Posted on 01/26/2009 4:37:27 PM PST by Yaelle
While it may be very unpleasant for us to realize that lowering the number of helpless people dependent on hardworking Americans for their survival will help our economy get back on the right track, Nancy Pelosi has a solid point about salvation through contraception. Still, can we dare to insist that people refrain from bringing new life into the world? Young people crave becoming parents. Working hard to support their babies is not drudgery for most young parents; indeed, it's a labor of love. And, notwithstanding, most contraception devices fail at least 20% of the time, and abortion is abhorrent to some Americans.
It's time to focus on Ms. Pelosi's solution with our hearts and minds, and realize where the burden of population hurts our economy the most. For which people do Americans most resent working longer hours and paying extra in taxes? Certainly not the chubby-cheeked, adorable babies in strollers all across this nation. Not the pigtailed little girls running races in their mary jane sneakers on the playground, nor the lanky young men playing basketball or studying hard to make something of themselves. We all see the promise of a better day in their smiling faces.
Today, Americans are living into their eighties with ease, and many are still alive long into their nineties. While some of our senior citizens are prized for their knowledge and adored by their relatives, many have become woefully unproductive as members of society. Our finest corporations spend more than 50% of their payroll expenditures on their retirees, in pensions and healthcare. Social Security and Medicare were killing us before Bush added the additional $350 billion entitlement of the Seniors Prescription Act. As more and more Baby Boomers pass the retirement age, our economy will be stunned with the amount of taxpayer money needed to support these people far into this century, and it will only get worse as the decades pass.
Crinkly old faces, smelly gray heads, and dementia-induced repetition do not endear taxpayers to put out up to 70% of their income to support others. American workers secretly resent that their better years are spent slaving away to support people whose time has passed, who have no longer any "skin in the game," to borrow a phrase from the President. The elderly often demand health care that could only have been dreamed of in earlier decades. All of these new treatments and options cost money, and these costs are unfairly burdening the young and the strong.
While Nancy Pelosi has correctly seen that our economic system would function in a more streamlined fashion if only we needed less people to support, she did not quite understand that asking people not to have babies goes against the desires of young adults. Today, most twenty-somethings are entranced by celebrity babies and precious miniature fashion, drippy preschool paintings, and baby hiphop classes. It would be unAmerican to ask these young people not to procreate. Yet these same Americans have a hard time pretending they enjoy supporting other people's grandparents in relative luxury while they themselves must scrimp on electronics or vacations.
I only ask that we stop to consider what will most spur the emotions of young taxpaying Americans today. When our younger American workers are happy, and feel good about themselves, they will work hard and succeed, and make our great nation a gleaming strong economic machine once more. This will not happen if they lose the ability to have precious tiny versions of themselves, waiting for their turn to be young and strong and working for America as well. Yet if we could even reduce our senior citizen population by half, not only would they probably not be missed but billions of dollars are freed up for creating jobs both in the public and private sectors.
Nancy Pelosi must bring up the unpleasant subject of asking our elderly to sacrifice for our great nation. We are not asking a lifetime. We would only need to lower our national lifespan average by five to ten years a head in order to be able to sustain the streamlined economy so many of us dream about. So many of these years are spent attached to a bedpan in a lonely wheelchair, unable to work or to bring anything of note to our society. In many ways, giving up those last few years will actually be a pleasure for our seniors. And how promising those years will be indeed to a new generation of healthy, young Americans, on whose dreams this country is built.
Did I miss the “/sarc” notice somewhere?
Nancy would prefer brunettes ~ who smell like garlic ~ but why quibble.
Are you sponge-worthy?
I think at the beginning, she intimated she wasn’t a “insert good lampoonist name here”, but here goes.
No problem. Take care DTogo.
On the other hand I myself read Pelosi's words and what she said means she wants to rid the nation of those she thinks to be "useless eaters".
It would make more sense to Euthanize the old folks.
I thought so, which is why I didn’t spout off. You might want to include a (satire) tag with pieces such as this one, though. Some freepers don’t recognize satire when they see it, probably because the real news just isnt that much different these days...
One has to question whether or not the libs understand what will happen to this country if they have there way. I am not talking about the ones in DC, but the rank and file libs.
They are messing up the demographic makeup of the county by allowing illegal immigration to go unchecked, and by killing millions of innocent babies every year. This will effect social security as the massive number of people who will soon retire will strain the system as never before. Social security will fail. If an innocent baby is a burden to o, how much more will the old nonproductive elderly be to him? I am sure that they will decide that it would be better for the ill elderly senior citizens to die than to be a burden (for their own good, of course). Watch out AARP. There will be riots, and o will send his CNSF (national civilian security force) to handle this problem. They will push doctor assisted suicide laws to make it easier to get rid of the elderly. What will an elderly lib do when he gets his/her notice to report to the government doctor for their “treatment.” I am sure that the CNSF will be happy to pick you up and take you to the camp, oops I mean national health facility. And since you libs believe in gun control, you will not be able to resist. Good luck.
Libs are not only mentally ill, they are suicidal.
Math a la Pelosi
Birth control = abortion
Exactly. Thank you for getting what I meant. Pelosi is getting close to eugenics...
**Nancy Pelosi must bring up the unpleasant subject of asking our elderly to sacrifice for our great nation.**
No euthanasia at all.
Eugenics would mean eliminating people like Pelosi. She’s into “terror”.
Little by little, the last man standing, qualified to "get" health care will be the local garden gnome.
OUTSTANDING satire! I figured it was, Yaelle...but had to scroll the comments to make sure...otherwise I was gonna take a big swing at you.
Thanks for the ping. OUTSTANDING.
“Eugenics would mean eliminating people like Pelosi. She’s into “terror”.”
That explains why she looks so terrifying.
;-)
This won’t help us any. One, my friends said that it costs very little for her birth control pills as long as you get generic. I think she said less than 20 dollars a month. Two, only problem we have are the irresponsible people who keep birthing kids, and they wouldn’t use any form of birth control even if the government provides it free. They make money off the system having kids.
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