Bad Boomers
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Nothing too shocking here. What I find interesting is how easily the capitalist class gets the average citizen to buy into the notion that less government will lead to their prosperity, as if the Wagner Act, the SSA Act, the GI Bill, Medicare and progressive taxation didn’t create the middle-class to begin with.
I thought it an interesting collaboration of right leaning corporations and left leaning academia/legal in order to build the rationale to limit the individual.
Indecisi0n
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It's too early to read.
Some of that helped, some of that ultimately didn't. Long before those were implemented America was a place being built from the ground up. To prosper all you really had to do was find a need and fill it. Post WWII was the pinnacle of that as we were in a unique position through our factories to fill the world's needs as they rebuilt. Prosperity isn't peanut butter though, you can't spread it evenly. People can work hard, but not everyone is clever enough to figure out a new way to do things and capitalize on it. We can't all be an Edison or a Gates. As some got fabulously rich in our society the focus of our entertainment centered on the kinds of lives they must be living. An influence that many discount but I remember growing up so many older movies stories revolved around the lives of the rich. People could see others doing well and they wanted more for themselves. Unions started demanding more and more. We all know how everything has turned out. This constant push for more in this country, whether by the rich or poor or everyone in between, has lead us here. The takeaway I got from the above article is we can fix it with a much bigger, stronger government that's stripped of outside influences. Big government is a primary reason we're $20 Trillion plus in the hole. What will fix it, if anything can, is an acknowledgement that we don't need 8,000 sq ft homes, or even 4000 sq ft ones. We don't need the latest fashions. We can all live much simpler lives and our striving shouldn't be to make our bank accounts as fat as possible but to make sure everyone has an appropriate amount to eat and a decent roof over their heads. To get illegal drugs completely out of our lives. Eat healthier. It'll near happen. Nor will a big government make the difference because they've already proven that it's another vehicle by which some make themselves wealthy and to keep it going they create dependency. Nor will big corporations make the difference because they are set up to enrich the few at the expense of the many and resentment of that fuels hatred that wants to tear the whole thing apart. In other words don't expect easy answers, just strife. Luckily for some of us we got in when traditional pensions were still available, and are in a time where we can while away hours on these neat little inventions called tablets that connect you to these cool places like Netflix. If there was ever a better time to be poor in the world that must have been something because I can't imagine anything better than this.
Old Man Jingles
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That is a good article of a viewpoint.
TearsInRain
IE boogeyman
you know the boomers are a bad generation when even 4chan can agree how awful they 
ed up the country
ed up the country
Old Man Jingles
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4chan? Never mindyou know the boomers are a bad generation when even 4chan can agree how awful they
Stupid
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It will be fine
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Let it lie old man, don’t go down that rabbit hole. Nothing good comes from 4chan.
Old Man Jingles
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Yep.
I looked it up and it’s pretty stupid.
Old Man Jingles
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Agree
DriveInDriѵeOut
Inordinately Right
Babagounj
Strength through joy
Cryptic Emergency Alert Panics Oregon City’s Residents | Weasel Zippers
Look closely at the beer supplies in the picture. Like who are these people who panic and leave all the good stuff behind ?
El Correcto
god is dead
that whole capture the flag thing was pretty funny.
Old Man Jingles
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United States birth rate (births per 1,000 population per year). The Boomer segment for the years 1946 to 1964 is highlighted in red, with birth rates peaking in 1949 and dropping steadily around 1958 reaching pre-war Depression-era levels in 1963
Old Man Jingles
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United States birth rate (births per 1,000 population per year). The Boomer segment for the years 1946 to 1964 is highlighted in red, with birth rates peaking in 1949 and dropping steadily around 1958 reaching pre-war Depression-era levels in 1963
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Obviously, the answer to that question is that we did not get enough sex!.
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Not sure what you're getting at?United States birth rate (births per 1,000 population per year). The Boomer segment for the years 1946 to 1964 is highlighted in red, with birth rates peaking in 1949 and dropping steadily around 1958 reaching pre-war Depression-era levels in 1963
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