Gavin McInnis on Baby Boomers

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(05-22-2016, 02:00 AM)taramarie Wrote: This is very interesting. Now we are getting somewhere. Yes, that is true. Boomers never taught us nothing is free. We lived in a bubble during the 90s.

In all honesty most children are oblivious to the world not directly in front of them. That isn't a generational problem for Millies as far as the 1990s are concerned. It would have happened no matter the archetype the generation takes on.

Quote: The 2000's were kind of a smack in the face but it has not knocked some sense into my generation as of yet.

To be honest I don't think that it has knocked sense into the Boomers either. Xers just persevered like Nomads do.

Quote: I am one of the ones who knows nothing is free.

Then you're already smarter than at least half your generation already.

Quote:But then again, i am not an American millennial. If what you have noted down is what the US economy was running on just after ww2 and it worked, then that is what it should go back to.

Just after WW2 large portions of Europe and Asia were devastated meaning that the majority of all industrial production took place in one of two places, the USA and the USSR. This was how they both became super powers even if the USSR had to re-industrialize after the war, but the salvaged enough of what they had previously built to keep the bullets, tanks and steel coming. The USSR unfortunately was never very good at delivering consumer goods and part of that is the problem of long term national economic planning, the rest was a result of bureaucratic inefficiencies built into the any state Russians will create.

That being said, such a program has run for most of the history of the US from 1776 to about 1975-77. Carter was the first to seek to abandon protectionist tariffs entirely (a course only partially reversed by Reagan, but reinstated in full under Clinton). As such there has been a very long stagnation of wages in comparison to productivity.

It should also be noted that after 1964 the Democrats pushed for and passed major changes in immigration laws bringing in cheaper labor, and created the American Welfare state which has had disastrous consequences for the family structure (not to mention creates a cycle of dependency on the state).

In short welfare-stateism kills economic libidos.

It is interesting to note that Gavin McInnis like myself has a Punk Rock background.

[It should be interesting to note that the Democrats also tend to claim that the Republicans generally, and Trump in particular, are 'racist' because they say that the poor shouldn't seek more and more welfare but should instead seek out work. To that extent I agree that blacks should prefer work to welfare, however, the donor class of the GOP largely also wants cheap labor which prices native born Americans, particularly blacks, out of the market for the low skill, low education, low pay jobs that are the first rung on familial success. In short well meaning liberals managed to destroy the black middle class something the Klan even at the height of its powers couldn't accomplish.]

Quote: We totally agree on Americans never agreeing on a vision. I do not think that will ever happen and if anything, it just divides people further and creates a hostile environment. Even inclusion of others having more rights is pissing people off.

Americans have never had the same vision as to what they want--we are a really huge country (fourth in area behind Russia, Canada, and China) with a huge population (we're third behind China and India). We work best when when we operate the way the country intended with the Federal government taking a very small role in daily life (Foreign affairs, foreign trade, and insuring everyone has basic human rights--stuff states have proved not very good at and individuals can't do themselves) with the state and local governments taking the bulk of the responsibility for day to day governance.

That is what is traditionally American and how our country operates best. If New York State or California want to try and create some sort of PC Utopia I don't have to live in New York State or California...I'll be perfectly fine here in Florida. Though I would like to move back to the Midwest but the industry would have to come back first, otherwise there are no customers for the restaurant I've been wanting to start.