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Originally Posted by shinerbock
. . . but I'm just tired of the "the government owes me" attitude. If anything, you owe the country, we all do.
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Originally Posted by shinerbock
unfortunately. i'm simply saying that it seems my father's generation had a lot more of the "i'm gonna do whatever I have to to make sure my kids have ________," moreso than this generation.
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Okay, since we've veered
way off on a tangent, I think that for a disturbingly large portion of the American population, lower, middle and upper class in particular, the "I am owed" attitude is all too prevelant. Whether it's the government that owes me or the parents that have always given me every little thing I've wanted, or simply society in general, I think the extent to which America has become a culture of the "entitled" extends far, far beyond "the government owes me."
It's nothing particularly new. I remember being told early on by my parents that familiy wealth tends to run in three generation cycles -- the first generation amasses it, the second maintains it, and the third goes through it. But it certainly seems more widespread than ever before.