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These days the real achievers are the minority and the entitlement crowd, the anti U.S., anti-military, anti-elders crowd is the majority among young people.

Over-generalization and an obviously wrong one at that.

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My generation, and the generation before mine and the one before theirs, we built the country to the richest, most powerful, in the world .... probably in the history of the world.

That is impressive stuff. How hard was it to do, with Europe being a smoldering disaster after the war and having a bounty of natural resources that would make everyone but the Russians jealous? America post war until just recently had significant advantages over the rest of the world. Population, resources, and not being commies.

I'll pat your generation on the back for being in the right place at the right time. Congratulations for being able to take credit for being born when you were!!!!!!

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China will surpass us in everything before most of this current generation turns 40

You think we have a demographics crunch with an aging population...think about the implications of the one child rule in China. Not to mention the struggles of trying to create a consumer base and transition away from an export based economy and somehow keep the new middle class from getting all bitchy about the lack of rights. Plus half their country is in abject poverty in the fields of rural China.

But yes, they're about to make us look like a second rate country.