I admit I'm a Boomer, but I don't go along with the general Boomer mentality. I was a bit liberal in college, but my upbringing instilled in me a strong work ethic, common sense, and responsibility and accountability for my actions. I strongly disagree with policies and programs that are just gimmes. I made it a point to live below my means when I was working, so I wouldn't be dependent upon government and resent that I have to have Medicare. Never was a fan of the Kennedy dynasty or LBJ's Great Society.
There are several significant events that contributed to the stupidity, frivolity and selfishness of the boomer generation, of which I am a member. Nixon ended the draft in , I believe, 1973. Love it or hate it, the draft forced middle class and above men to to live with working class kids and was a great democratizing force and educational experience. The collapse of the Soviet Union in about 1991, gave us a false sense of security about the world and let us think pretty much only about ourselves and what was going on inside the US. We were slapped across the face on 9/11/01. There has also been an extraordinary dumbing down of the population caused primarily by our collapsed public schools which has encouraged several generations of Americans to not think very seriously about anything. I was self-employed for most of my working career and had a very different perspective of what was gong on compared to public sector workers who essentially had life time employment and golden parachute defined benefit retirement plans. Enough said. A topic that hundreds of books have been written about.
I've felt for many years that the passengers on United flight 93 did more to protect the country on 9-11 than the entire federal government. As to the general decline of the country NM is a representative example. After 90 years of single party Dem rule at the state level, it has an enormous welfare population and enormous public sector workforce. Those two groups, when combined, comprise over 50 percent of the electorate and are satisfied with being supported by government payments. The system will eventually collapse when states and the country run out of other people's money to spend.
I admit I'm a Boomer, but I don't go along with the general Boomer mentality. I was a bit liberal in college, but my upbringing instilled in me a strong work ethic, common sense, and responsibility and accountability for my actions. I strongly disagree with policies and programs that are just gimmes. I made it a point to live below my means when I was working, so I wouldn't be dependent upon government and resent that I have to have Medicare. Never was a fan of the Kennedy dynasty or LBJ's Great Society.
There are several significant events that contributed to the stupidity, frivolity and selfishness of the boomer generation, of which I am a member. Nixon ended the draft in , I believe, 1973. Love it or hate it, the draft forced middle class and above men to to live with working class kids and was a great democratizing force and educational experience. The collapse of the Soviet Union in about 1991, gave us a false sense of security about the world and let us think pretty much only about ourselves and what was going on inside the US. We were slapped across the face on 9/11/01. There has also been an extraordinary dumbing down of the population caused primarily by our collapsed public schools which has encouraged several generations of Americans to not think very seriously about anything. I was self-employed for most of my working career and had a very different perspective of what was gong on compared to public sector workers who essentially had life time employment and golden parachute defined benefit retirement plans. Enough said. A topic that hundreds of books have been written about.
I've felt for many years that the passengers on United flight 93 did more to protect the country on 9-11 than the entire federal government. As to the general decline of the country NM is a representative example. After 90 years of single party Dem rule at the state level, it has an enormous welfare population and enormous public sector workforce. Those two groups, when combined, comprise over 50 percent of the electorate and are satisfied with being supported by government payments. The system will eventually collapse when states and the country run out of other people's money to spend.