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After watching this video I am certain of one thing, most of America knows nothing about their national history. The Vietnam war was not a product of the boomers generation, it was the work of the old guard left over from WW2 that needed the $$$ that war represented, a definite holdover from those great money making days of previous wars. We were trapped into that war just like all young people have been throughout history. Corporate greed drives most wars, that is the fact and that is what has to change.
No "generation" of people are guilty of anything, well, maybe we all are a bit guilty of the ignorance of history. The statement made by the person posting the diatribe on the apparent lack of a work ethic on the part of young American workers is simply a singular view, and nothing else. It would be a long reach to make THAT statement attributable to any "generation".
False, of course. Every generation blames the preceding generation for screwing everything up and the preceding generation blames the next generation for being lazy little turds.
I don't want to categorize every boomer (I'm 35, born in '78).
-The ones I've seen struggling financially for the last 5-10 years, they simply didn't PLAN. I think that word "plan", didn't occur to them back in 1983 or 1987. Living hand to mouth, or living pay check to pay check, it doesn't work over LONG - PERIODS - OF - TIME (i.e. 20 or 30 years).
At some point in your mid 30's, late 30's, early 40's, you need to sit down and PLAN.
My parents friends who are retired, it's like they planned everything all along. I.e. retirement accounts all set up. Wills, or a trust, the right insurance, etc.
The ones who aren't retired, they've lived in kind of a vacuous world. LOL, and some wonder why their kids are kind of lost.
True the baby boomers are stealing but not nearly as much as the poor.
Before the boomers took over power positions, would it have been acceptable for a Dow Jones company like GE to not pay taxes?
Is that worse than a poor person collecting food stamps?
I'm asking this as a generally pull-yourself-up sorta guy. The same Fox News propaganda that has people believing the economy is bad when the stock market is running six years straight has people's anger grossly misdirected right now.
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