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With age comes wisdom, for most people. I voted for McGovern and Carter, but switched to Reagan in 1980 and never looked back.

Wrong Lori. As usual you miss the point of what politics is about. The goal is to make a better future for society and the family is to pass on wealth to the next generation. Instead, our "government" does nothing but buy votes in a false economy and the family has spoiled the next generation into believing that everybody owes them a living. Thanks for nothing, Liberals.

SupervonNov. 19, 11 4:51 PM Wrong Lori. As usual you miss the point of what politics is about. The goal is to make a better future for society and the family is to pass on wealth to the next generation. ------------ so why does this generation have less social mobility opportunity than previous generations? Could it possibly be that we have produced a society in which the accumulation of wealth into fewer and fewer hands is the primary goal of the private sector? (these are actually a serious questions, not an invitation for thoughtless diatribes and rants.)

"Could it possibly be that we have produced a society in which the accumulation of wealth into fewer and fewer hands is the primary goal of the private sector?" --- That would be suicide for the private sector. Why would they do that? Where do you get this nonsense of the shrinking middle class? I hear it everyday, and yet my eyes tell me another story. I see $40,000 pick ups, SUV's and other extravagant vehicles. Boats. RV's. Four wheelers. Jet skis. Snowmobiles. Expensive lawn tractors. Snow blowers. Airports stuffed with people in jeans and sneakers traveling to who knows where--Vegas, FL, Costa Rica, Mexico. Why are the casions packed, The stadiums for NFL, Baseball and the NHL? Concerts where tickets cost $200? Who ARE these people, the evil, rich 1%?

Meh, the politics of the Millennials pretty much reflect nothing more than decades of leftist indoctrination in our public schools and universities. Critical thinking, especially in politics, has gone begging for decades.

"Critical thinking, especially in politics, has gone begging for decades." -- How right you are. We have become fat, spoiled and complacent. We want something for nothing. We are ripe for a takeover, only we are the only fools who don't know this. The Iranians, Chinese, Russians, etc are all just laughing at us. Again.

godandguns: ---- are you arguing that America's wealth is NOT being consolidated into fewer and fewer hands?

"godandguns: ---- are you arguing that America's wealth is NOT being consolidated into fewer and fewer hands?" -- Yep. Everyone assumes that because the rich are becoming richer, we are becoming poorer. These fools assume the pie is finite. They literally assume that the creation of wealth causes poverty. Does what Gates or Jobs create make us all wealthier, or poorer?

godandguns: "How right you are. We have become fat, spoiled and complacent." That "we" that you speak of is the 1% who don't have to work, who can live on their capital gains and dividend income, and can invest in companies that create jobs only overseas. The rest of us are hungry for work, for opportunity and fairness in our economy and for justice in society.

Lori's advice to the Millenials: If the Silent Generation rep at your Thanksgiving table starts grousing about the nation's decline, you'd be justified in asking what his generation has to complain about."

My advice: If the Silent Generation rep at your Thanksgiving table starts grousing about the nation's decline, ask them to explain, make an attempt to understand and learn, and hopefully you will see the folly in the politics of the left.