Posted on 07/04/2011 7:57:01 PM PDT by Typical_Whitey
The greatest generation gave their blood and treasure, died on far away beaches and foreign lands, so that a Nazi dictator and a crazed totalitarian Emperor would not control the world and steal freedom and liberty from their children.
In their day they saw the threat for what it was and they gave selflessly, so that their posterity would enjoy the same freedom that they had grown up with, the same freedom and liberty that defines America.
We should never forget that same generation had grown up in the after effects of the Great Depression, a generation that understood what real poverty and suffering were, not a generation relying on food stamps, EBT cards, section 8 housing, WIC and Welfare checks where poverty means you have to give up HBO and CINEMAX because the government won't pay that part of your cable bill, but you still need your mobile phone in case you got to call 911. No that greatest generation understood the risk and rewards of hard work and honest living.
The question before us today is this, will the children and grandchildren of these selfless American heros rise to the occasion, and once again identify the existential threat for what it is and give selflessly, by allowing the entitlement programs, that are destroying our economic prosperity, to be reformed or to even be ended?
Or, will this generation prove itself a bunch of mindless fools, following politicians that spout corrupt arguments about a social compact and then demand that their constituents reward them with votes, as they promise programs and benefits like free healthcare, free education grants, no interest loans, mortgage modifications, more government bail outs, Stimulus, welfare and handouts, rewards for irresponsible behavior, dream acts to give amnesty and more free stuff to encourage illegal migration to the U.S., a platform of just vote for me and its all free?
It could be very easy for many to fall into this trap of selfishness and pin the costs on the future generations of taxpayers by forcing them to pay off this huge mountain of interest accruing debt, to continue to fund their retirement liabilities unchecked and unchanged to the detriment of the entire nation and possible collapse of the U.S. currency and of America herself.
Hitler and Tojo have been replaced by incompetent governance. The stakes could never be higher.
I think all the talk about the “Greatest Generation” is bunk. Every generation has its heroes. I fought in Vietnam and 58,000 comrades did not come home. Most were Boomers and they were a part of their own “Greatest Generation.” Give it a rest.
Shouldn’t this be in Spanish because of the irreversible destruction of our nation, and loss of our culture and future, caused by the 1965 Immigration Act?
One thing which always amazed me about the greatest generation was the way they were building all of those beautiful ships and aircraft in 43 - 45, and then went straight back to building the same horrible ugly cars and houses the day WW-II ended. I’ve never heard or seen an explanation or theory for that one.
Most of the vast, individual crushing legislation that you hate, was thought up, written and passed by the “ancients”, and what they didn’t pass, their radical Supreme Courts did for them.
They should be called The Greediest Generation. Nothing more than a bunch of caterwauling freeloaders.
Tom Brokaw’s book title and formulation about “The Greatest Generation” did a terrible injustice. If there is such a thing, then the greatest generation in U.S. history is the one that founded our nation.
Should have let Hitler win. Then at least we wouldn’t be forced to blame ourselves for the quasifascist state we’ve become.
“the greatest generation in U.S. history is the one that founded our nation.”
You are so right. Where are today’s Washington, Jefferson, Adams, Madison, Paine, etc? In a country of 300 million the best we could come up with for the 2008 presidential election was McCain and 0bama? God help us. We are headed for “Idiocracy.”
I fought in VN, too. We did a pretty good job for what we had to deal with and under the circumstances.
What I was talking about took place between roughly 1935 to 1975.
By the time of Reagan the worst of things had slowed as the silents and the boomers replaced the older generations.
Plenty of bad things were and still are happening and being passed, but nothing like the 40 or 60 years of the ancients, they destroyed not only our nation, but they and their foreign counter parts destroyed the rest of Western Civilization.
No they didn't, they passed the immigration law to replace the American people, with third world people, and create a new, exotic, impossible to govern, impossible to unite, never to be American again pool, of conflicted humanity with no commonality.
They broke everything during their lifetimes.
LOL, I don’t have my facts wrong, they passed the 1965 Immigration act and there are some things that cannot be undone once passed, that is one of them, it was a poison pill.
Those generations made vast, sweeping, profound, irreversible changes in our nation that created government unions, SS, nationalized education, emptied the mental institutions and created homelessness, gave us Vietnam, broke up our cities and communities, swept the federal government into every facet of our lives. Many things can not be rolled back once they create a big enough constituency, that is why they wrote the law to replace the existing voters with democrat voters by importing them.
Do you really think that you could return the immigration laws to be what they used to be?
“No they didn’t, they passed the immigration law to replace the American people, with third world people,”
That was Ted Kennedy’s bill, passed along with the 1965 Civil Rights Act. Probably the bill with the most lasting consequences for America.
Yep, but really it was a JFK goal that Ted finished for him, and it was the end of America, we will never have a majority electorate that will vote as Americans did for the first 150 years.
By the way, core America still votes as it always has, they just don’t have the numbers anymore.
I don’t know why you’re blaming the WWII generation for Ted Kennedy’s immigration bill.
If you read the debates when it was being considered you’ll find that Kennedy and his staff, who wrote the bill, lied through their teeth when they described the bill. You can fault the Congress who failed to vet it and then voted for it, but it’s hardly something that was endorsed by the public at large. It was a very dishonest bill.
The Presidents JFK, Johnson, the Congress, the Senate, more than half the voters, were all of the older generations.
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