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Message: <blockquote data-quote="inactive" data-source="post: 1830466" data-attributes="member: 7488">Ridge,I still give a lot of credit to The Greatest Generation.The Baby Boomers grew up with parents who drove'55 Chevys with air conditioning, worked blue and white collar jobs that gave them pensions and benefits, color TVs and automatic clothes washers. They weren't spoiled, they survived the second World War, the Great Depression, and worked hard to get though it. They remember the poverty and rebuilding it took. They remember helping each other, Ike's high tax rates to pay off the war debt and build roads and infrastructure. My grandparents were possibly the most compassionate Democrats and also champions of personal responsibility I ever knew.The Baby Boomers grew up with this affluence, these niceties, but I'm not so sure they studied the toil and hardship their parents went through to get there. They want to claim things like Social Security and Medicare because they paid into them all their life, but they don't want it to go forward from there. They want to gripe about the state of roads and traffic and construction, but they are bitter anytime a bond issue comes to vote or federal stimulus money is being directed to fixed bridges and interstates. They gripe that people should pay their own way and borrow to attend college, but forget that their parents paid taxes enough that tuition rates were far more affordable back when they attended. I sure know a lot of 'boomers who want to accept all that was left for them, but leave nothing for the generations that follow.So the Greatest Generation had a lot of help and programs in their later years, but they were the ones who primarily built and funded those systems. I concede the post-war boom sure helped, but they and their politicians sure as hell could have squandered it (as happened with the late 90s economic boom).</blockquote>

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