We’ve had the best of times. Now we’re using our voting muscle to ensure our children inherit a far harsher world We are the first generation in which pretty well everyone can read and write fairly fluently. We had the freedom that comes from not having to fear starvation if your employer fires you: there were other jobs to go to, and a welfare state to fall back on. These things made possible the freedom of the 60s. And what did we do with this wonderful inheritance? We trashed it.
We created a far harsher world for our children to grow up in. It was as though we decided that the freedom and lack of worry which we had inherited was too good for our children, and we pulled up the ladder we had climbed.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/jul/05/baby-boomers-voting-muscle
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