Hmmmmmm..........

[ralph]

yep , good for baby boomers but they started feeling or seeing / recognizing the noose in maybe the 80s and some saw it earlier [I did] . The reason I say my parents is that they survived being kids , my Dad survived fighting the duration of ww2 , he worked in a coal mine for one day after he left the service . That prompted him to get a better job where his skills and brains did good for his future wife and kids . Both of my parents went from being 'poor' to being fairly prosperous as they raised 5 kids . ME , I'm 65 and glad to be there . I'd agree with your closing thought about Boomers .

[planosteve]

Traditional America (and Western Civilization) is in it's death throes, killed by Self Hate, Multi-Culturalism, Anti-Traditionalism, Immigration, and transfer payments.

It had a good run, I am happy to lived at the tail end of it.

A new "Dark Ages" is descending on us.

You left out central banking and fiat money.
Did you know that the FED was thought to be the creation of J.P. Morgan. But, when he died it was discovered that he owned only 17 % of his own bank. The rest was owned by the Rothschild family.

[Red Oak]

I lumped that in with transfer payments, without fiat money they wouldn't be possible.