working class stiff wrote:
Which 'greatest generation' is that? The one that came home from the war and enacted all the policies conservatives now rail against? Policies on the environment, civil rights, medicare and medicaid?
They were all liberals, weren't they?
The GI's who gave their lives in order that You and I , and the rest of the world (hopefully) could live in peace and freedom. We did not get loaded with 'Liberals' until LBJ and the Great Society. I should also like to point out that France had their form of Medicare since the Twenties and as a result over the years has become one of the best in Europe.