[blade_tenner]

They also got to the troops coming home from WWII with the G I bill, subsidized tuition and low-interest rate home loans, with the idea that those from the working class should expect to be able to own homes and go to college.

America became great in the era before the concept of the weekend, workman’s comp, college tuition subsidies, retirement and unemployment checks. The real damage was done in postwar 40s and 50s... what happened afterwards was the inevitable consequence of this social engineering..

[oblomov]

I agree- it was the Statist Generation that did the damage.

[bobby.223]

very well stated.

[USALiberty]

America became great in the era before the concept of the weekend, workman’s comp, college tuition subsidies, retirement and unemployment checks. The real damage was done in postwar 40s and 50s... what happened afterwards was the inevitable consequence of this social engineering..

It is not politically correct to say it, but I will say it. The end of liberty started with the well-meaning act of abolishing child labor. That established the idea that the government -- and not parents -- should have the final say in what happens with children. If a FAMILY decides that a child should earn income rather than spend his/her days sitting listening to the Marxist indoctrination available in GOVERNMENT schools, why should ANYONE be able to interfere? Child labor lifted many families out of poverty in the days before the "poor" were expected to become wards of the state!