Posted on 05/30/2004 6:41:22 PM PDT by Lando Lincoln
Must have been bad parenting.
Not the only time.Other wars have done the same.
The Great Depression was global and many countries came out of it in a year or two.
The greatest generation made tons of money in the 1950s, and simply gave their kids the best time of their lives...and it all came back to haunt them in the mid-60s.
I am sick of this Greatest Generation moniker. Its main purpose is to excuse TGG of their penchant of voting for the Government to loot on their behalf from The Not-So-Great Generations.
Their modesty and bravery is an example for us all.
Their modesty and bravery is an example for us all.
Interesting perspective, but dead wrong.
"'I've had discussions with some of my liberal acquaintances who say that FDR helped get the USA out with his New Deal. I could have sworn that there has been a lot of evidence that FDR's policies actually prolonged the Great Depression until WW2 came about, do you know anything about this?'
The Great Depression was global and many countries came out of it in a year or two."
Not to mention war just about always boosts the economy - if it's long enough. WWII was that for that SOB FDR. And it wouldn't surprise me at all if that SOB let the Japs bomb Pearl Harbor to surreptitiously put us in war that would actually stop the Depression and mask the likelihood that all his commie methods didn't work.
I agree w/you, so much. Glad some1 else said it so I don't have to type. I'm not a "boomer" either.
In the words of a dying Captain Miller in savingprivateryan:
"Earn this."
We can live as they did, with duty and honor and service and, yes, humility.
YES! Thank you.
The term "greatest generation" is grating on my nerves. Brokaw, I'm sure, is so proud of himself for "coining a phrase" that now thousands are using. I'm sure he gets alot of self-satisfaction from that little contribution to society.
The Greatest Generation (of the US) was the Founding Generation.
2 problems w/the WWII generation. They already had a benevolent dictator who was imposing Commie ideas and were well on the way to accepting this as the proper approach to life. Thanks to the war I'm sure FDR was deified as a great leader so that cemented the mentality that the commie approach was the way to go. So actually, the socialist voting already had reached a floodgate before the war, not after.
Other problem is that this "GG" created the Worst Generation. Since others didn't create really bad generations, this is another barometer of their basic character. They followed the new exciting approach of Dr Spock like sheep, abandoning common sense, and raised way too many spoiled rotten brats.
While there are of course problems in every generation and no populace is ever perfectly in unison, the Founders virtually created the very antithesis to Marxism, and raised another generation that largely stepped up to fight the 2nd American Revolution, and even stopped the Barbary Pirates in their tracks while the superpowers allowed the latter to bully them w/bribery.
There's no way our Founders don't deserve the moniker.
Well, perhaps I just don't know what is meant by "biggest", but if it means "important", it's not so. Frankly, anything to do w/the creation of the US is probably the most important thing in the last 500 years. And that's not a boast, that's a God's-honest assessment.
Thanks for pointing that out, I feel offended. Who can I sue?
Are we into ancestor worship now? Let's just thank them for giving the world the atomic bomb and leave it at that.
Unfortunately, many on the left have hit the snooze alarm and rolled over.
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