s, and even later until they were a majority in Congress and had the first Boomer president in 1992.
My wife recently sent me an email. I am 60 and picture myself as the old man in this story.
*****A self-important college freshman walking along the beach took it upon himself to explain to a senior citizen resting on the steps why it was impossible for the older generation to understand his generation.
“You grew up in a different world, actually a primitive one” the student said loud enough for others to hear. “The young people of today grew up with television, jet planes, space travel man walking on the moon. We have nuclear energy, ships, and cell phones, computers with light speed ...... and many more”
After a brief silence, the senior citizen responded as follows.
“You’re right son. We didn’t have those things when we were young... so we invented them. Now you arrogant little sh*t what are you doing for the next generation?
Where’s a rotten tomato when you need one?
It almost hiccoughed the entire auditorium and I felt someone give me an attaboy pat on my shoulder.
After the pledge, I turned around a saw a middle aged woman that looked at me and said, "I got it"
Ping
My generation IS environmentally responsible for trashing the present, but not for reasons the author may have had in mind. Because of the antinuclear protests my generation were famous for, we're paying $3 for gas today and energy independence is even more of a pipe dream now than it was back then.
LOL! Oh, so true!