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A soup kitchen. these same young women their brothers, uncle, fathers were tortured on the death march, slaughtered like fish in a barrel on the beaches of norman they were tremendously traumatized by that and the main kids would never have to go through anything like that again. these are mothers who had suffered their whole lives. they consider a home with a white picket fence to be the dream of a lifetime. they lavished enormous amount of love on their kids. they gave them anything they wante...

>> the next clip is where we show the mothers that -- the mothers of the 50s. we show their lives. june cleaver, donna reed. the great depression, world war ii where they had nothing. their husbands, boyfriends, uncles, in the 1950s their objective was to have a nurturing environment so that would never happen again to their children. thats where it stars. >> sean: lets roll the tape. >> people misunderstand the 1950s. they think in terms of june cleaver and donna reed. as if everybody was discr...

Get a 50 x 100 lot, a cape cod house, four kids, three older sisters and one bathroom, not good. but this was the -- were they too indulgent because of their experiences? >> i think that is is right. thats what we explain in the film. we go through how that generationaé1%]z wanted to prott and really do the best they could for their kids pause they didnt want them -- they had seen what the great depression had been. they had seen world war ii and just the meat grinder that our boys signed up fo...

Well is what we saw here. in them.tv old way it was done, you had to have personal responsibility. but this new generation, it seemed like the concept of personal responsibility was left in the mud at woodstock kind of what we say. really they lost track of who they were and it was all about me, the me generation. >> the investment banks are incredibly important in the post-war era building the united states to industrial power. partnerships with men who fought in world war ii and put their cou...

Special. generation zero. the new documentary part of which you just saw examines the current economic crisis, but also how we got here. the movie refutes the popular notion that massive deregulation caused the economic downturn and as liberals say capitalism failed. so what happened? this ground breaking film reveals a frightening alliance between the democratic party and big business. it turns to history for answers, finding many of them within the baby boomer generation of for the hour well e...

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Only the current economic cries is sis we are in but also how we got here. the movie completely refused the popular notion the massive deregulation caused the economic downturn and capitalism failed. what actually happened? this ground breaking film reveals a frightening alliance between democratic party and big business. it also turns to his for answers finding many of them within t the -- baby boomer generation. we will examine all of this we are joined by writer protector of "generation" zero...

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And one bathroom. not good. but this was the american -- were they too indulgent because of their experiences? >> i think thats 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 didnt 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 thats what they did...

Power in our politicians or fundamentally shift to basic american values to work ethic, entrepreneur shichl. de centralization, local government, volunteerism all of the things for the last 400 years that made us so dramatically different than europe and more productive than anybody else in the planet. >> becomes a type of testing and adversity and becomes a time when the best quality of every generation becomes to the surface and becomes important in steering the history in a good direction. ea...