The Greatest Generation Made just ONE Mistake...do you agree?

Question

I love the Greatest Generation. As young people they survived the Depression, then they defeat Hitler in WWII and if that wern't enough came home and built our Interstate Highway System we enjoy everyday and gave us more doctors, hospitals and engineers in the history of mankind.

but they made one mistake...they spoiled their children...they gave them everything they never had.

The Results:

Modern Day Liberalism. In the 1960's these spolied brats gave this nation drugs and sexual abuse and if it feels good do it mantality that we as a nation are still paying for. Their selfishness and abuse may take a few generations to clean up. They are the wrost generation this country has ever produced. The "Spoiled Generation" has given us a 53% divorce rate, aboration on demand and more lawyers than engineers.

NEVER FORGET WHY!

Do you agree?

Answer 1

I agree 100%. The welfare state is a total failure.

You've got kids today demanding that their parents buy them every new fangled toy that comes out and when they don't do it they tell them their abusing them..

What BS.

Answer 2

I don't agree. I was not spoiled, my parents didn't do that. I think it is this generation that is spoiling thier kids and taking away the right to of parents to do anything about it. This generation that is having children now have no control or dissapline with their children.
My parents were from the depression, and my father fought in WWll, Korea and Vietnam. I had my butt kicked every day. I don't think spoiled is the word I would use for the Baby Boomers, more for the Gen Xer's.

Answer 3

That is such a crock. Brokaw wrote the book and gave it that title to get the suckers to buy it before they die off. That generation has nothing on the generation of the Founding Fathers or that of the Civil War era. FDR had to drag them kicking and screaming into WWII two full years after it started. The resisted the civil rights movement. Their idiotic backing of the Vietnam War allowed that travesty to run a decade longer than it should have. They gave us Ronald Reagan, the first President to run international criminal operations out of the Oval Office and the first to have never had an original or creative thought in his entire life.

Now they are largely responsible for the moron and his gang of anti-American neo-Fascists that occupy the White House. In addition to Korea (the first) and Vietnam, there are the failures in Afghanistan and Iraq and our losing situation in the war on terror. No generation of Americans has been so responsible for so many military defeats.

The also managed to take America from its preeminent position in the world to one where people either hate us or just laugh at us because we have become such a pathetically weak, hypocritical and morally bankrupt nation. They remain so self-absorbed that if Brokaw wrote 10 more books stroking their over inflated egos maybe he could get all of their money. Go Tom Go!

Answer 4

I'll agree that the 1960s was a pretty bad decade -- a decade in which the country ended up in far worse shape than the way it started that decade. But I don't know that any "generation" is at fault. I simply blame the liberals. They were in charge of all 3 branches of the federal governemt during that decade. By 1972, the word "liberal" started to become a dirty word.

Answer 5

No, because not all of them did. Neither my father nor my mother believed in giving us everything they did not have. In fact, neither of them thought they were deprived in anyway. My father used to have to take rags and tape them up for a ball, yet to this day--and he just turned 79--he says he never thought they were poor. None of us did drugs (well, maybe my older, younger brother did, but not much) and we are all doing very well. I think my baby brother's wife spoils my nieces, but neither my husband nor I can afford to spoil our son and we don't believe in giving him everything. Generalizations are rarely ever totally true. Further, though my parents grew up in the Depression and went through WWII (my father's oldest brother died liberating France), we were all born in the early 60s and my parents didn't marry till 1960.

Answer 6

You're forgetting the Vietnam war. This was Kennedy and Johnson's fault. The 60's weren't caused by any generation babying their kids. Look at the Hippy movement. Can you blame them for using drugs to escape reality with the eminent threat of being drafted into a bogus war? Drug use isn't the fault of the "Greatest Generation". But nice try. It sounded good.

Answer 7

My folks are 75/73. still married. If I ever talked back I got smacked in the mouth. We didn't get to say you hit me and I'll call the cops! Back than the cop would tell ya to take a belt to them kids! I sure wish I had lived in that fantasy world you're talking about.

Answer 8

ABSOLUTELY!!! And I'm a "baby boomer", too. Apparently, if we pay attention to history, these things go in cycles. The young men and women who are now serving, VOLUNTARILY in the Armed Forces are absolutely AWESOME, in my opinion. Do you think they will be our next "Greatest Generation"? And exactly WHERE did their ideals come from?

Hope for the best, let God do the rest.

Answer 9

No, they were just making up for the lousy life they had,and didn't want their kids going through the same thing they did,and they spoil the heck out of them.

Answer 10

I AGREE!

They did not teach their child to take responsibility for their actions, nor did they receive consequences when they did anything wrong. This lead to the current crazy liberal ME generation that is hedonistic and self-serving.

Answer 11

I'm with open 4, on the big mistake thing. Eisenhower warned of the evil of the military industrial machine.

They tricked us (America) by pretending to be space research for a couple decades. Now they got us hook line and sinker in the Mideast. The historic killing fields of the last 5000 years.

Go big Red Go