Thanks for the well thought out essay, Mr. Eddie.
I hate to say it, buTT….(and I am that, literally) it sounds like the generation before me screwed things up the most. You know what hurts as much as anything? Richard M. Nixon happens to share the same surname as I. My daddy raised me to believe he was one of America's greatest presidents, didn't do anything the other's didn't do, just got caught.
The older I get, the more I realize how little of history and what I was taught, is actually true. I don't know what to believe?
I have come to realize that you can't really count on anyone, may as well learn to grow a good garden and sustain yourself.