Posted on 11/14/2011 9:11:04 AM PST by Publius804
I prefer “Dazed and Confused”.
I wasn’t aware of that movie. The only Dazed and Confused I remember is the Led Zepplin song.
It’s really good, it felt like I was back in 1976 just watching it....good soundtrack.
You’re not looking at the trees and missing the forest, you have a pine needle in your eye and can’t even see a single tree. I guess the level of slugs suits you. ;)
A lot of people also forget about the later end of the boomers, which along with the early Generation X'ers, tend to me some of the most conservative voters in this country. Generally those born in the 1960's and early 70's. It starts to wane a big with the tail end of the X'ers born in the mid-late 70's (my age) and then goes bigtime left with the Millennials from around 81 onward.
Neither were any of the Kennedys, LBJ, Mario Savio, Saul Alinsky, Betty Friedan, Gloria Steinem, Morris Dees, Huey Newton, Jesse Jackson, John Lennon, James Brown, Marvin Gaye, or Paul Kantner/Grace Slick. Neither were Timothy Leary or Baba Ram Dass or the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. I don't think Jim Jones was, either -- though David Koresh most certainly was.
Boomers start in 1946. Sandusky was born in 44.
Thanks for posting. Mead nails all the trash of my generation quite accurately.
Personally I don't really think all this "Boomer/gen x, gen Y, clicker" or whatever is really all that helpfull. Like all ways of dividing people up into nice neat little boxes it is a sweeping stereotype approximation anyway. Not all boomers are selfish, not all gen Y's are technophiles. Real people surprise us all the time.
One more thing. As the good book says "there is nothing new under the sun". There have been generation gaps since time began. Every generation blames the one before for all of its problems, and every generation bemoans the shortcomings of the one following. The generations now will fail just as badly as the boomers. Just in different ways :)
I get paid on the 4th Wednesday, is that the day before Thanksgiving?
I used to squander my money on wine, women and song. Now that I'm older I don't drink wine at all, I've been happily married to the same woman since I was a baby and am happy with that arrangement and I can't sing worth a hoot.
I still find uses for my S.S. check though, so all you youngsters out there, keep on working, I'm a greedy old bast*rd.
“The Boomer generation is a faithless one, they embraced the refection of Christ and filled this society with the false hope of the government will fix all. They embraced socialism and made it their God. They embraced the killing of babies, free love, drugs and drunkenhess, and all manner of greed. They hated the innocence of the fifties, and mock it to this day. They rejected any moral compass, but their own-—the rejection of Christianity will not be easy to recover from.”
Words worth repeating.
The man you referred to as proposing the modern withholding scheme was Beardsley Ruml. He was with Macy's, not Monkey Wards.
So far as I can tell, none of the people responsible for the above actions were Boomers.
All planned starting with Woodrow Wilson, a “progressive” another word for communist. They knew the only way to take America down was from within, it has taken a hundred years, no surprise “the chldren of the wicked are more committed than the children of light.”
They have systematically been grinding America down with attacks on the family, the church and education. This moment, this President is their chance at long last to “fundamentality change our nation” and then begin destroying anyone who gets in their way. That is historical, many will die under their form of government.
“Income tax withholding began in 1862 with the withholding of federal employees’ taxes. “
Lincoln was in many ways the father of modern big government.
“The man you referred to as proposing the modern withholding scheme was Beardsley Ruml. He was with Macy’s, not Monkey Wards.”
That’s the guy. I knew he came from the retail world. Interesting to learn that he was also one of the early proponents of “ functional finance or chartalism”, a practice associated with Keynes.
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