Welcome, kids, to the Brokest Generation

The young aren't to blame for this mess, but they'll be paying for it.

Just between you, me, and the old, the late middle-aged and the early
middle-aged: Isn't it terrific to be able to stick it to the young? I
mean, imagine how bad all this economic-type stuff would be if our
kids and grandkids hadn't offered to pick up the tab.

Well, OK, they didn't exactly "offer" but they did stand around behind
Barack Obama at all those campaign rallies helping him look dynamic
and telegenic and earnestly chanting hopey-hopey-changey-changey. And
"Yes, we can!"

Which is a pretty open-ended commitment.

Are you sure you young folks will be able to pay off this massive
Mount Spendmore of multitrillion-dollar debts we've piled up on you?

"Yes, we can!"

We thought you'd say that! God bless the youth of America! We of the
Greatest Generation, the Boomers and Generation X salute you, the
plucky members of the Brokest Generation, the Gloomers and Generation
Y, as in "Why the hell did you old coots do this to us?"

Because, as politicians like to say, it's about "the future of all our
children." And the future of all our children is that they'll be
paying off the past of all their grandparents. At 12 percent of GDP,
this year's deficit is the highest since the Second World War, and
prioritizes not economic vitality but massive expansion of government.
But hey, it's not our problem. As Lord Keynes observed, "In the long
run we're all dead." Well, most of us will be. But not you youngsters,
not for a while. So we've figured it out: You're the ultimate credit
market, and the rest of us are all preapproved!

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 zeros 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!

This is the biggest generational transfer of wealth in the history of
the world. If you're an 18-year-old middle-class hopeychanger, look at
the way your parents and grandparents live: It's not going to be like
that for you. You're going to have a smaller house, and a smaller car
– if not a basement flat and a bus ticket. You didn't get us into this
catastrophe. But you're going to be stuck with the tab, just like the
Germans got stuck with paying reparations for the catastrophe of the
First World War. True, the Germans were actually in the war, whereas
in the current crisis you guys were just goofing around at school,
dozing through Diversity Studies and hoping to ace Anger Management
class. But tough. That's the way it goes.

I had the pleasure of talking to the students of Hillsdale College
last week, and I 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.

The Teleprompter Kid says not to worry: His budget numbers are based
on projections that the economy will decline 1.2 percent this year and
then grow 4 percent every year thereafter. Do you believe that? In
fact, does he believe that? This is the guy who keeps telling us this
is the worst economic crisis in 70 years, and it turns out it's just a
1-percent decline for a couple more months, and then party time
resumes? And, come to that, wasn't there a (notably unprojected) 6.2
percent drop in GDP just in the last quarter of 2008?

Whatever. Growth may be lower than projected, but who's to say all
those new programs, agencies, entitlements and other boondoggles won't
also turn out to cost less than anticipated? Might as well be
optimistic, right?

Youth is wasted on the young, said Bernard Shaw. So the geezers
appropriated it. We love the youthful sense of living in the moment,
without a care, without the burdens of responsibility – free to go
wild and crazy and splash out for Tony Danza in dinner theatre in
Florida where we bought the condo we couldn't afford. But we also love
the idealism of youth: We want to help the sick and heal the planet by
voting for massive unsustainable government programs. Like the young,
we're still finding ourselves, but when we find ourselves stuck with a
medical bill or a foreclosure notice it's great to be able to call
home and say, "Whoops, I got into a bit of a hole this month. Do you
think you could advance me a couple of trillion just to tide me over?"
And if there's no one at home but a couple of second-graders, who
cares? In supporting the political class in its present behavior,
America has gone to the bank and given its kids a massive breach-of-
trust fund.

I mentioned a few weeks ago the calamitous reality of the U.S. auto
industry. General Motors has 96,000 employees but provides health
benefits to over a million people. They can never sell enough cars to
make that math add up. In fact, selling cars doesn't help, as they
lose money on each model. GM is a welfare project masquerading as
economic activity. And, after the Obama transformation, America will
be, too. The young need to recognize that this is their fight. They
need to stop chanting along with the hopeychangey dirges and do
something more effective, like form the anti-AARP: The association of
Americans who'll never be able to retire.

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wrote:
Welcome, kids, to the Brokest Generation

The young aren't to blame for this mess, but they'll be paying for it.

How is this different from Reagan, Bush (41 and 43)?

On Mar 15, 9:56*am, dave wrote:
wrote:
Welcome, kids, to the Brokest Generation

The young aren't to blame for this mess, but they'll be paying for it.

How is this different from Reagan, Bush (41 and 43)?

Why don't YOU explain it to us with your infinite reservoir of
omnipotent Liberal Fascist wisdom and knowledge and all.
[We wait with bated breath.]

On Mar 15, 9:56*am, dave wrote:
wrote:
Welcome, kids, to the Brokest Generation

The young aren't to blame for this mess, but they'll be paying for it.

How is this different from Reagan, Bush (41 and 43)?

Only an imbecile would ask such an ignorant question.

When are YOU, Dr.DaviD, PhD [Piled Highest & Deepest], ever going to
do your own reading and research, ah, thinking?

Here is a hint for your tiny feeble little mind to ponder for the rest
of your pathetic useless life:

Personal Freedom/Free Market Capitalism Vs. Serfdom/Government
Socialism.

ARE YOU AS DUMB AS A BAG OF ROCKS?
YOU SHOULD BE A POSTER CHILD FOR THE PRO-CHOICE CROWD.

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On Mar 15, 9:56 am, dave wrote:
wrote:
Welcome, kids, to the Brokest Generation

The young aren't to blame for this mess, but they'll be paying for it.

How is this different from Reagan, Bush (41 and 43)?

Only an imbecile would ask such an ignorant question.
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Only an asshole would blame the new guy for what the other guy did.

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On Mar 15, 9:56 am, dave wrote:
wrote:
Welcome, kids, to the Brokest Generation

The young aren't to blame for this mess, but they'll be paying for it.

How is this different from Reagan, Bush (41 and 43)?

Only an imbecile would ask such an ignorant question.
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Only an asshole would blame the new guy for what the other guy did.




There isn't any shortage of aholes, sadly.

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On Mar 15, 11:33*am, wrote:
On Mar 15, 9:56*am, dave wrote:

wrote:
Welcome, kids, to the Brokest Generation

The young aren't to blame for this mess, but they'll be paying for it..

How is this different from Reagan, Bush (41 and 43)?

Only an imbecile would ask such an ignorant question.

When are YOU, Dr.DaviD, PhD [Piled Highest & Deepest], ever going to
do your own reading and research, ah, thinking?

Here is a hint for your tiny feeble little mind to ponder for the rest
of your pathetic useless life:

Personal Freedom/Free Market Capitalism Vs. Serfdom/Government
Socialism.

ARE YOU AS DUMB AS A BAG OF ROCKS?
YOU SHOULD BE A POSTER CHILD FOR THE PRO-CHOICE CROWD.

What is sooooo fun about right wingers is there inability to think
through a sentence. For instance they will support personal freedom
but if you want the personal freedom to get the day after pill, well,
you should be in jail. The right wing want lots of personal freedom
as long as it means that you can't burn our flag.

Personal freedom, free market means the same thing, sort of like the
copy right notice on a song, just some legalisms only for lawyers. No
repug has ever been in favor of freedom. They are in favor of doing
what ever they do. They want every one to be just like they are. If
Rush can do it, well, you can. Of course Rush abhors dope so that
should be illegal. He likes hill billy heroin thought.....

On Mar 15, 2:38*pm, Kevin Cunningham wrote:
On Mar 15, 11:33*am, wrote:





On Mar 15, 9:56*am, dave wrote:

wrote:
Welcome, kids, to the Brokest Generation

The young aren't to blame for this mess, but they'll be paying for it.

How is this different from Reagan, Bush (41 and 43)?

Only an imbecile would ask such an ignorant question.

When are YOU, Dr.DaviD, PhD [Piled Highest & Deepest], ever going to
do your own reading and research, ah, thinking?

Here is a hint for your tiny feeble little mind to ponder for the rest
of your pathetic useless life:

Personal Freedom/Free Market Capitalism Vs. Serfdom/Government
Socialism.

ARE YOU AS DUMB AS A BAG OF ROCKS?
YOU SHOULD BE A POSTER CHILD FOR THE PRO-CHOICE CROWD.

What is sooooo fun about right wingers is there inability to think
through a sentence. *For instance they will support personal freedom
but if you want the personal freedom to get the day after pill, well,
you should be in jail. *The right wing want lots of personal freedom
as long as it means that you can't burn our flag.

Personal freedom, free market means the same thing, sort of like the
copy right notice on a song, just some legalisms only for lawyers. *No
repug has ever been in favor of freedom. *They are in favor of doing
what ever they do. *They want every one to be just like they are. *If
Rush can do it, well, you can. *Of course Rush abhors dope so that
should be illegal. *He likes hill billy heroin thought.....- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

LOL - You are not advocating for "Freedom".
You are advocating "Moral Relativism", which is a fallacy, and "Theft"
and "Anarchy".
In breif - YOU DON"T KNOW WHAT IS FREEDOM.
But you most certainly will learn the hard way after you have lost
every ounce of Freedom you have remaining.
By then it will be too late - Bye Bye.

There isn't any shortage of aholes, sadly.



Let Professor DaviD answer for himself.

"~ RHF" wrote in message
...
Meanwhile the Obama-Regime© does nothing
to protect America's Sovereignty from the
encroachment by Russia into Cuba putting
Bombers and ?Missiles? within a few Miles
of the US Mainland.

And you know this how?