No Boomer voted for LBJ and his overwhelming liberal majority in ‘64. Johnson started Medicare, created SS Disability benefits, funded a war and massive new social programs by “creative” bookkeeping and thereby set up the oil shocks of the early ‘70s. Nixon signed off on creation of the EPA, but with a Dem congress, all he could really do was to force some minor concessions inadequate to stop the abuses it portended.
The Gen Y hacks just don’t want to blame the really old folks and put the blame where it mostly lies - the generation that won WWII also placed unprecendented faith in the central government. We are all paying the price for it now.
As a bonus, the lie that FDR helped mitigate suffering from the Depression (instead of seeing that his villifying business actually extended and worsened it) was the media’s first major statist victory - and it is paying dividends to this very day.
Obama’s scapegoating of business should be laughed at by all but a fringe, but at least half of the population agrees with him - at least to some extent. Credit for this failure (or strategy) goes to both the media and the public education lobby.
Boomers have been in power for the last 20 years. What have they done to cut back spending? Cut back the power of government? As posted, the Government back in 1992 only had 7 million people and now has around 39 million people on it’s payroll. That’s all boomers.
Sorry, that was a viable excuse back in the 90s, but that was close to 20 years ago now. Time to start asking why the boomers are addicted to increasing the size of government on their watch.