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1 posted on 08/13/2011 1:13:33 PM PDT by Publius804
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The Boomers have spent the inheritance of wealth their forefathers built up for 200 years, and after that they went on to bankrupt their children and grandchildren by spending their future earnings as well.

They are without a doubt, the worst generation in American history.


54 posted on 08/13/2011 7:17:34 PM PDT by Truthsearcher
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I watched both my mother and my father grow old and die in nursing homes. Many people here who are over 50 will have had this experience. Most younger people have not had to go through this yet.

This is what I learned from watching my parents and others in the nursing home - Dying when you are old and in a nursing home is a long slow drawn out process. It is painful, frightening, humiliating and expensive. A huge amount of money is spent on these helpless old people in the last year of their lives.

There are a few ways to deal with this this:

1. Pay for expensive medical care to keep them alive and in less pain. This probably means higher taxes for the next generation.

2. Let them just lay there and suffer.

3. Do what we do for a pet that we love when it comes to the end of it's life and is in pain and doesn't have much longer to live.

You can pick one of these, get mad at me for talking about this, or suggest a 4th possibility.

I loved my mother and father, but as I watched what they were going through I wished it were legal to give them peace like I have done with my pets.

60 posted on 08/13/2011 8:11:04 PM PDT by RonBush
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