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To: driftless
"generation of spoiled brats" You're full of it.

No. I lived it and I saw it.

That is a generalization and it does not apply to ALL the Boomers but, taken as a whole, the Boomer generation marked the start of the decline of American society.

106 posted on 12/11/2005 9:28:51 PM PST by Polybius
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To: Polybius
That is a generalization and it does not apply to ALL the Boomers but, taken as a whole, the Boomer generation marked the start of the decline of American society.

You hit the nail on the head. (Funny how people can take such observations so personally.)

107 posted on 12/12/2005 3:51:55 AM PST by LouAvul
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To: Polybius

The "decline" started well before the sixties. Remember the welfare state was created during the FDR admin. All the leading leftist lights of the sixties, Chomsky, Zinn, etc. were virtually all pre-boomers. We've always had a certain number of far leftists. The fact is that as the population reached a certain number, the weight of the leftists began to tell. To blame boomers for the fact that the culture started to go downhill with their generation is like blaming them for dutch elm disease. The rot started a lot further back. If people from one generation were transplanted back or forward to another, they'd behave about the same. There are spoiled brats in every generation, but if todays Gen Xers or Yers think that boomers were spoiled, they should have grown up in my house, in my neighborhood, in my city. If they'd had, they'd think different.


117 posted on 12/12/2005 1:03:06 PM PST by driftless ( For life-long happiness, learn how to play the accordion.)
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