(Continued from “Change Is All You Need") **The Obama Years ** To be fair, Jimmy Carter inherited a country that needed a lot of work. Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society programs, built on Roosevelt’s economically untenable New Deal welfare state, had set the nation’s economy and social classes on a path to destruction a decade earlier. The self-absorption of the Baby Boomers decayed the social institutions and mores that sustained us for 200 years. The Greatest Generation (a term yet to be coined) were entering the pre-retirement years, and their kids were none too interested in hard work–at least, not yet. The Arab oil embargo and subsequent OPEC controls had driven up the price of oil and, along with it, everything that depends on petroleum.
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(Continued from “Change Is All You Need") **The Obama Years ** To be fair, Jimmy Carter inherited a country that needed a lot of work. Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society programs, built on Roosevelt’s economically untenable New Deal welfare state, had set the nation’s economy and social classes on a path to destruction a decade earlier. The self-absorption of the Baby Boomers decayed the social institutions and mores that sustained us for 200 years. The Greatest Generation (a term yet to be coined) were entering the pre-retirement years, and their kids were none too interested in hard work–at least, not yet. The Arab oil embargo and subsequent OPEC controls had driven up the price of oil and, along with it, everything that depends on petroleum.