http://www.townhall.com/Columnists/WalterEWilliams/2007/11/21/the_greatest_generation
The Greatest Generation
By Walter E. Williams
Wednesday, November 21, 2007
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The “greatest generation” is a term sometimes used in reference to those Americans who were raised during the Great Depression, fought in World War II, worked in farms and factories and sacrificed for the war effort while maintaining the home front. Following the war, these Americans, many of whom were born between the turn of the century and 1930, went on to produce a level of wealth and prosperity heretofore unknown to mankind.
There’s no question that this generation made an important contribution. Let’s look at what else that generation contributed that might qualify them for the generation that laid the foundation for the greatest betrayal of our nation’s core founding principle: limited federal government exercising only constitutionally enumerated powers.
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Williams correctly removes the “greatest generation” label from the “Depression / WW2” people. They really screwed up by letting the gooferment, who created the Great Depression with the Smoot Hawley Tariff, “save” them by the removal of the gold standard buried among all the “recovery programs”. That single event allowed the gooferment to grow exponentially, run up a debt, and effectively tax every dollar holder by inflation. At least. the French Kings had to shave the French Franc to pay for their excesses.
Short of a Ron Paul presidential victory, I don’t see how we get our liberty back. The American Republic ended with the War of Northern Aggression. It’s been downhill ever since.
One wonders what will touch off the the Third American Revolution?
And, just how bad it will be?
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