You - and the rest of your generation - voted for them.
Reap what you sow.
You - and the rest of your generation - voted for them.
Reap what you sow.
Bullshit!
You responded: "You - and the rest of your generation - voted for them. Reap what you sow."
Exactly. bttt
Thursday, July 28, 2011
The Worstest Generation: Hope They Die Before I Get Old!
"....Obama is simply the final fruition of that retrograde impulse. If he prevails in 2012, it certainly won't be a result of the post-boomers whom he treats as his personal piggy bank. Rather, he'll need widespread support of the greedy and entitled Worstest Generation. ....."
I’m continually amazed how exercised people get over SS, a program boomers have paid into their entire work lives, and yet we hear not one word from those same complainers about the now $950 billion annually that goes to welfare recipients and others who aren’t working at all, Medicaid being the biggest of the programs.
It is the monstrous growth in programs that are a disincentive to work, for people of working age, that has made it almost impossible to ever balance our federal budget, not SS. One in seven Americans now on food stamps, etc.
SS can can be fixed by raising the retirement age based upon life expectancy and some means testing, and other reforms.
You can’t blame the boomers. They didn’t create the system. They have paid into their whole lives and we can’t break the promise to them. It is going to be the duty of the X’ers to pay into the system to take care of the agreement to our parents even though the agreement was forced upon them by corrupt politicians.
There are people that have introduced plans in congress to “fix it” but we can’t even get a budget out of them. You really think we could get something constructive?
I think we as a generation (genX) are going to have to pay into it our whole working lives and not recieve it later in life.
I know myself and many others would be willing to do this so our children don’t have to face this problem. Not something I want to do, but you can’t pick your challenges just how you handle them.
The American People.
For the past 150 years plus we have voted more and more ass-hats into federal offices who set about to subvert the Constitution in the name of getting reelected.
Now understand many of those folks really were not aware they were actually subverting the Constitution many thought they were actually doing something good. Of course there were many like FDR and the Progressives who knew exactly what they were doing!
The government of the United States was never intended to be a Sugar Daddy. When we started passing out money and services in the name of social equality we started down the slippery slope.
The problem is now we are all unlucky enough to live in the era when are going to hit the bottom of that ride down the slippery slope.
However, there is one good thing about hitting bottom. You can only go up for there!
Even the most aggressive measures to reform goverment spending and government dependency by its citizenery won’t address the underlying cause.
That’s because the deficit that matters the most isn’t dollars. Its currency of the heart and mind. Its a manifestation of values within which we subscribe our actions, our purposes and our values. It is a deficit of CHARACTER, which arguably is the root of all our major economic and social troubles today.
Your character is not defined by what you say you believe. It’s defined by the choices you make. History painfully records when a people allow their personal character to dissipate they become putty in the hands of tyrants and demagogues. Such tyranny often takes the form of actual rulers, but it can also involve serfdom of our nobler nature to a lord of lustful impulse.
Among the traits that define strong character are honesty, humility, self-discipline, courage, self-reliance and long-term thinking.
HOW WE SUBTRACT FROM OUR CHARACTER
When a person spurns his conscience and fails to do what is right he subtracts from his character. When he eveades his responsibilities, foists his problems and burdens on others, or fails to exert self-discipline; when he allows or encourages wrong doing on any scale; when he attempts to refom the world without first reforming himself; when he obligates the yet-unborn to pay his current bills for him; when he expects politicians to solve problems that are his alone; he subtracts from his character-and drags the rest of us down with him.
Mountainous debts, unconscionable deficits, irresponsible bailouts and reckless spending: These are all economic problems that sprang first from character problems.
Refrom starts with recognition. Not the easy kind that points out flaws in others, but the hard kind that reflects on, then roots out, errors in ourselves.
It is wrong to take a dollar from the responsible and give it to the irresponsible, which is why many of us decry the billion-dollar bailouts given to reckless, but politically well-connected government agencies and private firms/individuals. Yet how many of us accepted tax payer funded aid to buy a house we couldn’t afford, go to an expensive college we couldn’t afford or pay for a family member to go to an assistaed living facility because it would allow us to not have to sacrifice our current lifestyle?
We would express outrage over parents who, after borrowing heavily to buy expensive gadgets and meals, then cancel their childrens preschool when the bills came due. So why do we cheer for government cutbacks as long as it is our neighbor getting cut and not us?
Once upon a time in America, most citizens expected government to keep the peace and otherwise leave them alone. We built a vibrant, self-reliant, entrepeneurial culture with strong families and solid values.
Somewhere along the way we lost our moral compass. Like the Roman Republic that rose on integrity and collapsed in turpitude, we thought the “bread and circuses” government could provide for us and would buy us comfort and security. We act as if we really do not want to be free and responsible citizens, so we get less responsibility from our leaders and less freedom for us.
Our federal government is ultimately a reflection of our self-government so Americans who are serious about fixing the country’s fiscal mess must begin by fixing their own character.
RESOULTIONS FOR REFORM
I pledge myself to a lifetime of self-improvement so I can be a model of integrity that friends, family and acquaintenances will want to emulate.
I resolve to show the utmost reverence and respect for the lives, property and rights of my fellow citizens. I will remember that government money is really my neighbor’s money, so I will not vote to loot them. I will stand on my own two feet, behave like an adult in a free and civil society and expect the same from my children.
If I need help I will ask my family, friends, faith network, neighbors, local charities or even strangers first and government LAST.
If I have a good idea I will resolve to elict support for it through peaceful persuasion, not the force of government. I will not ask politicians to foist it on others because I think it is good for them.
I resolve to help others who genuinely need it by involving myself directly or by supporting those who provide assistance through charitable institutions. I will not complain about a problem and then insist that government tinker with it at twice the cost and half the effectiveness.
Finally I will resolve that the highest authority in which I place my strongest faith will not be the United States Congress.
Full article link: http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0611/character_deficit.php3
The Baby Boomers: America’s Failed Generation.
What has the Boomers done? It was the boomers that made the Reagan revolution happen. Take a gander at the tea party gatherings around the country and you’ll see more boomers than anyone else. We vote and we participate. Younger generations could learn a few things from us.
Entitlements started way before babyboomers
and the age group you are belittling are about the only reliable group that has voted GOP by a fat margin in recent elections
kids sure don’t
if everyone voted like any age white in Mississippi or Alabama we’d all be in high cotton
One thing that GWBush did attempt to get done was to privatize SS and the majority acted deaf, dumb, and blind. And that ‘fault’ rests on all American voters.
The debt crisis is simply one facet of what ails America.
It begins with thinking one can live independently of God, what He provides, His Plan, and the legitimate authority He has established in institutions He has given man in His grace.
I recently visited LA and listened to a number of people blaming the Congressional Republicans for the problems. Amazingly, these same people see nothing wrong with running up credit card debt, vice simply withholding their luxery purchases.
They have become so far removed from paying a fair dollar they have earned themselves for a dollar of commodity, that they think they are unaccountable for their purchases.
There are many women and minorities and poor who have been given so much by charity and grace from all facets of worldly institutions, that they have come to place their faith in that system of living independent of God.
So scarred is their thinking, that they now believe they have ‘rights’ to receive the charity on a reoccurring basis and for it to escalate with any perceived hardships.
Inalienable rights derive from God, but the manmade rights which those who place their faith in, other than God, are not immutable, nor eternal, nor inalienable, but can just as easily be removed from them as when they were so flippantly given.
This is evidence in an appeals trial for those who assert good works performed without a righteous faith in God through Christ are recognizable for eternal reward. All of those man-made institutions which previously gave charity, but not through faith in Christ result in the degeneration of those giving and receiving them independent of faith in Christ. It demonstrates the exceedingly sinfulness of sin. (Sin as in missing the mark in God’s Plan, not simply immorality.)
We have become a degenerate nation and will not recover until we face Him, return to Him, and perform by His Will.
Not just voted for them, they ARE them!
We’ve been screwed by politicians of all ages that care more about themselves than the country, along with citizens of all ages that feel that same way. So many have sold out this country for their own personal profit, or for a free lunch. Most of us the working middle class never did, but are now getting the shaft for it all. I think we’ll recover, but not before we’re taken to the brink, and we’re not there yet.
Doesn’t really matter who is to blame at this point.
We as a country right now are on a course for a Default.
All of us that are Baby Boomers, for the majority of us, there will be no Social Security or Medicare. Alt least not as our parents and grandparents had it. I suspect we get nothing.
The whole house of cards is about ready to fall in, so get ready for it.
No we didn’t.
When the US Government fails. When civilization fails. When the Dark Ages descend upon us, will it matter who voted for who? WE have to fix this soon, either by peaceful means or not.
“The fact that Congress has not done a very good job of keeping up with what is really happening in the world: life expectancy, better medical care.”
Oh not at all - they’ve taken care of that giving us CommieCare.
That’ll shift the balance.
Using your logic, the current situation is all your fault; The resultant ObamaCare, Porkulus, etc. is now all on your shoulders because you voted for them.
Reap what you sow.