The Greatest Generation
By Walter E. Williams

The “greatest generation” is a term used to describe those Americans who were raised during the Great Depression, fought in World War II, worked in farms and factories and sacrificed for the war effort while maintaining the home front. Following the war, they went on to produce a level of wealth and prosperity heretofore unknown to mankind. There’s no question that this generation made an important contribution. But it might also qualify as the generation that laid the foundation for the greatest betrayal of our nation’s core founding principle: limited federal government exercising only constitutionally enumerated powers….