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09/12/2004: "Let the Sixties Die for Gawd's Sake!"

There they go again. Bringing up what George W. Bush and John F. Kerry did or did not do in the sixties and early seventies. Look, we all were in a god damned coma in the sixties. We all (those of us who were turning of age or barely of age) did stupid things for which we would not like to be judged today nor should we.

And about that war, you had to be there. It was a rotten war that we had no business in. Our youth were wasted and killed in a senseless war. And yes, many of us protested the war. Many went to war. No one was right. No one was wrong. We were all young. We all wanted to change the world. We all saw injustice.

We were mugged by cops on our college campuses. We were gassed and beat and jailed. Yes, we rebelled. We rebelled in every way we could.

National war mobilization starting with Vietnam War led to steady price inflation which peaked in 1980 but continued afterwards. From 1965-95, U.S. prices inflated more than 400 percent. The Vietnam War was politically unpopular and could not be financed from traditional methods (compulsory saving and increased taxation) and so the government borrowed to pay for it.

Fact: We only recently finished paying off the last of the financial debt from the Vietnam War! Who paid most of it? Right. The greying folks who fought it or protested it. Damn the Vietnam war! And damn the old men who created it.

But now we are in charge. It is now our world. We are the establishment. Learn to like it. But for god's sake forget the damn war and the sixties and what we did or did not do during that time. Those of us who lived through it know why we did what we did. The rest of you need not attempt to judge us.

This election is not about Vietnam or drugs or the sixties. Those days are long gone and dead. This election is about our survival. Get over the sixties. Please.