Not a political bash. Honest.

[herosrest]

Bumped into this artcle... it offers an interesting view across generations.

'Last week over lunch, a friend in his 30s prodded me to explain how my generation, the boomers, had botched so many things. While not exactly conceding that we had, I said that the one thing none of us had anticipated was that America would cease to be a land of broadly shared prosperity. To be born, as I was, in mid-century was to have come of age in a nation in which the level of prosperity continued to rise and the circle of prosperity continued to widen. This was the great given of our youth. If the boomers embraced such causes as civil and social rights and environmentalism, it was partly because the existence and distribution of prosperity seemed to be settled questions.'
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/26/AR2007092602069.html



l hold comment, not being american.

[werz]

Why then did the boomers who went on to become the CEO's and politicians screw it up with greed.

[Lgbpop]

As usual werz has no clue what he's talking about. Neither does that "friend in his 30s." Our poverty level now includes people with two cars, a computer, a roof over their heads and plenty of food. Not quite the same poverty level as Ethiopia. More people now have stuff that people 50 years ago would never have dreamed of having. Also, we're not coming out of a huge depression that made any economic gains at all look huge.

That's the Post again for ya.:rolleyes: Read the second headline - this is about feelings, not facts.

[mireland]

As usual werz has no clue

'nuff said...

[werz]

Don't pull ya head out of yur asp and look around, the number of have nots has increased by a large %. Just because they have TV's that weren't invented when the great depression happened, don't kid yourself that there won't be soup kitchens for those pushed into poverty. When those made homeless by unscrupulous lending by banks and sharp practices on the part of those selling loans to people who couldn't afford them become homeless, and the value of the dollar drops so low oil exporters won't accept it as payment.
Massive deficients run up by Bush will be the end of prosperity for the masses, as you can guarantee the rich won't be paying it off. It's just another way to transfer the money from the middle class to the rich.
The building industry is collapsing, the wall st firms that did the dodgy financial deals are already closing down
When Bush attacks Iran and get his battle fleets sunk in the Persian gulf, causing a cut off of the oil from there, and perhaps WWIII, then the whole world can join you in death and poverty.

[Lgbpop]

Massive, deficient what? Your sentence has no subject. It also has no sanity but I'm trying not to point out the obvious stuff.