Posted on 05/29/2008 3:25:08 AM PDT by Nony
Here is how our baby-boom generation solves problems:
-- Recently, George Bush went to Saudi Arabia to ask the ruling House of Saud to pump more oil. That request had about as much chance of success as the Democratic-led congressional effort to “sue” the Saudis in American courts for their selfish “price-gouging.”
The current debate about energy in the United States has devolved into doing the same old thing—consume, don’t produce and complain—while somehow expecting different results. Congress talks endlessly about the bright future of wind, solar and new fuels, while it stops us from getting through the messy present by utilizing abundant coal, shale and tar sands; nuclear power; and oil still untapped in Alaska and off our coasts.
-- For the past five years, we fretted over a “housing boom” that had priced an entire generation out of the market. In response, government and lending agencies got “creative” by relaxing standards to allow shaky “first-time” buyers into the red-hot market of high-priced homes. Home-improvement TV shows proliferated on how to “flip” houses and buy “no-down-payment” properties.
When the bubble inevitably burst, cries of outrage followed about how “they” (never “we") caused a “depression” in housing. Our leaders shrieked about greedy lenders and incompetent regulators who foreclosed on us—never that the American people themselves caused much of the speculation problem, or that housing prices are finally becoming affordable again for new couples.
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Sorry Dr. Hanson, we feel your shame as a Boomer, and I know you're trying your turn at self-effacement. Nevertheless, I have to wonder if perhaps this is easier to do this than to face the very trans-generational reality of liberalism, that which you should be able to see fairly clearly in the mirror.
“For the past five years, we fretted over a “housing boom” that had priced an entire generation out of the market. In response, government and lending agencies got “creative” by relaxing standards to allow shaky “first-time” buyers into the red-hot market of high-priced homes. “
Hanson manages to get it backwards. “Creative lending” wasn’t a response to the housing boom, it’s the fuel that drove it.
“Boomers born in the late forties and early fifties came of age in the sixties and early seventies. They aided the commies and helped them kill our soldiers.”
That makes me wonder who you think it was filling the ranks of the Army in South Vietnam all those years. The first ‘boomers were 18 years old when the Gulf of Tonkin incident occurred in 1964. Who do you think was getting drafted to fight the Vietnam War?
As for ‘boomers aiding the commies, there certainly were some of those, too. What amazes me is that some, like Michael Medved, have managed to insinuate themselves into positions of influence in “conservative” circles.
That’s a disturbing picture - what’s it from? Reminds me to buy more gold.
Mike apparently had some kind of epiphinity some time back and became a middle of the road conservative. Somewhere between Sean and a middle of the road moderate. I'd give him a weak B overall. He is a decent man.
Beats me who photoshopped it, but I like it!
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