(08-18-2022 10:14 AM)b2b Wrote: And who raised those children, Fo Shizzle? Y'all act like they just came out of the womb entitled and lazy.
Teddy Roosevelt broke up Robber Barons with anti-trust laws. Franklin Roosevelt suspended them to fight WWII, and Truman never put them back in place. Eisenhower warned of the rise of the Military Industrial Industry's power in 1959-60 when he saw their desire to follow up Korea with Viet Nam. These companies were the primary investors of the Federal Reserve Bank.
When JFK took office, the national debt was 205 million dollars. He, because of his attorney General RFK, began a plan to shut down the Federal Reserve because the military industrial complex backing them was lobbying both sides of Congress for involvement in Viet Nam. JFK was assassinated in November of 63 and RFK in June of '68.
With LBJ taking office in November of '63, and as a major backer of the Federal Reserve, the Military Industrial Complex, and of escalation in Viet Nam the National debt grew to billions by the end of the Nixon/Ford Administration.
In 1979 a former Governor of Alabama and Naval Intelligence man, told me the 2 party system was dead. He likened it to one stable (corporate America) owning both horses in a 2 horse Kentucky Derby with one wearing red silks and the other blue. The debt would go up whether by war or social programs so the dollar's value was dependent upon corporate support and Federal Reserve personnel.
What you assign to Boomers as blame can be laid at Truman and Eisenhower's feet for not re-instating anti-trust laws. At Johnson and Nixon's feet for accelerating it, and at Nixon's feet for removing the dollar from the Gold Standard as an anti-inflationary move. But since JFK's assassination the MIC (corporate multi-nationals) through the Federal Reserve has been in control. Since RFK's assassination nobody has challenged them, and now with computer surveillance and more secret police agencies than there are letters in the alphabet to describe them our rights are almost gone.
Yes it happened on the Boomer watch, but it started in earnest when FDR suspended antitrust law, allowed the sharing of patents, and streamlining of industry to prosecute WWII. And their power (MIC) grew, and the Korean war which was legit was replaced by the Red Menace and Domino Theory to justify Viet Nam, and every action since.
So, what looks like a Boomer problem is one which led to 2 depressions prior to and including 1894-5, 1929, and the Revenge of the Robber Barons right up to Buffet, Gates, Soros, Jobs and all of those already in the Military / Space Industrial Complex. And when H.W. Bush permitted PAC money and grandfathered in the Democrats and Republicans, so their candidates didn't have to spend money and time getting on the ballot in all 50 states while all independent and small party candidates did, they cemented through PAC money, their singular ownership over both parties and made themselves the #1 donor to both.
We lost our democracy to Corporate Multi-nationals by lobby money turned to PAC money and via assassinations, not elections, and because our debt grows with each of their military involvements which only increases their wealth and power, and none of it has one damned thing to do with generations!
