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Title: THE GREATEST GENERATION MY ASS
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URL Source: http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=58793
Published: Nov 21, 2007
Author: Walter E. Williams
Post Date: 2007-11-21 01:20:37 by Uncle Bill
Keywords: Greatest, Spending and Taxing, Generation
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Comments: 15
Worldnetdaily The "greatest generation" is a term sometimes used in reference to those Americans who were raised during the Great Depression, fought in World War II, worked in farms and factories and sacrificed for the war effort while maintaining the home front. Following the war, these Americans, many of whom were born between the turn of the century and 1930, went on to produce a level of wealth and prosperity heretofore unknown to mankind. There's no question that this generation made an important contribution. Let's look at what else that generation contributed that might qualify them for the generation that laid the foundation for the greatest betrayal of our nation's core founding principle: limited federal government exercising only constitutionally enumerated powers. When the greatest generation was born, federal spending as a percentage of gross domestic product (GDP) was 2.5 percent. As they are now dying off, federal spending is 20 percent of GDP and that doesn't include government meddling. If the grandparents of the greatest generation were asked to describe their contacts or relationship with the federal government, after a puzzled look, straining their recollection faculties, they might answer, "I used to chat with the mailman once in a while." Today, there is little any American can do without some form of federal control, whether it's how much water we can use to flush a toilet, what kind of car we drive or how we prepare for retirement. Congress manages our lives in ways unimaginable to our ancestors through agencies created by the greatest generation, such as Health and Human Services, Housing and Urban Development, Social Security Administration and a host of alphabet agencies such as EPA, DOL, BLM, CDC and DOT. There's little question that the greatest generation provided their offspring, the baby boomer generation, with goods and services that their parents could not afford to give them. But tragically, the greatest generation did not instill in their children what their parents instilled in them: the values and customs that make for a civilized society. In previous generations, people were held responsible for their behavior. Today, society at large pays for irresponsible behavior. Years ago, there was little tolerance for the kind of crude behavior and language that's accepted today. To see men sitting while a woman was standing on a public conveyance used to be unthinkable. Children addressing adults by their first name and their use of foul language in the presence of, and often to, teachers and other adults were unacceptable. A society's first line of defense is not the law but customs, traditions and moral values. These behavioral norms, mostly transmitted by example, word-of-mouth and religious teachings, represent a body of wisdom distilled over the ages through experience and trial and error. They include important thou-shalt-nots such as shalt not murder, shalt not steal, shalt not lie and cheat, but they also include all those courtesies one might call ladylike and gentlemanly conduct. Policemen and laws can never replace these restraints on personal conduct. At best, the police and criminal justice system are the last desperate line of defense for a civilized society. This failure to fully transmit value norms to subsequent generations represents another failing of the greatest generation. If there's an American generation that can justifiably be called the greatest generation, it's that generation responsible for the founding of our nation – men such as James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, George Washington and millions of their fellow countrymen. This is the generation that threw off one form of oppression and laid the foundations for unprecedented human liberty. That is not a trivial achievement, for most often in mankind's history, one form of oppression has been replaced with another far worse, as we've seen in Russia, China and Africa.
Was it really the 'greatest generation'?
By Walter E. Williams
November 21, 2007
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#1. To: Uncle Bill (#0)
I RESEMBLE THAT HEADLINE!! lolol How are YOU my dear friend??
What North American Union? Have you seen THIS yet? Pass it around...
A society's first line of defense is not the law but customs, traditions and moral values. These behavioral norms, mostly transmitted by example, word-of-mouth and religious teachings, represent a body of wisdom distilled over the ages through experience and trial and error. They include important thou-shalt-nots such as shalt not murder, shalt not steal, shalt not lie and cheat, but they also include all those courtesies one might call ladylike and gentlemanly conduct. Policemen and laws can never replace these restraints on personal conduct. At best, the police and criminal justice system are the last desperate line of defense for a civilized society. This failure to fully transmit value norms to subsequent generations represents another failing of the greatest generation. If there's an American generation that can justifiably be called the greatest generation, it's that generation responsible for the founding of our nation – men such as James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, George Washington and millions of their fellow countrymen. This is the generation that threw off one form of oppression and laid the foundations for unprecedented human liberty. That is not a trivial achievement, for most often in mankind's history, one form of oppression has been replaced with another far worse, as we've seen in Russia, China and Africa. Hear-hear! Amen!
What North American Union? Have you seen THIS yet? Pass it around...
It doesn't matter who the greatest is, we are in a heap of trouble now and pointing fingers at the elderly and dead now, won't change a thing. We know what works and what doesn't work. Following the one and only God and his Son Jesus Christ works. Following the Jews, who follow the Talmud, doesn't.
God is always good!
My experience with the "Greatest Generation" (sic) is that they're stupid. After the Iraq war started I saw some old geezer, in his early 70's, outside a grocery store, telling some guy about 30 if "we didn't fight them over there we'd have to fight them here." I'm sure that before 9-11 this buffoon didn't know where Iraq is located.
Fortune favors the prepared mind. A zombie, however, prefers it raw.
Let us all commit to making every effort to undo the horseshit allowed by the most gullible generation regardless of the negative effect this may have upon our lives, fortunes and sacred honor (should we yet retain a small amount of the latter).
"The mighty are only mighty because we are on our knees. Let us rise!" --Camille Desmoulins
I'd wager a dollar he still doesn't.
"Satan / Cheney in "08" I've met plenty of 30 and 40 somethings who believe the same crap.
I've met WWII vets who were absolutely opposed to the war in Iraq.
The Greatest Degeneration.
LOL. Hitler couldn't even invade England, and that was right across the street, comparatively speaking.
The "Department of Defense" has never won a war. The "War Department" was undefeated.
THAT ONE REALLY chaps my ass!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And I ain't kidding. FK the StateInc! HAng 'em all.
Law Enforcement Against Prohibition Law Enforcement Against Prohibition Nobody wants to confront the fact that they ARE HERE. NOW. Thanks to Bushitler and his open-border policy.
"The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite." James Madison
They really, truly are...it's coming from ALL angles. Not to mention foreign enemies mounting I.E.; Communist China CFR-buddies. We really look more like Communist China everyday if you think about. Socialize the costs, privatize the profits. We just haven't different names for stuff...
What North American Union? Have you seen THIS yet? Pass it around...
BTTT
Press 1 for English, Press 2 for English, Press 3 for deportation Death of Habeas Corpus: “Your words are lies, Sir.”
THE GREATEST GENERATION MY ASS
Don't wait - send Ron Paul 2008 some FRNs right NOW!
#2. To: Uncle Bill (#0)
Don't wait - send Ron Paul 2008 some FRNs right NOW!
#3. To: Uncle Bill (#0)
#4. To: Uncle Bill (#0)
#5. To: Uncle Bill (#0)
#6. To: YertleTurtle (#4)
I'm sure that before 9-11 this buffoon didn't know where Iraq is located.
#7. To: YertleTurtle (#4)
After the Iraq war started I saw some old geezer, in his early 70's, outside a grocery store, telling some guy about 30 if "we didn't fight them over there we'd have to fight them here."
#8. To: Rupert_Pupkin (#7)
#9. To: Uncle Bill (#0)
From Two Party System... ...to Two Family System.
#10. To: YertleTurtle (#4)
After the Iraq war started I saw some old geezer, in his early 70's, outside a grocery store, telling some guy about 30 if "we didn't fight them over there we'd have to fight them here."
#11. To: Uncle Bill (#0)
Today, there is little any American can do without some form of federal control, whether it's how much water we can use to flush a toilet
"There is no 'legitimate' Corporation by virtue of it's very legal definition and purpose."
-- IndieTx
#12. To: REDPANTHER (#0)
PING
"There is no 'legitimate' Corporation by virtue of it's very legal definition and purpose."
-- IndieTx
#13. To: YertleTurtle (#4)
After the Iraq war started I saw some old geezer, in his early 70's, outside a grocery store, telling some guy about 30 if "we didn't fight them over there we'd have to fight them here."
#14. To: X-15 (#13)
Don't wait - send Ron Paul 2008 some FRNs right NOW!
#15. To: FOH (#2)
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