[Diogenesis]

[beaversmom]

Ping

[beaversmom]

He does it with such great humor, but he’s all too dead serious.

[chuck_the_tv_out]

[mylife]

I wonder how long it will be before the yute of America realize how bad the screwed up?

[mylife]

I had the pleasure of talking to the students of Hillsdale College last week, and endeavored to explain what it is they're being lined up for in a 21st century America of more government, more regulation, less opportunity and less prosperity: When you come to take your seat at the American table (to use another phrase politicians are fond of), you'll find the geezers, boomers and X-ers have all gone to the men's room, and you're the only one sitting there when the waiter presents the check. That's you: Generation Checks.

[samtheman]

The problem with blaming this all on the Democrats is that George Bush felt it was “urgent” to push through a prescription drug bill, and felt it was “prudent” to spend the first six years of his presidency never vetoing a single spending bill and he thought it was “critical” that he get the “bailout package” in October 2008.

When the Republicans have absolutely no principles in regard to spending, how can you expect the Democrats to have any.

Now of course, The Big Giant Zero is going crazy with debt, but George Bush led the way.

[ChetNavVet]

Nice, I admire Mr. Steyn’s writings, he “apparently”
overlooks the very real possibility that the young will not work to pay off the massive debt of thier predecessors, and “overlooks” the very real threat of revolt.

I love it, it’s like “wake up stupid”. I sincely hope that the NEA (AKA the brainwasher) gets overthrown by the very youth its job is to corrupt.

I’ll be optomistic in the sense that 20 years from now we will have a nation that either pays its debts, fulfills its commitments, and when “pay to play” happens, it means at least 50 years in jail, or they will all live in despair.

[Katarina]

Great commentary by Steyn, thank you.

[hershey]

Absolutely wonderful column by Steyn. The youthful dolts who voted for Obama won’t ‘get it’ until they have to pony up, and for college kids, that’s when they start paying their own bills, or in other words, join the work force. And won’t they be offended. Imagine the response at this Hillsdale college speech. Well, those kids ‘got it’, and I imagine few if any voted for the big O. I can’t picture Yale or Berkeley asking Steyn to speak; they’d be protesting him as a racist and hate monger.

[autumnraine]

All those really cool 18-30 year olds who were so cool to vote for someone cool on the TV instead of some old white geezer will be feeling the effect of this all their lives.

I hope at the least they recognize their vote means a little something and pay more attention.

[PGalt]

They’re selling the rights to collect on our labor, like we were slaves on the auction block. They’re selling our children and grandchildren as futures contracts.

5 posted on Wednesday, March 11, 2009 4:36:45 AM by JerseyHighlander

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2204017/posts

[SouthDixie]

“Why the hell did you old coots do this to us?”

Quite frankly, I'm surmising the little dears would be voting for Obama anyway.
His "O"ness is priming them to be the obedient socialists of the next generation.

[PGalt]

GM is a welfare project masquerading as economic activity.

And we are picking up the tab for that one also. Almost all man-made calamities (and the greatest man-made calamaties) have been brought about by a scum-sucking, low-life, criminal-thinking, POS, lyin socialist/collectivist/gang/criminal/thug.

[pnut22]

Just how many of these yutes who voted for change still live in mom’s basement and have to ask for 5 bucks just to buy a pack of smokes? Wait.. since the big O they need 6 bucks!

[Non-Sequitur]

Oh come on. Where was Steyn when the debt doubled over the last 8 years? Government has been living beyond its means and we have been passing it along to the next generation for decades, and now all of a sudden Steyn has remorse?

[SC DOC]

I predict that it won’t be long before Obama begins to foment generational warfare and demonize the elderly, just like he has done with the wealthy vs. the poor. He will likely re-introduce the theme of former Colorado Governor Richard Lamm that the elderly have a “duty to die” as an obligation to society. I wouldn’t be surprised if there are Medicare cutbacks in health care procedures that are approved if you are beyond a certain age.

[HANG THE EXPENSE]

Never pass up an oppurtunity to remind the teen agers and young adults just how they have sh!t in their own dinner bucket for voting for the marxist.

[Paul Ross]

The iteration that Steyn repeats, is so damning, all with his sense of humor, I can't stop laugh...and simultaneously crying:

The Bailout and the Tarp and the Stimulus and the Multi-Trillion Budget and Tarp 2 and Stimulus 2 and Tarp and Stimulus Meet Frankenstein and The Wolf Man are like the old Saturday-morning cliffhanger serials your grandpa used to enjoy. But now he doesn't have to grab his walker and totter down to the Rialto, because he can just switch on the news and every week there's his plucky little hero Big Government facing the same old crisis: Why, there's yet another exciting spending bill with 12 zeroes on the end, but unfortunately there seems to be some question about whether they have the votes to pass it. Oh, no!

And then, just as the fate of another gazillion dollars of pork and waste hangs in the balance, Arlen Specter or one of those lady senators from Maine dashes to the cliff edge and gives a helping hand, and phew, this week's spendapalooza sails through. But don't worry, there'll be another exciting episode of Trillion-Buck Rogers of the 21st Century next week!

[Dustbunny]

Thank GOD for people like Mark Steyn, he totally nails it once again.