Maggie's Farm

re Why Are the Children of the ‘Greatest Generation’ So Selfish?:

That is a simplistic premise. One that has been debunked by the readers of Maggie's time and again.

The author displays his ignorance with,"Our political foundational principle, on the other hand, is “one person, one vote.” Our founding fathers believed that if we give a political voice to the Great Majority, diverse interest would produce a fair and just society." It was landed men that were eligible to vote and even then the founders put a check on them by having the senate elected by the states.

He beats his generation up by stating that 10% of the greatest generation served in the military while only 1% of boomers served. Well that may be, but with out a world war to go fight, there was hardly a need for 10% of the boomers to join the military.

"Our nation has been successful precisely because we have found ways to mitigate the concentration of wealth, produced by our free enterprise system, through tax and social policies that benefit a majority of voters." Here he inadvertently puts his finger right on our problem and calls it a feature and not a bug in the system.

So he is blaming the Boomers for being selfish in a "successful" wealth transfer society.

And then he stands there and picks his nose and wonders why things are going to hell.