On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 18:41:53 GMT, "Sanders Kaufman"
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> 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)
Understand though this is not the boomers choices but the leader****p
of the GOP that has engendered this mess. 12 years of Reagan-Bush1 and
8 years of Bush 2 will have added about 6 to 8 trillion to the debt. 8
years of Clinton policies saw surpluses and hopes for paying off debt
and actually having money to see us through the baby boom passage
through social security.
Millions of boomers who voted for Bush 2 did so over comparatively
frivolous issues like prayer in schools, abortion, gay marriage,
abstinence, etc. They took part in a shell game where they were asked
to vote for these things, while the GOP dismantled their safety net
for tax cuts to the wealthy and crony capitalists.
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