Retirement delayed and broke anyway

[haele]

69. Nixon and Reagan were "Silent Generation", as were all their staff and cohorts.

The heads of the CIA, Kissinger, most of the banking heads that crawled out from under the rocks after Truman left office and the New Deal started stalling, they were all "Silent Generation" and the smug conservatives from the Greatest Generation. Instead of propping up the New Deal, they pushed to get right back to the Roaring 20's with it's Gilded Age Hedonism and Hustle.

Fed on the smugness from the Strength of the Dollar, Corporate Colonialism, Media pimping, and the cocky assuredness of "We Won, so We get to remake the World instead of tired old Europe with their history...", the Greatest Generation, along with too many Boomers, were perfectly willing to give those poor Rich Men back the money. So long as they could get a piece of it, too.

My dad worked his ass off to raise a family while he got his teaching credentials in California back in 1964/65...Ronald Reagan made sure we had to move out of state and pretty much start over in 1968. And the economy for the working class was never the same since.

Haele