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Penn State, my final loss of faith - Guest Voices - The Washington Post
I don't know what changes he thinks he can make, but I wish him much success.
He has a follow up column here;
How Penn State made me lose faith in my parents' generation - The Washington Post
And a chat transcription here;
How Penn State made me lose faith in my parents' generation - The Washington Post
I speak not specifically of our parents -- I have two loving ones -- but of the public leaders our parents generation has produced. With the demise of my own communitys two most revered leaders, Sandusky and Joe Paterno, I have decided to continue to respect my elders, but to politely tell them, Out of my way.
They have had their time to lead. Times up. Im tired of waiting for them to live up to obligations.
Think of the world our parents generation inherited. They inherited a country of boundless economic prosperity and the highest admiration overseas, produced by the hands of their mothers and fathers. They were safe. For most, they were endowed opportunities to succeed, to prosper, and build on their parents work.
For those of us in our 20s and early 30s, this is not the world we are inheriting.
We looked to Washington to lead us after September 11th. I remember telling my college roommates, in a spate of emotion, that I was thinking of enlisting in the military in the days after the attacks. I expected legions of us -- at the orders of our leader -- to do the same. But nobody asked us. Instead we were told to go shopping.
The times following September 11th called for leadership, not reckless, gluttonous tax cuts. But our leaders then, as now, seemed more concerned with flattery. Then -House Majority Leader and now-convicted felon Tom Delay told us, nothing is more important in the face of a war than cutting taxes. Not exactly Churchillian stuff.
Those of us who did enlist were ordered into Iraq on the promise of being greeted as liberators, in the words of our then-vice president. Several thousand of us are dead from that false promise.
I don't know what changes he thinks he can make, but I wish him much success.
He has a follow up column here;
How Penn State made me lose faith in my parents' generation - The Washington Post
And a chat transcription here;
How Penn State made me lose faith in my parents' generation - The Washington Post