Re: A Heads Up for US Kids

usenet@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote...
> Here's a heads-up for the US kids who were too young to vote against
George 
> Bush.
> 
> As you listen to your parents and older siblings brag about how they
voted 
> themselves a tax-break, and are ending Social Security;  and as your 
> preachers rattle off the list of people you are supposed to hate, bear
in 
> mind a few things:
> 
> 1.  You will be providing for them in their old age - not because they
will 
> fall on financial hard****p but simply because they have squandered what
they 
> had and are not putting anything away today for tomorrow.
> 2.  You will be paying off their old debts - not because they will fall
on 
> financial har****p but simply because they choose not to pay them,
believing 
> their lives will be better if they leave those obligations to you to
make 
> good upon.
> 3.  You will not have the op****tunities they had - not because you are 
> unresourceful but because they are burning so many bridges, having
already 
> made innumerable enemies (foreign and domestic).
> 
> Signed:
> The X-Generation
> (The first generation of Americans to do worse than their parents)

But not the last such generation.

Good post.

-- 
"Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people 
who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it." 

                                                      - Mark Twain