Thanks Babyboomers

[Steve Stuck]

I would like to officially extend my hand out to the babyboomer generation who are approaching retirement and/or just now retiring. Thank you for the political mess and economic debt left for 32 year olds and younger people like me to clean up. I mean, from the bottom of my heart, all these years to keep your government in check and spending under control through the mentality of "Fixing it later" is now later. I could even quote our current president who repeatedly says "I inherited this mess".....well, the same can be said about my generation.

Babyboomers came from the greatest generation and valuable lessons could have been learned from them. Yet, once the sacrifices were made and the economics of everything turned around, let the party began! Now fast forward to today, and the nations hangover from the party is being bared by people like me.

So lets reflect of what you have left me and others to fix. Mind you, it will be fixed because the system will fail. I will even use a popular word today to describe it....unsustainable.

- Social Security will not be there for me because you only focused on yourself. I pay into a system that will be dead by 2032 or even sooner. Government borrowing out of it, illegal aliens dipping into the funds and people with non exsistant medical conditions are gettin' paid. Every paycheck I look at my withholdings and feel a wonderful sense of joy in throwing money into a blackhole.

- Medicare/Medicaid are wonderful examples of government run healthcare with trillions in liabilites. All I ask is that there is a competitve system for me to buy my healthcare insurance in private. Nope, Congress mandated HMO's years ago to "fix" the system. Why not just let me buy my health insurance like car insurance? Wow, that is a crazy concept.

- Trillions of dollars in debt. Mathematically, there is no possible way of paying this off under our current government spending and expansion of programs. I got a idea, why not cut back on government spending and start paying off the debt? Crazy I know, but some how "Save More and Spend Less" seems to be a common theme these days.

- Whoring out the "Constitution" was a very great tribute of your generation. Instead of enforcing it or standing up for it, years of courts applying "feelings" and "empathy" rulings are dually noted. Funny, I talk to a lot of people now who are studying the basic premise of it while you back into the shadows in order not to take responsibility.

- Leaving us with millions of pages of regulation and 70,000 pages of a regressive tax system is one of my personal favorites. When your generation began, taxes were to collect revenue and regulation was minimal to make things "regular" or a little bit "safer". Now our system is anti-growth and anti-business. Taxes are now used because someone makes too much money. Regulations are now an intellectualists mental orgasm with the business society that they want imposed or bigger companies paying lobbyists to get rules imposed to wipe out competition.

- Corrupt government. Need I explain what happens when you keep re-electing the same people in decade after decade?

- Destruction the dollar. If you don't understand that, then please study some basic economics and let me know how you feel.

Things will change slowly. After this president and next president are gone, the babyboomers who keep voting and working in DC will be retiring or taking their eternal dirt naps. Serious conversations of pro-business growth and reform will take place.

[Michael Nolan]

Presumably you've taken your parents out back and shot them so they can begin their dirt naps and not draw on Social Security.

Um, boomers did not invent corrupt government. And our economic collapse was the result of GWB and his greedy banker cronies. Don't even get me started on whoring out the constitution. Habeas Corupus anyone?

Yeah, boomers have made our share of mistakes—one of which was raising a bitter person like you.

[PK Koduri]

At least the boomers were politically and socially active unlike the tuned out I-Phone crazy Gen-X and Gen-Ys. Where are they?

[Steve Stuck]

Them being politcally and socially active yet built up more debt and didn't fix the programs that were broke. Yet your statement adds more validity to my argument of how inactive they really were.

Adding debt for further generations is not progressive, it is regressive and lost of standard of living.

[Steve Stuck]

Yes, I am a bitter person from the fact that I wonder where things went wrong and why we just don't start fixing them.

Blaming George Bush for all this is very laughable and tells me you your still not accepting how massive of a mess we are in. Its ok, once the dollar tanks more and we settle in to second world status, you will accept it.

As far as shooting my parents, they are traveling this weekend so a date for that has yet to be determined. Should I use my 9 MM Baretta - Pre-Clinton Magazine ban (That means 16 rounds in the magazine) or my .45 Sig Sauer?

[Tino Marquez Jr.]

Medicare/Medicaid are wonderful examples of government run healthcare with trillions in liabilites. All I ask is that there is a competitve system for me to buy my healthcare insurance in private. Nope, Congress mandated HMO's years ago to "fix" the system. Why not just let me buy my health insurance like car insurance? Wow, that is a crazy concept.

I'm in the same boat. I don't want the Gov. running the health care system (or banks, or car companies, etc... and so on), but what I do want is the ability to get insurance for myself without being denied because of some perceived "previous condition". As an independent consultant I keep getting denied because I've had a scrape before and I sneezed a few years ago. But yet, if I married my gf and I could automatically and immediately be on her insurance. How insane is that? I am not like one of these Obama-bots who wants everything for free and the gov to run my life, I just want the ability to pay for insurance, even if there is a higher fee for those "pre existing conditions".

I blame Bush! :) Because everyone knows, he has single handily ruined the world and those peaceful Muslim extremists certainly liked America when we had a democrat at the helm (Clinton), no sir, they never attacked US interests when the dems were in control, they loved us. Yep, Bush started the mortgage disaster, the swine flu, global warming, and sun spots. He is also the reason the tree in my front lawn has apparently died.