All due respect to my grandmother, but Greatest Generation my ass. Highest levels of classism, racism and homophobia; most resistance to spending one thin dime for the greater good of the community, the group most likely to whine, "Why should I pay for a new school? My kids are done!"
The ones who call us up at the newspaper and bitch to high heaven about "Those People" moving in down the street, hanging out on the sidewalk and "doing their deals" because, y'know, all black teens are drug dealers; who complain that the 105-degree brick schools don't need air conditioning, they should just open the windows "like we used to"; the biggest sense of enttitlement of any age group, including Gen-Y druggie slackers.
I still have yet to understand the philosophy of a country that insists upon free health care as an unalienable right for all senior citizens regardless of income, but refuses to provide the same for its children. I don't get that.
So, anyone who didn't hate you for your rant can now hate me! Ow, grandma, don't hit me!
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mini-rant! mini-rant!
Date: 2005-09-29 04:16 pm (UTC)The ones who call us up at the newspaper and bitch to high heaven about "Those People" moving in down the street, hanging out on the sidewalk and "doing their deals" because, y'know, all black teens are drug dealers; who complain that the 105-degree brick schools don't need air conditioning, they should just open the windows "like we used to"; the biggest sense of enttitlement of any age group, including Gen-Y druggie slackers.
I still have yet to understand the philosophy of a country that insists upon free health care as an unalienable right for all senior citizens regardless of income, but refuses to provide the same for its children. I don't get that.
So, anyone who didn't hate you for your rant can now hate me! Ow, grandma, don't hit me!