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.
Doesn't matter if they're young or old, she sees such folks as a drag on the economy and on our resources.
At the same time she believes the rich and powerful are both necessary and useful ~ they "NEED" to fly corporate jets across the continent to see live theater. They "NEED" to eat prime beef rather than chuck to save wear and tear on their implanted perfect teeth.
That's Nancy's world ~ the rich are needed, the poor are not needed ~ at least not in today's mechanized world.
Obviously the Algore did not talk to her about "carbon footprints".
I can see Nancy and her kind in their Eagle's Nest getaway, up in the High Sierras, tut tutting the effrontery of the lower classes to be using their cars during pollution alerts to "get to their jobs".
I met such a person once ~ she was my landlady ~ Leona Helmsley.
Fortunately Leona is dead now or I'm sure Nancy would be getting pointers from her.
>>>Anybody who would arrive at this conclusion is as much of a dumbass as Nancy Pelosi. Try DU. More favorable audience for such demented thinking.
Did you for one minute consider the original article/post to be an illustration of absurdity with an absurdity?
Oh yea? OK, I have determined that your cost benefit ratio is now in the red. Time for you to die. You want to kill people because you think they are a burden? What a sick F@ck. We truly are retuning to barbarianism.
Pelosi probably weeps at that movie and wishes we would understand how wonderful that system is. Of course, all congresspeople would be exempt forever, because they are the Anointed and needed to run things for us Little People.
If all the elderly started heavy drinking and smoking it might work, perhaps we should subsidize it, we are funding everything else.
Murder is murder, period, and not an excellent point.
“Contraception. Optional for conservatives and mandatory for liberals. After one generation, no more problem.....”
Works for me!
I hope the mods pull this. It’s embarrassing.
Post 20 has the link, for those who have forgotten it from their high school English Lit classes.
Wasn’t Johnathan Swift a satirist?
I believe the writer of the post is being facetious.
Literary excellence bump
Indeed...which is exactly why I said "Anybody" instead of "you" when I wrote the response.
Google satire. Please!
“If all the elderly started heavy drinking and smoking it might work, perhaps we should subsidize it, we are funding everything else.”
Yeah, my grandfather drank, smoked two packs a day for his entire adult life, and consumed lots of unhealthy fatty foods. It all took him to an early grave at the tender age of eighty-six.
LOL, seemed a natural huh.
Glad to see others understood the connection.
Thanks for the ping.
I remember with Jocelyn Elders said that we had to put more money into HIV/AIDS cures and less into cancer cures because young people had AIDS and old people got cancer. After all old people had already lived their lives so why spend money on them.
I think I’ll send this to some over 60 yrs people I know who voted for Bambi....it will freak THEM out...
SS ‘s problems can be laid at the feet of CONGRESS! Had they not raided it countless times, and pd it out to folks who never paid in, SS would not be in this mess and Americans would be paying in for their own retirement! This is NOT the fault of all who in good faith pad in. I swear the way we treat the elderly in this country is disgraceful.
The other issue, abortion over restraint. What else is there to say.
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