[microgood]

My grandpa was kind of old for the WWII generation, but the two things that distinguish them is that they paids as they went (WWII, the largest war in Human history, was paid off in 7 years), and they did not need government except to defend the homeland.

The Silent generation (my parent's) and mine (Boomer) are exactly the opposite, they care nothing about paying as you go and want government to do everything, including raise their children, and then have their grandchildren pay for it. People get the government they deserve and this is our legacy.

[ansel12]

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.