Posted on 12/26/2005 5:07:49 PM PST by AZRepublican
The valiant generation of Americans that fought World War II to preserve our liberty and western civilization was followed by the worst generation in the history of the country: the Baby Boomer generation born from 1946-1964.
The elite Baby Boomers turned the United States from the most prosperous countries on the planet to a country heading toward bankruptcy. It acquired a massive foreign trade deficit that will take generations to pay off. It deconstructed U.S. industries and the invited the invasion of millions of illegal aliens.
The Baby Boomers declared the Constitution to be a worthless piece of paper. It derided the notion that United States was unique place among the nations of the world and declared that it was only the equal of other countries, if not worse. The Baby Boomers mocked the nation’s Christian heritage and forced ordinary citizens to fight to keep Christmas in public places.
In David McClelland’s 1961 opus, “The Achieving Society,” McClelland shows that rises or declines in the “need for achievement” precede the economic rise or decline of a society. For him growing societies have a great deal of “need for achievement” This need for achievement plateaus as the society becomes wealthier and eventually declines. This precedes the eventual dissolution of the society. He notes that the wealth of the society prevents parents from developing self-reliance in their children. This lack of self-reliance leads to the children having a reduced need for achievement. Describing Athenian society, McClelland says,
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Yes, but the WWII types were at the peak of their voting activity from the 1950s until the 1980s. It was those "guzzling geezers" that gave us the Great Society and voted for a consistently Democratic congress.
but from what I have seen of this later generation, there is beaucoup reason for optimism.
Hey, we're in the midst of making sweeping generational generalizations. What are you trying to do, ruin the run? Geesh!
The boomers are the rat making its way through the American Rattler.
But for a group of people to write checks and create debts that will take the next ten generations to payoff, if ever, is beyond forgivable.
LOL !
damned baby boomers....off with their shorts...
You are displaying a real lack of demographic knowledge.
Streitz says:
"NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement) was the high watermark of the Free Trade movement. Passed by President Clinton,"
The agreement was initially pursued by free-trade conservative governments in the US and Canada, led by Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, and US President George H. W. Bush. There was considerable opposition on both sides of the border, but in the United States it was able to secure passage after President Bill Clinton made its passage a major legislative initiative in 1993.
Well Mulroney was born in 1939 , Bush in 1924 . But Clinton was born in 1946 , so I guess he's right and all us boomers are to blame .,
Streitz also says , (about Spielberg’s Private Ryan rewriting the accomplishments of the WWII generation.)
"Ostensibly written to eulogize the soldiers of WWII, it does nothing of the sort. It undermines their patriotism to the United States and willingness to risk and give their lives in its defense. Millions of Americans fought for in World War II, but it was not to enable their buddies to go home to their mother."
Maybe I'm wrong but isn't that why....
Well, I'm SURE that the complainers here already, and yet to come....did NOT accept any Christmas gifts from their *gasp* Boomer parents!
I mean really. THAT would be hypocritical and all.
The "Baby Boomers" also gave us 58,000 dead, and several million who served, in Viet Nam. I'm one of them. The greatest victory of the leftist s*itheads from the '60s, was, and is, their ability to portray themselves as the majority of my generation - and they weren't.
MACV, Class of '71
The baby boomers who were hippy dope-smoking commies are the segment who've shamed us.
The rest of us were/are as great as any generation ever.
It's all them filthy hippies with the peasant dresses, rocking roll music, long hair and fast cars. Do we really know what went on with the the Partridge family once they got on that bus with that Neal Cassady? Playing bongo drums and reading degenerate poetry, I can tell you that.
The fetishization of "The Greatest Generation" by the likes of TOM BROKAW is sick!
The leading edge of the baby boomers were fed to the Vietnam war. They were approximately 15 years old when that got underway. Too young to vote, but just in time to be cannon fodder for the bunch of leftist politicians from their parents generation.
The people writing these anti baby boomer articles are clearly deficient in math and history skills.
This guy must have been reading my homepage.
Hey, that's his market (and an affluent market it is) that you're talking about, pal!
Clearly.
My parents are Baby-boomers and they are good people.
Who are you to classify ALL baby-boomers not being any good?
Who gave you the HIGH PRIESTESS to judge?
My parents are self-reliant do NOT depend on anyone not even their children. They do NOT spend money put it ALL in the bank and OWN everything they have.
CAN YOU SAY THE SAME???
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