I don't know quite what to think about this. I put myself through college, got a decent job, supported myself, paid my taxes, voted in every election, paid my dues, supported every worthwhile charity to the best of my ability, am active in the community, took care of my parents as needed, married a fine man, am helping to raise my grand children..............selfish? I don't think so.
I can't stop what the federal government is doing as much as I would like to. It's not my fault. Bite me!
Yeah! The ranter got the 60's, 70's, 80', and 90's right, but he he fails to understand the fifties. A large number of men of that generation came back from the service with a desire to get an education. Many did, by sacrificing and struggling. Then we got good jobs, married, had families (the 60's and 70's generations) and did what we had to do to make a life after the disastrous 40's. We do not look back on our generation as unambiguously innocent, however. As vets, we had been around, seen a lot and learned much more.
It is difficult for us to understand what happened to the following generations, but I put it down to the malevolent influence of the socialists/commies that infested higher education, and still do. Our grandkids are still being served up socialist ideology in grade school, high school and college. The result has been the "stained blue dress generation" (what an appropriate symbol for the clintinoids out there!) and political, economic and societal chaos.