Posted on 02/06/2005 10:20:10 AM PST by qam1
Thanks.
Well, you have a point. Although SS had been around for some time before WWII, August 14, 1935. So to say that my Grandfather's generation was the one who passed it and saying they had a hand out because of the GI bill is really not fair.
And my rant isn't just with SS. And definitely not with the GI Bill. It is with things like Welfare, all of the money the Dept. of Ed. uses to hijak our school systems, and other agencies and entities that are bloated and overfunded.
The GI bill is probably one of the best things to happen to our military. It does two things that are quite effective. First, it gets people who otherwise wouldn't have had the opportunity to go to college in the military learning a trade. With this experience and their subsequent degree that they receive with the help of the money they EARNED from the GI bill (because to receive money from the GI bill you must first put into it) they can get much higher paying jobs.
Welfare on the other hand, does not motivate it's recipients to better themselves at all. It is purely a handout program and not a handup one like the GI Bill is.
Again, although I may not agree with some of your views, I do repect them. I still think that the last couple of generations (and of course not all of them) will be remebered for nothing more than bloating governemnt and creating dependencies on it. Outside of the War on Terror, which is being faught mostly by my generation (Gen Xers), the Baby Boomers don't have a lot of positives to show for themselves.
Well, it is kind of a negative stereotypical phrase denegrating the Baby Boomers as a bunch of whiners who want nothing more than their share of the "gubment cheese" as another poster so eloquently stated. I realize that there are many hard working and highly contributing citizens in the BB gen, but there are probably and equal amount of whiners that are doing all they can to ensure that the Feds become our defacto parents.
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