The best thing most baby boomers can do now is to stop whining and start preparing to give everything we have robbed from the future back to those in line behind us, sooner than later ideally, and to fade away as gracefully as our sordid history will allow. While there is small section of th…
The best thing most baby boomers can do now is to stop whining and start preparing to give everything we have robbed from the future back to those in line behind us, sooner than later ideally, and to fade away as gracefully as our sordid history will allow. While there is small section of the baby boomer generation in the first world that truly suffered most of us have had a unprecedented life of relative ease and leisure that we in no way earned (to all those saying in response that I may speak for myself but that you earned yours I call BS). We had the good fortune to show up at the right time in the right place to allow us to breeze through life like no other generation before. We still complained all the way along but it was snivelling whining founded on a notion of entitlement truly astounding in its arrogance. Our lack of care for the damage we were doing to the future at the start and our pathetic sticking of our collective heads in the sand instead of stepping up to take a hit for the future when we started to realize just how badly we had f’ed it up makes us failures at the only important job we had, to just be decent human beings (there is no real argument about what this means at its core- only those trying to rationalize their own failure to meet the standard argue about what the standard is). To the very end we grasp onto the delusion that we somehow earned or deserve the wealth we cobbled together and that we are right to fight it being taken back, even though we know full well that doing so just dooms the future to more and more misery. You can’t take it with you and others need it more. Pay your F’ing taxes, stop abusing the health care system to keep yourself breathing beyond your time, stop electing clowns that have no concept of what it means to be a public servant, give away everything. Redeem yourself. Not because it will let you live on beyond this life, it won’t. It is what a decent human being would do and our children deserve that we at least step up to that modest mark.
I'm curious, what happens to all the money when one dies in where you live? They don't give it to their children? And what people are abusing the health care system? Not the ones that have paid into it their whole lives. And how do you not pay taxes if you are working.
Warning! The following will be a bit of a rant.
The best thing most baby boomers can do now is to stop whining and start preparing to give everything we have robbed from the future back to those in line behind us, sooner than later ideally, and to fade away as gracefully as our sordid history will allow. While there is small section of the baby boomer generation in the first world that truly suffered most of us have had a unprecedented life of relative ease and leisure that we in no way earned (to all those saying in response that I may speak for myself but that you earned yours I call BS). We had the good fortune to show up at the right time in the right place to allow us to breeze through life like no other generation before. We still complained all the way along but it was snivelling whining founded on a notion of entitlement truly astounding in its arrogance. Our lack of care for the damage we were doing to the future at the start and our pathetic sticking of our collective heads in the sand instead of stepping up to take a hit for the future when we started to realize just how badly we had f’ed it up makes us failures at the only important job we had, to just be decent human beings (there is no real argument about what this means at its core- only those trying to rationalize their own failure to meet the standard argue about what the standard is). To the very end we grasp onto the delusion that we somehow earned or deserve the wealth we cobbled together and that we are right to fight it being taken back, even though we know full well that doing so just dooms the future to more and more misery. You can’t take it with you and others need it more. Pay your F’ing taxes, stop abusing the health care system to keep yourself breathing beyond your time, stop electing clowns that have no concept of what it means to be a public servant, give away everything. Redeem yourself. Not because it will let you live on beyond this life, it won’t. It is what a decent human being would do and our children deserve that we at least step up to that modest mark.
great rant!
Big boomer approval from this corner on that rant!
I liked that rant! - just how I feel on many things.
I'm curious, what happens to all the money when one dies in where you live? They don't give it to their children? And what people are abusing the health care system? Not the ones that have paid into it their whole lives. And how do you not pay taxes if you are working.