How Baby Boomers Broke America
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Not the war itself. It was stupid. But to abuse and attack soldiers crossed the line.
Maybe if the parents would stop selling their food stamps for drugs and lottery tickets, the kids could eat better. Maybe?
We are on the verge of being overpopulated to the point where we can't sustain. More social programs , longer life spans , lack of education (especially at home) , crap immigration regulations. This is how we get where we are. Reality is somebody is eventually gonna have to start getting left behind.
You must fall for a lot of bullshit.
Sad that America is "okay" with it being the children.
No society in the history of the WORLD has ever existed without poor people, and a socioeconomic class that is disadvantaged. It has never happened. And it is impossible to eliminate it.
I agree with @KisteK that it is pathetic, but unfortunately, it is a product of society. It can never and will never be eradicated, or even diminished. It is what it is. It's sad, I hate it, but it's inevitable.
As was said earlier in this thread, Socialism has a 100% fail rate. Socialism does not work. It's that simple. And since it doesn't, you will always have rich, and you will always have poor. Some of those poor are going to be children unfortunately. Is it okay? No. But it is a fact of life.
The fact of the matter is that we are doing more now for poor people and poor families than has ever been done for any poor class of people in the history of mankind.
Is it enough? No. But as I said earlier, it will never and can never be "enough".
anon_0astpxev9h4gk
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Pretty much, I feel like anyone my or your age on to 1990 is in the same realm. After that year, things change a bit, especially for people ‘91 on, their teen years were during Bush jr’s Second term.
It's our version of evolved Darwinism within our society. The smallest and weakest get taken advantage of. Think about 80-100 years ago how frequently kids were abused , sexually assaulted , given up for adoption and never knew who there real parents ever were. Stories of foster homes that were more like concentration camps for kids. We have given people rights to have kids that have no business with children. Go to @LetsGoDuke301 "Wood You Wednesday" this week to see it even be glamorized.
Not saying you glamorized it. But when the trial was going on it was glamorized.
anon_0astpxev9h4gk
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Yeah, I’m mostly talking about the generational divide of lack of resources and when more technoglical advances came into fruition. Which is expericed with 80s kids and early early 90s.
You don't think it can even be diminished? That seems tantamount to saying we shouldn't even try. In fact, there are an awful lot of places where this reads to me like a justification for not trying.
There is no perfect system. We've settled on capitalism being the closest. A lot of the things we are doing for the poor, though, borrows from socialist principles. A lot of our infrastructure comes from that, too. Perhaps what is really closer to being perfect is doing our best to incorporate the best concepts from different economic philosophies. Maybe it's the purist approach that leads to more failings and a hybrid is the way to go. Frankly, people are unduly hostile toward the very word "socialism," and I find that that hostility is a pretty strong indication that they don't fully understand it.
I can't vouch for the accuracy or objectivity of this article or site, but there is reason to suggest some stories of the abuse soldiers experienced returning from Vietnam may be exaggerations. There's the obvious fact that anti-war protesters had nothing to do w/ insufficient VA services, so...
I don't doubt some soldiers were spit on and called "baby killers," but if it was widespread, there should be more concrete evidence of it. The New York Times, I will vouch for.
Well, I am short.
You got it. The funny thing is when I moved from Corporate to small business, I was dropped as a healthy 35 year old male in Arizona by Blue Cross. Dropped completely. I mean...what world do I live in these days?
It cost us the SS trust fund. It cost me a bunch of friends. It ruined my late teenage years.
What did the U.S. get out of the Vietnam war? 57,000 dead, millions of lives ruined, a bunch of dead friends for me and billions of dollars wasted for nothing.
Hell, all the protesters had it right.
Bernie is a bona file Communist. Hell, he took his first honey moon to the U.S.S.R. to worship at the feet of Stalin.
I can't believe that folks come out of college without studying how horrible Marxist socialism is for any society; they must kill millions to establish it. Yet Bernie is trying to sell it to a country that has over 300,000,000 guns in private hands. Let's see how that works out.
What blows me away is the fools that agree, stupidly and totally on never reading the history of the 20th Century.
anon_0astpxev9h4gk
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Show me where Time Magazine touched you, Bert.
PUKE!Thankfully we have the right man to make us great again.
Agreed. We, and almost every advanced society in world history, already adopt a hybrid approach and virtually no one argues to adopt a "pure" approach. When people argue about the extremes (socialism, unbridled capitalism) they're just doing the economic/political equivalent of saying "you have to make shots to win the game" or "defense wins championships." Useless drivel. The real devil is in the details, which requires more than bumper sticker talking points to discuss.
Well why don't you go to a country that is more advanced than the U.S.?
Answer is, there is no more advanced country than the U.S.
You are so aggrieved then why don't you move to a good place to live. Move where there is a better economy. Move to where you have more freedom.
Please tell us where you are going.
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Dude, what I said flew so far over your head I may have to file a flight plan, but I'll accept that burden as I was not as clear as I might have been (although I did say "we"). America is clearly in the "every advanced society in world history," and it has a hybrid system (it's certainly not unbridled capitalism). That's just reality. My point is that arguing for/against pure socialism and/or unregulated capitalism is just dumb.
To answer your inquiry, I'm going to stay in the USA, thanks.
Thank you for staying Big-Blue. But based on your previous post I was thinking you were looking for a good place to live not this shit hole U.S. where patriots like Kaep have such a hard time not being shot by policemen.
I do apologize for being some damned dumb.
SmokinSmile
I like to think that we can criticize the US without wanting to leave. In fact, the more you love it the more you should work to improve it. Or at least make a killing and retire once recreational weed is legalized throughout the land. SmokinSmile
