what was the world like for “Boomers” coming of age?
polio...we were saved by a vaccine we got as kids...but it didn’t help my neighbor in the iron lung. she got it years before the vaccine.
air raid siren tests. those were fun. 3rd Friday of the month. 11:00 am. at school, you get under your desk. and ponder nuclear war and death. wonderful developmental tool.
Communists....with a mission to take over the world. At home, politics dominated by terror. War everywhere it seems. Missile gap. Fear.
and then,
Vietnam.
So explain to me, if the Boomers messed everything up, why is it that it seems so much better now.
We got lucky and the Russians messed things up worse and lost.
Lets see. Aids, Iraq, Afghanistan, worst economy since the Great Depression, drugs, unwarranted wire tapping, teen pregnancy, a failing education system, just to name a few. Oh, yeah while you were crouching under a desk waiting for armageddon, kids today have to worry about the very possible reality of getting shot in their classroom. Communists? Okay. How about nameless, faceless, terrorist cells operating in the United States, willing to use planes as missiles to kill Americans. Better now? Home foreclosures, 13 million unemployment rate, selling off all our assets to foreign countries, outsourcing all our jobs overseas. We no longer manufacture (make things to export). Boomers are the figureheads of every major institution in the United States. It has been this way for at least the last three to four decades. So,you tell me if things are better today? Or would the younger generations have been better off, if they were raised by the greatest generation?