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In reply to the discussion: It seems like there's a lot of dislike and contempt for "boomers" from "millennials" [View all]MisterP
(23,730 posts)really passed NAFTA and the IWR and also created RW populism as the "alternative" to that, who created the think tanks to redefine eating healthy as ridiculous woo, who hire J Edgar Hoover and Alex Jones: it's a decades-long corporate coup, from Team B and Sen. Cranston to the Contract on America to the Clinton impeachment to New Labour to the 2000 theft to Libya, Syria, and the Veal Pen; even if every one of these planetary predators is a Boomer that doesn't say much about the Boomers: all generations are now stuck in the world these Powell-Memo freaks created
saying that "welfare and education budgets got too big by 1980, so we had to tighten our belts" is just repeating what Hayek ("it's more moral to let a retarded child die than tax someone for their care"
and Milton Friedman ("we need five--no--FIFTY Pinochets) and Ayn Rand and Stockman and Thomas Friedman keep saying in order to drive down "labor costs"