My god.........what an outstanding rant...could not have put it better myself!!!
Thanks for the post; fun and in my opinion accurate read.
rebuilt this country from the ruins of those catastrophic events
Our country was in ruins after WWII?
He said it all very well. He has a true conservative perspective.
WOW I'm speechless. However, I believe that every generation has its cancers this one was just allowed to grow, way too much.
Oh, puh-leeze. The "Greatest" Generation originated some of our biggest and most deeply entrenched Big Government programs (e.g. Social Security).
Even stipulating that the latter figure would be significantly higher than the former if both were converted to constant dollars, failure to do so in the first place is just plain dishonest.
AS I PASS through my incarnations in every age and race, I make my proper prostrations to the Gods of the Market Place. Peering through reverent fingers I watch them flourish and fall, And the Gods of the Copybook Headings, I notice, outlast them all
We were living in trees when they met us. They showed us each in turn That Water would certainly wet us, as Fire would certainly burn: But we found them lacking in Uplift, Vision and Breadth of Mind, So we left them to teach the Gorillas while we followed the March of Mankind.
We moved as the Spirit listed. They never altered their pace, Being neither cloud nor wind-borne like the Gods of the Market Place, But they always caught up with our progress, and presently word would come That a tribe had been wiped off its icefield, or the lights had gone out in Rome.
With the Hopes that our World is built on they were utterly out of touch, They denied that the Moon was Stilton; they denied she was even Dutch; They denied that Wishes were Horses; they denied that a Pig had Wings; So we worshipped the Gods of the Market Who promised these beautiful things.
When the Cambrian measures were forming, They promised perpetual peace. They swore, if we gave them our weapons, that the wars of the tribes would cease. But when we disarmed They sold us and delivered us bound to our foe, And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "Stick to the Devil you know."
On the first Feminian Sandstones we were promised the Fuller Life (Which started by loving our neighbour and ended by loving his wife) Till our women had no more children and the men lost reason and faith, And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "The Wages of Sin is Death."
In the Carboniferous Epoch we were promised abundance for all, By robbing selected Peter to pay for collective Paul; But, though we had plenty of money, there was nothing our money could buy, And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "If you don't work you die."
Then the Gods of the Market tumbled, and their smooth-tongued wizards withdrew And the hearts of the meanest were humbled and began to believe it was true That All is not Gold that Glitters, and Two and Two make Four And the Gods of the Copybook Headings limped up to explain it once more.
As it will be in the future, it was at the birth of Man There are only four things certain since Social Progress began. That the Dog returns to his Vomit and the Sow returns to her Mire, And the burnt Fool's bandaged finger goes wabbling back to the Fire; And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins When all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for his sins, As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will bum, The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Baby boomers were raised by parents who grew up and had their beliefs formed during the Great Depression. These parents experienced the new practice of socialism as a very positive thing. When a generation which had been overwhelmingly self-reliant and hard-working fell upon extremely hard times that few of them knowingly had any hand in creating, government began stepping in to save them from actual starvation. They all viewed this as a good thing, because they rarely saw it being abused, and it was on a modest scale. Unfortunately, they ended up transmitting the notion that socialism is wonderful to the baby boomer generation, who grew up with both a sense of entitlement to taxpayer-funded handouts and of socialism as inherently good.
The Greatest Generation was the one that included the Founders of this country.
The "baby boomers" are the "parasite generation" that feed off the good works of the "greatest generation".
In the novel Atlas Shrugged there was a character by the name of Wesley Mooch. He was the consummate bureaucratic parasite. A good example of today's "baby boomer" liberals.
..What would the world be like if the Greatest Generation had shrugged?.