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This 'worst generation' has really screwed up American society yet they have the gall to blame the producers of society who work and labor through free enterprise to keep advancing our country. The conceit and self indulgence of these 1960s radicals has resulted in the intolerant speech codes that now pervade our college campuses as well as society's march towards a socialistic big government state.

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?.

In Atlas Shrugged, I remember the heroine Dagny Taggart referring to your termed 'parasitic generation' as 'looters.' Looters basically are people who bite the hand that feeds them. Without the producers, the looters would be desolate and they would die of starvation; yet the looters are resentful, hateful and envious of the producers. The 1960s dope smokers at Woodstock who are now in positions of power in our colleges and government institutions are the 'looters' that Ayn Rand aptly describes in Atlas Shrugged. Here's to Dagny...