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To: motor_racer
.......seem so desparate to oppose a plan intended only to improve things for younger people.....because they are stubborn obstinate old bastards that are concerned only for their own welfare. That's why they are called slang names like geezers, codgers, crumudgeouns etc.

BTW....I will be 70 years old in two years....so I know old.....and I can recognize a geezer when I see one. I am not really old yet, but I can see it from here.....and I pray that the SS system is changed so that you whipper-snapers can at least break even if you decide to pack it in.

16 posted on 02/22/2005 6:52:35 PM PST by B.O. Plenty (Liberalism is a terminal disease.......)
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To: B.O. Plenty

"because they are stubborn obstinate old bastards that are concerned only for their own welfare"

Yeah, we need to be clear. It's not all older people. Many older people are the most generous members of our society.

But it reminds me of something that happened to me recently. I was at the airport on the Big Island of Hawaii, in the rental car bus. A group of 3 older people got on the bus, with massive amounts of luggage. Made the driver carry their bags all over the place, and didn't give him a tip (like all the other passengers did.) And, while on the bus, they were complaining about the service at their four-star hotel (the Fairmont Orchid), the service on United Airlines, their property taxes, and how they voted for George Bush and now he's going to cut their Social Security benefits. These are people departing from a $300/night hotel in Hawaii. If that's not a greedy, uniformed "geezer", I don't know what is.


28 posted on 02/22/2005 7:58:59 PM PST by nj26
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