7/3/13

The Greatest Generation Followed by Generations of Greed Without Public Service

The generation of the second world war brought more than 20 million Americans into military service from a population of perhaps 140 million. After the demobilization social comprehension of government and feelings of equality were pervasive. There was a better social management of  government, taxation, public debt and national development was key. Yet in a declining level of public military service and rising tide of generation-me and globalism the public sector has fallen into decline. It is the public sector that enable private sector prosperity with good government. It is the public sector that should defend the environment rather than give away some of the last stands of old growth in the Tongass National Forest.

http://juneauempire.com/state/2013-07-01/forest-service-approves-big-thorne-timber-sale#.UdL03DtsiSo

With so few elites ever serving in the military and with unlimited capitalism erasing democratic common sense wealth has concentrated, globalism and international develop has surpassed concern for the national well being of environment, infrastructure and employment. Public debt has increase and the border become porous with decline of unionism and real wages. These are logical development of the aloof beneficiaries of generations following the victory of the greatest generation.

In every generation there are those with the fire of nationalism and spirituality such as drove the qualitatively greater generation of the founders. Quantitatively the greatest generation of the second world war era surpassed the populace that followed in the number of individuals that fundamentally understood the relationship of government to society and the environment. That some might arise to lead the present generations to restoration of liberty and economic justice for all is necessary if anyone is to care about the future of the United States or even perhaps life on Earth in decline during the era of mass extinction and global warming stimulated by industrialization and inefficient natural resource use.

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