How did my generation – the baby boomers – squander the potential our parents left us?
What can our children do to correct our mistakes?
These are the central questions of my new memoir: Coming Up Short.
You can preorder it now. https://sites.prh.com/reich
What can our children do to correct our mistakes?
These are the central questions of my new memoir: Coming Up Short.
You can preorder it now. https://sites.prh.com/reich
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Our parents voted for Reagan and Nixon and their ilk.
The boomers were targeted by the leaders and lawmakers our parents elected.
Nixon's DEA/FBI war on hippies, blamed them for turning the country against his war effort and his eventual impeachment. And the HRC hate was born.
Please consider closing your account.
Hopefully, they’ll vote in future if they want to keep democracy
Had the numbers and wealth to change the world for the better
Instead they put Reagan in office
Pathetic 😡😢
I do have to say that your son and what's he's built with @dropout.tv have brought our family SO much joy. The shows are hilarious, but also so honestly sweet, supportive and love-filled. Jess's wedding eps made me cry. I'd be very proud if he was my kiddo.
As if we don't get enough grief from the #alphabet generations. 🙄
Nope.
A legacy of debt can be resolved relatively easily compared to the legacy of climate change and environmental devastation.
look forward to checking it out of my local library
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Not surprising to me. I’m part of the Jones Generation and I’ve seen their tendencies all my life
No one understands his tariff policy. The markets view Trump as incoherent. He has a long history of lying. When do Thune and the other Republicans act?
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I am thinking that the single most important thing our children and future generations can do is be smarter about disinformation, which to me is the root cause of all of this!
Let’s all just take a minute to verify the “news” we get from liars like Rogan, Trump, Fox, Bannon, etc!
how dare another country deny the great usa
manly men drive gas pigs
Ppl on average get wealthier as they age. When your generation was young (less wealthy) they enjoyed a robust safety net paid for by taxes on greatest generation when it was your turn to repay the favor you all turned to Reagan, bush, and even Clinton to cut that safety net to cut your
Once the USSR fell your masters no longer had to pretend to care about the welfare of the poors
social benefits end with you and then USA returns to its historical norm of brutal poverty
WE TRIED.
How much do I have to pay? lol
(generally as a generation)
-self centred, they don’t listen
They still see themselves as teenagers / can’t give room to anyone one else
Believe in meritocracy but cut the ladder as they go up… never seeing they were mostly lucky. Women baby boomers I see more kindly
Isn't that why you named yourselves the Me Generation?
The older boomers, esp those related to the H L Hunt family in Dallas & were/are Birchers had a multi-decade takeover plan by the mid-70s at the latest. I know bc it was explained to me by my brother, Albert, Bunker H's son in law.
It worked!
Entitled with every opportunity to succeed, education, preferred hiring through a system of patronage & systemic exclusion of those not Caucasian.
True entitlement breeds contempt for others.
Truth
Common sense
Just like the author. Obama’s MiniMe. Short.
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Free speech, free press, free assembly, freedom of religion, due process, justice, free & fair election...
Uphold our Constitution!
Real World Economics
There are two types of demand - Inelastic and elastic
If there is only 1 source of salt on a desert island, price is likely to be inelastic.
Salt is cheap in USA because many sources of salt.
Things that have elastic demand get impacted by price.
Higher price goes up when have elastic demand less quantity wanted and more alternatives found.
Demand for labor is elastic. The higher the minimum wage goes up the harder it will be for many people to get jobs, the harder it will be for people to keep their jobs, more likely people will
work less, more jobs done by robots and AI, more inflation.
Minimum wage was created by extremely racist people who wanted to cause harm to black people and females.
Minimum wage is a sledge hammer that causes more harm than good the higher it gets.
There are many ways to increase wages.
Fake Progressives are one of main reasons for poverty in our country and globally because they do not have the common sense reasoning skills a ten year old should have. The more you attack wealth creation the less wealth that gets created.
If you are going to punish people for
earning over X amount each year, sane people spend lot less time working - creating jobs, inventing, thinking of ways to reduce global warming. etc.
If you are going to punish people for having over X amount of wealth, people will care less about global warming, etc.
Two of main reasons for huge difference in wealth between richest billionaires and the rest of population is Bayh Dole Act not being enforced and intellectual property theft
I discussed my support in 2002 for Bayh Dole Act to reduce prescription drug
https://www.thegreenpapers.com/Vox/?20020721-0
prices, prices of many technologies, and reduce significantly difference between richest people and poorest people.
Federal government over many decades has spent great deal of money on research - drugs, computer hardware, computer software, other technologies, etc.
I do not think the Bayh Dole Act has ever been enforced dealing with prescription drugs.
The fortunes of Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Microsoft, and Apple are almost entirely based on intellectual property theft from Xerox. Many people who work for business publications keep forgetting that
Xerox had to worry about its survival because Federal government engaged in what I consider to be criminal and not constitutional activities dealing with forcing Xerox to allow companies from Japan to license its technologies.
USA nationalized industries in peace time and War.
What is taking place to USA now is just the beginning of the Golden Rule of Politics.
Eisenhower overthrew Iran because of oil, Guatemala because of fruit
https://www.npr.org/2019/01/31/690363402/how-the-cia-overthrew-irans-democracy-in-four-days
Ignoring reality does not change reality.
If you care more about cost of eggs than reality, what do you think is going to happen over time?
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-doge-data-collection-hhs-epa-cdc-maternal-mortality?utm_source=sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=majorinvestigations&utm_content=feature
Did baby boomers overthrow governments of Iran and Guatemala with CIA? No
Did baby boomers take away ability of State Legislatures to take on tyrants and pick Judges on US Supreme Court? NO
Study history
People who voted for this are enemies of married females and the Constitution. They should be arrested for their crimes. They should spend many years in state prisons in states they do not live in.
Not constitutional for many reasons
Some of them are
https://www.yahoo.com/news/four-democrats-join-republicans-pass-160238331.html
Denies people Republican Form of Government
Denies people equal protection of the laws
Poll taxes
Not constitutional to require people to have photo ID to vote and make them pay for it.
If require birth certificate to vote, need to make it extremely easy to get and provide for free.
You keep blaming the wrong people.
Baby boomers did not cause the mess.
They got stuck with the mess.
Have you forgotten it was the Democrats who decided to go to War with Vietnam? Resolution and not Declaration.
Also us the people feel powerless. Why, I have no idea but they do.
Don't go to work for a couple days, don't buy groceries for a couple days etc.... see how ol trumpy bear and regime like that....
Very very simple but people don't learn. 💔
Anytime you pigeon hole one of the largest gens in this country, you're in for a fight. Big difference between the uneducated rural boomers and the educated urban ones. And between the older boomers and younger. And parents didn't leave "potential" either.
To openly & summarily dismiss the book- -without even reading the jacket flap or preface seems to be as short sighted as closing your eyes-sticking your fingers in your ears & yelling La-La-La-La as loudly as possible.
They want your generation to fix it yourselves.
You sold us out.
You stole trillions from your children and grandchildren via Republican record deficits, to fund your lifestyle and the economic growth that provided it, without paying for it yourselves.
Not you personally,
The boomer Generation.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1B96rQohpw8
She dreams of peace, safety, and a chance to grow up.
Your support can bring her medicine, food, and hope.
Please don’t look away. Help Jana today
Make America Mexico Again.
Before the US annexed the West
We were all lied to, cheated, grifted, manipulated, oppressed with taxes, denied justice & equity, mandated insurance, extorted with usury interest, and told to be honest & work hard...comply, obey, accept the Duopoly Scam...
Bought my own car, never had the means to buy a house, educated myself, raised my dgtr alone.
My Mom never had anything
Not after processing.
(chef's kiss)
Made life easier for them than it was for us.