jazzplayer wrote:
For nearly my whole life (mid-50s born & mid-50s now), I have heard over and over from my parents' "Greatest Generation" how this or that and pretty much every social ill is the fault of "them damn hippies" and how their permissive values have ruined what would of course otherwise have been our perfect society. As somebody who just barely squeaked into the tail end of the hippie "movement" I have watched with some objectivity and hopefully learned a thing or two from my older hippie-aged siblings.
But now, here, even today, I find some old jerkoff moaning about how them damned hippies just messed everything up, again, and I feel compelled to finally call bullshit on that whole idea.
Yes, you guys did a fine job on Hitler and all, but are also the same morons that elected Nixon, Reagan and the Bushes, who were truly much more responsible for today's problems both fiscal and social than any marginal movement led by pop musicians could ever have been.
Yes, my parents are still alive, and my dad still asks me when am I going to cut my hair and quit playing rock and roll and get a real job. And I still either ignore him or tell him to bugger off. Some things never change...
(In case you couldn't tell, I, like others, find the Hog a convenient place to occasionally open the steam valve a bit... :wink: )
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Aren't the enlightend folks such as yourselves the ones that elected moral reprobates like JFK? LBJ? Carter? Clinton and Obama?
These folks did more to destroy this country than any foreign nation. Save for JFK who was a fiscal conservative, Who at least had some idea how economics work.
LBJ did more to harm the black comunity than the KKK could have dreamed o fwith his " Great Society".
Silly democrats appluad the greatest failures of political history.
Despite the historical record that lowering taxes increases economic activity and more people contribute to the US treasury, Democrats can't help but to continue the war on sucess, the war on the people that risk their capitol and livelyhood.
Democrats and their philosophy or equal outcome is doomed to failure and they simply lack the wit to see it.
Lower taxes increase income to washington, it works every time it is tried. Yet Obama and his ilk continue on this irelevent war on "the rich"
"The Rich" are the people that produce jobs.
No POOR people hire anyone.
Govenrment spending has been out of controlm for decades, Now with Obama record od spending this country in to the poor house makes it obvious to the casual observer he has no plans for any economic recovery.
IF we end up like Greece, Italy, Spain he will be happy.
Record dependance on the government is his goal and he is well on the way tom achieving this.
More people than ever depoend on government checks and the working class that foots the bill are getting smaller and smaller.
You democrats wanted change, you got it.
Merry Christmas
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