and one bathroom. not good. but this was the american were they too indulgent because of their experiences? i think that s what we explain in the film we go through how that generation wanted to protect and really do the best they could for their kids because they didn t want them they had seen what the great depression had been and they had seen world war ii and the meat grinder. because of that cultural reality for them, they felt that they wanted to protect them and that s what they did. you see the ark of the story this epic you have to see where we came from where the boomer generation came from. look what we had. look what was bequeth to us a country with a large industrial base a country with sound finances. if you look at the star of the story from the 1950s there s no generation that could have ever started with more that was given to them by a country.
dow jones industrial average, there s actually a sharp corner where the graph goes up. that was the beginning of the.com bubble. why did that happen in 1995. why didn t it happen in 1985. why didn t it happen in 2005? why didn t it happen at all. the depression era generation is retiring it understood the dangers of financial risk they had grown-up in the great depression. the baby boomers that took over only knew the upside only knew about prosperity. they took over wall street and had the hunger for profit they realized something else that up until this point the investment houses had been partnerships. all of the banks that blew themselves up they were all publicly traded bear staerns, neiman brothers, they used to be partnerships and now they became publicly traded. when you were a partner in a
powerful. the american people will have to have the back of new generation political lead deers. a watched gingrich up close the contracting of america i think the best thing george w. bush did was kept the country safe. he never waived on the idea we have to be on the offense which we weren t in the 1990s. i don t know, these problems seem worse to me. first of all barack obama has taken us back to bill clinton era. look, we can build, even though we have a calamity here, a problem here, we have built on the ashes before after the great depression and after world war ii. we can do it again. this country can do it. we are the greatest country in the world and we can do it.
period and the great depression in world war ii in those three periods of choosing people had to decide what kind of country we were going to be where we were going to go as a nation. i think we are entering a similar period. the choices over the next few years are among the most profound we will have seen in all of american history. [off-line] ( marker squeaking ) when business travel leaves you drained, re-charge withomfo suites. spacious rooms, free hi-speed internet, d free hot breakfast. comfort suites. power up. now stay two separate times with comfort suites. or any choice hotel and earn a free night. book at choicehotels.com.
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