05-24-2016, 04:42 AM
(05-24-2016, 04:04 AM)taramarie Wrote: Sorry just got home. Double shift today. Why do you think the lost had more trust in govt compared to xers?
The early part of their lives was while was before the really huge regulatory binge of the Progressives which never really ended. Live a few decades of everything going down hill due to central planning and your attitude will change. The Lost were improvise, adapt and overcome and so they never stopped paying attention. There were exceptions but the ones that lasted until my time had plenty of time to learn by experience.
Here is an overview of the Great Depression:
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. -- H.L. Mencken
If one rejects laissez faire on account of man's fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action. -- Ludwig von Mises
If one rejects laissez faire on account of man's fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action. -- Ludwig von Mises