Posted on 08/06/2003 4:21:34 PM PDT by AdamSelene235
Edited on 04/22/2004 12:36:55 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largess from the public treasury.
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Simple. Don't live in CA. Don't have kids. Put as much $ under the mattress as possible. Invest in pill companies and Harleys. That's this Gen-Xer's life plan.
You are very wise. Except we need to have lots of kids to outbreed the libs (which won't be hard thanks to abortions and civil unions)
Well I reckon yer right about the outbreeding but I also reckon that it won't make that much of a difference if one person don't contribute. Meaning me. Kids are dagnabbed expensive.
Time for a remake of "Logan's Run." Anyone remember that? "RUNNER!"
Yes they are darn expensive. I was hoping you'd pick up the slack for me....LOL.
This is all just a bunch of boring words. There's nothing here. Move on. Go back to your video games and hip hop music. This is just for people who, like, vote and stuff. Nothing bad will happen. You can use the money you save by downloading music from Kazaa to pay for this.
Social Security, Medicare, whatever. It's all just a lot of stupid stuff for older people to worry about. Your young, man. Everyone else wishes they could be you because you're young. So don't sweat it. It doesn't affect you. Besides, X-Box is a lot more fun. Politics is boring, dude.
Hey, check out Google and see if you can find the name of that chick Kobe did.
Go to hell, you donkey f&&**#r
Signed,
A GenXer
YEP, I pulled my GenX kids out to homeschool them! I wasn't planning to wait 10-20 years for the schools to get fixed. Sorry 'bout that.
"... they ignored the immigrant problem (and still are),.."
Well, the immigrants wouldn't be a problem if it weren't for all the GD socialist wealth re-distribution schemes.
"..the boomer CEO's are offshoring as fast as they can,.."
My company is a European based outfit. Our CEO just bought a Texas based factory in 1999. We're looking to expand in the good ole USA.
"..they're voting themselves entitlements at the Xer's expense."
This libertarian boomer NEVER has and NEVER will vote for any such wealth redistribution. Go paint with your broad brush somewhere else.
"As for a lesson in saving money who gave us the social security/medicare burden?"
Pre-"boomer" son. FDR's New Deal (way before "boomers") started this crap.
I'm 56 and I am a Boomer. I want prescription drugs, free. I want food stamps. I want my golf club membership subsidized. I want my Social Security entitlement increased. I earned it. I want it. I demand it!! I went to Vietnam. My education and no down payment on my first house are not enough! I want lower taxes. I want free nursing home care! I want respect!! (This is parody..but I am a 56 year-old boomer..).
Guess what we did in the '60s when we didn't like the way things were going? We got involved in political campaigns, we voted, we protested, we were general pains in the a-- to those we objected to. Not all of us became CEOs. Many did things to help their communities, became teachers, firemen, police, and had productive careers. There were some bad parents, sure, but that certainly wasn't an invention of our generation.
We were the generation that got good educations, because of the Sputnik thing and having to send stuff to the moon before the Russians did. We had music and discussions that were about real stuff...the world, values, philosophy, life.
Preparing for our careers was a serious endeavor. You know what was immeasurably better than it is for Xers today? Most of us knew if we did our jobs well, we would be able to raise our kids in one community, and stay in that environment while they grew up. This job insecurity of today stinks, no question.
I don't want to overgeneralize. I just don't thing you can blame the whole generation for the CEO greedy creeps who are our peers. After all, it's the boomers who lost the pensions and savings in the stock market that don't really have the time to recoup.
Hey. It's cool. Dubya is my president, too. We won, man. We beat those lousy liberals. Dig it.
MANY of the Gen X'ers (I am one) associate with are STRONG libertarians and dislike the Republicans and HATE the Democrats. The next 20-30 years should be interesting.
FANTASTIC! I hope you are right!
I agree. But I didn't play the "generation card", the Republicans did with the greatest expasion of the welfare state since LBJ.
I think that's very possible. I was talking with a liberal Baby Boomer about to retire. He was complaining about how ungrateful the "youth" today are to his generation, something how his generation paved the way, changed things so that people are much more socially conscious, aware and all that. I pointed out that the youth have no good reason to be grateful, they're stuck with a Social Security system they can never afford, crime rates were very low in the 50's compared with what they are now etc.
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