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Monday, June 8, 2009

Reasonable Hope

{link » Mitch Daniels addressed college graduates and inspired hope}

“‘In sum,’ Daniels said, ‘our parents scrimped and saved to provide us a better living standard than theirs. We borrowed and splurged ... It's been a blast. Good luck cleaning up after us.’ [...] ‘Please, be judgmental,’ Daniels continued. ‘As free people, we agree to tolerate any conduct that does no harm to others, but we should not be coerced into condoning it. Selfishness and irresponsibility in business, personal finances or in family life are deserving of your disapproval. Go ahead and stigmatize them.’”
 — Peter Robinson, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and contributor to RobinsonandLong.com, writes a weekly column for Forbes.

There is nothing wrong with hope and change, so long as the former is based on reason and the latter is based on common sense. The Tooth Fairy is fine for little kids with baby teeth. Reason, common sense, and, most importantly, personal accountability is for adults getting longer in the tooth.

The Baby Boomers, born in the two decades following the Allied Victory in the Second World War, comprise the bane of American existence. Coddled by their well meaning parents, the so-called Greatest Generation, who wanted nothing but the best for their pampered little darlings (to make up for their own deprivations during the War), the Boomers aged without maturing, clinging to their toys and their religion of Free Love with Lunch. These are the free loaders running our great and generous nation into the ground of has-been nations.

The reasonable hope today is that we can survive the Boomers' Reign of Error long enough to allow their grandchildren to lead us back to the Land of Milk, Honey, and Personal Accountability. It is literally a race against time.

Post #783 Reasonable Hope

2 comments:

  1. Bravo! As a member of Generation X, and the father of two Millenials that will indeed be charged with cleaning up the mess, I have thought the same thing about the Boomers for years. While I admit we Gen-Xers haven't done much better than the Boomers in the responsibility department, we certainly haven't complained about everything like they have. Maybe that's because we've had better drugs--but hey, that's progress.

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  2. I hasten to point out that I am technically not a Boomer! Having been born during the War, I don't qualify as a member of either the Boomers or the Greatest Generation, because the latter was the generation that my parents belonged to. Hence, I belong to that tweener generation of accidental war-time conceptions.

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