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[quote=Anonymous]http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/former-goldman-sachs-trader-pleads-guilty-to-fraud-private-employment-slips-in-march/2013/04/03/490d7400-9c96-11e2-9a79-eb5280c81c63_story.html
[b]34-year-old[/b] Goldman Sachs trader pleaded guilty to wire fraud which caused his company to lose $118 million.  That's okay, it was probably [i]under the watch of a baby boomer,[/i] so the trader's generation is safe from being accused of ruining America.  Goodness knows, the younger generation never did anything bad except when the baby boomers let them.

Sorry, folks, I know I'm laying the sarcasm on thick here and that there are some folks who are trying (but not always succeeding) to give nuanced arguments but I'm just so tired of being accused of ruining America when it's pretty obvious that there are people of all generations working on that.

Jeez, when I graduated from college into stagflation and an anemic job market in the 70s I did not turn around and blame my parents. When the recession hit the Rust Belt like a hammer in the early 80s, I managed to avoid pointing my finger at the World War II generation.  Oh, I forgot, my generation never struggled and suffered and wanted for anything.  Uh, what planet was that on again? Cuz that's not how it happened on this one.[/quote]

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