[Huck]

Has our country gotten better or worse since the boomers?

[paulycy]

Has our country gotten better or worse since the boomers?

Speaking as a late boomer, I say worse. I hate what the leftist boomers have done to this country over the past 50 years.

[Clemenza]

Depends. We do have lower income taxes and less financial controls. The problems we have, IMHO, are due more to a festering (and breeding) underclass (made worse by illegal immigration), as well as the fact that much of the "middle class" (especially in places like New Jersey) is dependent on the state bureaucracy for sustenance (whether as government employees or in positions dependent on transfer payments, like nursing and teaching).

Cultural rot? Well, when my grandparents were growing up in Jersey City, you had open prostitution and widespread illegal gambling. Political corruption was just as bad as it is today.

Another big difference is the fall of the WASP elite, which had more of an emotional/cultural stake in the nation then that which replaced them. Of course, such folks didn't much care for my ancestors (the restrictions on immigration passed in the 1920s EXPLICITLY targeted eastern and southern Europeans), but at least they didn't seek to actively undermine national identity and security.