Posted on 02/11/2009 10:01:11 AM PST by moneyrunner
Traveling through Florida, as I have been for some weeks, you see these underutilized assets all about you. They are everywhere, like rich, virgin topsoil ready to be planted and then harvested. What's more, harvesting these assets to put some real money into circulation does not go against the core values of the ruling Democratic majority. It merely extends them to the logical conclusion. Like the culling of the herd before birth through the use of abortion to get the nonproductive out of the way before they can consume resources, it is time our older citizens -- far past their usefulness, their productive years, but likely to consume lots of resources for decades to come -- were, quite simply, liquidated.
Yes, it's time for mom and pop and granny and grandpop to go. All 37 million of them must be transformed from codger to compost if the American dream is not to become a new-age nightmare. It's time for a government program from coast to coast to make sure that every American over the age of 65 takes one for the team -- in the form of a government approved and delivered .22 bullet in the back of the head.
Now I know that some may think me harsh in my prescription for continuing prosperity among the Baby Boomers and their offspring, but hear me out because, to coin a phrase, "There's gold in them thar grannies."
The summary execution of every man and woman in America over the age of 65 brings two immediate benefits to the United States.
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I guess this isn’t so bad. Most dystopian sci-fi I’ve read along this line is killing people off well before 65.
Ouch...that's gonna leave a mark, LOL!
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This brings to mind Colorado’s Democratic governor Richard Lamm, who said that senior citizens have a “duty to die.”
A different sci-fi story had a very different outcome. The idea was to interconnect hundreds or thousands of senior citizens to supercomputer moderated virtual group consciousness. The concept was that each persons special capabilities could be shared by many others at the same time, as if they were doing it as well.
Say you were confined to a wheelchair. You could tap into anyone who was still walking on the intranet, and experience, to some extent, what they were experiencing in close to real time. In many ways, they could act as proxies for you as well. Doing things like visiting your grandchildren in another city, so you could see and hear them, while that other person spoke for you.
An example was of an elderly woman in her kitchen, trying to make chocolate chip cookies. But she doesn’t remember how. Someone else, who makes good cc cookies, is invited to walk her through it. The elderly woman still sees her kitchen and makes the cookies, while her invisible friend tells her what to do next.
Over time, while retaining their individuality, people would become more and more part of the group consciousness, chatting within it instead of their own internal dialogue.
The supercomputer, for its part, would retain increasingly more of an individual’s personality and experience, so even after they passed away, what they had contributed would continue to contribute.
Well, given the complete lack of concern about the SocSec and Medicare bubble, even to the point that the current administration is content to HALT THE COLLECTION OF MONEY (suspend the “payroll tax”) for the program, what other solution do they possibly have in mind?
Gallows humor aside, the problem is that this is inevitable and is already starting to happen in Old Europe.
Already, we get weekly stories about Britons in their late fifties and up who are told that they don’t qualify for treatment for their ailments.
The recent revelations about Daschle’s little clause in the stimulus plan is illuminating.
Socialized medicine is the hammer. Impending national bankruptcy is the anvil.
At the very least we ought to encourage old people to resume smoking (or take up the habit if they never started). We'll sell them on the "Alzheimer's prevention" angle. As smokers, they'll not only enjoy a relaxing habit and look cool but they'll also fund children's health care through tobacco taxes. As a further bonus, they'll die sooner saving on Social Security and the additional medical costs associated with extreme longevity. It really is a win-win!
Smoking. Do it for the children.
Today I had lunch with my MIL. In the course of conversation, I explained to her what was actually in the bill, in noninflammatory terms. I didn't embellish, I just told her what was actually in the bill. (dr. compliance, recommended treatments, “meaningful user”, etc.)
Her response? “Well, I can see the need for a patient record data base, but they won't dictate patient care. They wouldn't do *that*.”
I explained to her that that part was actually in writing in the bill. I said, “They wrote that they are going to do it, the passed the bill, what makes you think that they won't do what they say?”
She said, “Oh, they just wouldn't do it.”
My ever-so-helpful husband added, “It's impossible. It's just to big of a job. The federal government couldn't organize that much information.”
I asked how the IRS does it. He said, “Well, they had a head start.”
My son had a similar conversation with an Obama supporter friend. The guy said that my son was LYING and that Obama wouldn't do half the things he was being accused of. (Like giving 4.1 billion to ACORN.)
So that's going to be the way of it. Denial and refusing to accept delivery of the facts. THIS is what we're really up against.
Even my own brother is not immune to this idiocy, he's a bigwig at a major health insurance company. I asked him, that when Obama nationalizes health care you will be out of a job so why would you vote for him? Because you are essentially voting yourself out of a job. He just doesn't believe it, I get the same "Oh, they just wouldn't do it.” response you did.
So that's going to be the way of it. Denial and refusing to accept delivery of the facts. THIS is what we're really up against.
Unfortunately that is so true.
Everyday at lunch, just listening to all the ridiculous qualities people ascribe to Obama is enough to make you scream, it's just mind blowing, Try telling them different and out comes the Deer in the Headlights look.
The idea you describe is quite similar to the “noosphere” described by (controversial Jesuit priest and Piltdown Man forger) Teilhard de Chardin. He thought that a consciousness greater than an individual consciousness would develop, either by technological or spiritual means, and that this would be the next stage in the human evolution toward spiritual unity with God.
Although one may ridicule this mysticism, I have always found it an interesting idea. The internet is, in fact, strikingly close to what he envisioned in the 1940s.
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