Posted on 05/18/2005 10:06:08 AM PDT by qam1
Jan Murray believes boomers are right to demand your money.
I am having trouble empathising with the bleating about whose taxes will fund the ageing baby-boomer bunch in the near future. Such mean-hearted tripe. Such chutzpah - the high-chair set having a hissy fit just thinking about the load it's going to have to bear.
So, who started it and how do we stop it is what I want to know. I feel like digging out my pewter jewellery and hurling it at the next Generation-X pet who complains that his or her taxes will be supporting the likes of me because I haven't been clever enough to save for my Zimmer frame.
OK, so a decent slice of your taxes are going to have to keep us in the style we invented and will insist upon while there's breath in our used, abused (and increasingly refused) bodies. Pardon us for making up 39.76 per cent of the population.
Let's just hold that thought while I run through a few home truths.
Imagine a world without teenagers. Who invented the phenomenon? We did. The adolescent baby boomers were the social malcontents of the 50s who cut loose from the oppressive ruck and insisted on being recognised as individuals with a right to be listened to, marketed to and feared by a conservative Yesterday because we were Tomorrow - our own tomorrow, and yours.
Imagine if we had not rebelled. Elvis would have been sent back to his mum to have his mouth washed out. He would still be singing gospel in some clapboard church in Memphis, telling his grandkids how a rush of blood to his head a long time ago made him do some foolish things with his hips.
Look at it this way: the money you've been saving on dentistry - because we gave you flouride in your drinking water - is the equivalent of the tax rise you'll need to come up with on our behalf.
Between sorting my vinyls and renovating my sea-change home, I pause to wonder: why all the ingratitude and grumbling resentment? Should we have left off trying to make this a better world? Should we have just climbed the corporate ladders and left the multinationals to rip down the trees and put in their car parks?
I haven't even touched the 'f' word. This fight alone would be reason enough to drop a donation in as we pass the hat around. I'm not talking flares and fondue, either. Of course the boomers gave the world them. Just as we gave it fast-food, rock'n'roll, heart transplants, aerobics, tantric sex and the F-111. OK, so the Concorde proved to be a dud and the AK-47 was nasty, the multi-function polis never eventuated and body shirts were neither here nor there. But imagine a world without tampons, child care and equal wages.
Yes, I'm talking about feminism. Boomers went in hard on that one, and the Gen -ers who hold up half the sky today need to be reminded with each pay cheque. But that's an argument for another day. Why not just pay up and do it with a smile? Life's too short for hassles, man. Dig?
Gawd. Grow up. This is Baby stuff. Stoopid. Unproductive. And after it's all said and done, the problem will still exist.
sheesh. Work to find a solution, don't add to the problem.
psstt... hey Sally.... Let's all get together and totally ruin the world just so we can piss off gen X. .......
Gawd. What a load, pal. Got a broad enough brush? Here, use this:
In the meantime, while I, who never participated in any of the crap you've accused all of us of, worked every GOP candidate since Nixon, have my own 401K, have been working since I was 16, helped raise my 4 younger siblings, get to eat dog food, you can rest assured that your response was certainly productive. Thank YOU so much.
Sorry, Marie...we had Walter Cronkite. Of course, David Brinkley got it right about Clinton (before he "revised and extended" his remarks).
Look, lots of late boomers aren't boomers at all.
In fact, if you read this thread, you will see plenty who recognize the problem, have voted republican, and can only do so much.
Social (in)security was in place before we were born!
In fact I think that part of the harm done with social security is this generational feuding. It divides families and generations. It is on this thread!
The "greatest generation" didn't have to think too hard about their future, they were the generation that counted on it. The're the most powerful voting block for the last 40 years. And they voted dumbocrat. Late Boomers didn't vote for this stuff. The "greatest generation" did.
Yes, that was Otto Von Bismarck's goal in creating Social Security. Divide and conquer.
Yes, and we see how it's revolutionized our lives by merely replacing the telephone and the post office. The computer, for most, has replaced the typewriter and supplimented the television. Trust me, I've been in the data processing field for 20 years and the internet, while useful, is certainly not all it's cracked up to be.
Clever by far! Great old movie.......
The boomers are going to start paying for their irresponsibility...or we'll kill them.
I think I may be pro-euthenasia/murder.
I'm still trying to decide.
Feminism: Another way to tell your children you don't love them enough to stop working.
Bitches.
It's because of feminism that the FREEDOM OF CHOICE was ripped from women - we used to have A CHOICE of working or staying home. Thanks to feminism, there is no choice .
(For all trolls - please, I don't have the energy to explain it - cheap labor flooding market, depressing wages, two-incomes required to match one, blah, blah - get a book if you don't understand).
You forgot one:
Blowjobs are not considered sex nor are they considered infidelity.
Boomer women must feel special.
(Oh, wait . . . Hope I didn't misinterpret the headline . . . )
I've bought real estate, too. Even if it's just some raw land in addition to your home, it works out well.
Just a friendly reminder when someone wonders why they are not making two more dollars an hour. They already are.
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