June 10, 2014

Youth Have No Memory, No Historical Perspective



[From article]
It is said that the problem with the younger generation — any younger generation — is that it has not read the minutes of the last meeting. Barack Obama, forever young, has convenient memory loss: It serves his ideology.
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However, a Wall Street Journal headline announces that Washington has a plan: “U.S. Backs Off Tight Mortgage Rules.” It really is true: Life is not one damn thing after another, it is the same damn thing over and over.
There is, however, something new under the sun. The Pew Research Center reports that Americans age 25 to 32 — “millennials” — constitute the first age cohort since World War II with higher unemployment or a greater portion living in poverty than their parents at this age. But today’s millennials have the consolation of having the president they wanted.

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/will052814.php3#.U5Z22N0--yM

Jewish World Review
Obamanomics
By George Will
May 28, 2014

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