This is a comment and response from a NYT discussion of recent deficit reduction machinations. I believe it may be used by historians and sociologists as primary source material to illustrate nearly 60 years of societal dysfunction. Sort of like the way paleontologists use fossilized dinosaur shit.
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It's time for the Baby Boomers to take to the streets again. Our new motto should be "Never Trust Anyone Under 55." The focus of our demonstrations has shifted from Southeast Asia ( where our jobs have been outsourced by the Robber Barons) to every state capital in Middle America where meanspirited miserly Republican governors are determined to neuter the civil service and reduce what's left of the Middle Class to groveling servititude. We Baby Boomers are going to stick it to the Man again, just like the good old days.Only this time around we're goingto circle the wagons to defend our Social Security benefits, including Medicaid and Medicare.
Peace folks! *********
Thanks, but I think the less baby boomers we have the better. These problems began on YOUR watch, as you sat idly by through decades of Republican tax cuts and military expansion. Wish you'd saved a little more along the way while you were at it. Moreover, Boomers are proving to be the most selfish lot, and therefore the least likely to be able to forge a solution for the common good. You basically demonstrate this in your comment, which focuses on YOUR social security and medicare.
Feel free to march in the streets if it will keep you busy, but the "untrustworthy" under 55 (I guess that makes about 95% of senators trustworthy?!) would rather you spent some more time saving so we don't have to support you for the next 70 years as you do everything possible under the sun to extend your life in retirement.
