Changes?
I blame the baby boomers for everything that's wrong with this country. Curse their self centered selfish generation.
They were born with silver spoons. They partied in the sixties and we got harsh drugs laws and a federal 21 drinking age.
They partied even harder in the 1970s with cocaine, and we ended up with aids and crack.
They inherited a great infrastructure, but when it came their turn to pay taxes for maintenance, they refused, and now we have crumbling infrastructure. Where is their great infrastructure achievement for their generation?
They got cheap and in some cases free post secondary education, tax funded of course, but not now, no... because now they would have had to pay for it. Its so bad that we don't even have enough nurses to take care of the boomers own elderly parents.
They all want to retire at age 55, in fact the feel entitled to retire at 55 and what did they do? They bloated the stock market up like a rotting cow, hoping that it wouldn't burst before they all retired, and now its exploded and we're left to pay for their greed.
They all want medicare and social security, but of course did not want to pay taxes to ensure that the fund had enough money, instead, again they wanted lower taxes and had the government skim the money out of social security. So they got their low taxes but of course like selfish children they still want social security... and their solution is that all of us to pay for them
Its like the Aesop fable of the god dam grasshopper and the ant, they are the grasshoppers and we're the ants. They fiddled, farted, partied, crapped all over the place and its going to be our job to clean up their messes. Welcome to the service sector, "would you like to super-size your load with a McDepends?"
If its one reason why I was glad to see PBO be elected, it was because he is the first post baby boomer to be elected, which IMO is one reason why some many white hairs show up at Tea parties and stuff, its because they are the selfish generation and they are greedy POS and don't want to held accountable... surprise surprise. They want to retire and leave us all with the bills.
Fact is, is that after we fix the roads and the bridges and the other infrastructure, bring sanity back to drug laws, properly fund education, fix the stock market, re-float medicare and social security, and cure aids... I really doubt that we will have anything left in our wallets to build our futures. That in a nutshell is baby-boomer socialism, they party and we're their servants picking up the tab and cleaning up after them. It is quite possible that the boomer generation may have dug a hole so deep that will take a few generations to fix it. Too bad we can't tell them all to grow the F up and fix it before they check out.... or better yet make them fix it. That's change I could believe in. Unfortunately the tides of change are still outflowing like before a tsunami as we get deeper in debt, then will come the financial tidal waves.
Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes
(Turn and face the strain)
Ch-ch-Changes
Don't tell t hem to grow up and out of it
Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes
(Turn and face the strain)
Ch-ch-Changes
Where's your shame
You've left us up to our necks in it
Time may change me
But you can't trace time
(Changes - David Bowie)
