->     >Now let me get this straight. After a nice, long rant about
->     >how people need to take personal responsibility for their
->     >economic and social lives, all of a sudden 1960's radicals
->     >(such as me, I guess) are responsible for poor people's
->     >lifestyles? Tell me how that works--or do you think that poor
->     >people are just too dumb to think for themselves?
->     >
->     >There are many reasons for the disintegration of the family
->     >and support systems in general among this nation's poor.
->     >Somehow I don't think Murphy Brown--or Janis Joplin--is at
->     >the top of any sane person's list.
->     >
->     >You want to go after my generation's vaunted cultural
->     >revolution for a lasting change for the worse, try so-called
->     >"relevant" or "values" education. Hey, it seemed like a good
->     >idea at the time. How were we to know you needed a real
->     >education first--I mean, we took that for granted.
-> 
-> The 1960's generation were the most spoiled and irresponsible.
-> 
-> The Depression had create mothers and fathers that were determined that their
-> kids would not want for anything -- going overboard and creating a nation of
-> brats.
-> 
-> Consider the contrast between two famous events in July of 1969.
-> 
-> Apollo 11 and Woodstock.
-> 
-> Which group had large numbers of people that could not feed themselves and
-> reverted to the cultural level of primitives (defecation in public etc.).
-> 
-> And which group assembled, took care of itself, and dispersed with no damage,
-> no deaths, no large numbers of drug problems ....
-> 

	Wasn't Woodstock also called the biggest parking lot in
history?  They rejected society and went back to nature in their
parent's cars.