More Selfishness From the No-Sacrifice Generation...

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Bill Quick's SS breakdown...

... a Ponzi scheme in which money from the most recent participants goes to fund the payoffs of the first participants, a scam that can continue only as long as a sufficient number of new suckers signs on. We’re running out of suckers, and the Ponzi scheme is collapsing. That is not, nor should it be, a question. The question is what to do about replacing the unsustainable scheme with something workable. Assuming, of course, that the whole structure doesn’t simply collapse before we can get anything done.

He's right.

But if we are to put off the collapse of Social Security, what politically is referred to as "save Social Security", then either

• the productive will be asked to pay more to support the retired,
• the retired will asked to do with diminished benefits,
• or both groups will be asked to sacrifice.

Enter this tidbit from the LA Times...

Upending the conventional notion of parents carefully tending their financial estates to be passed down at the reading of their wills, many baby boomers say they instead plan to spend the money on themselves while they're alive.

In a survey of millionaire boomers by investment firm U.S. Trust, only 49% said it was important to leave money to their children when they die. The low rate was a big surprise for a company that for decades has advised wealthy people how to leave money to their heirs.

As I have noted previously this is the last chance the Boomer Generation will have to do what every generation is required to do for a nation to be successful ... sacrifice. Theirs is a generation that has not only not known sacrifice, but has refused sacrifice and if the above statistic is any indication, theirs is a generation of Americans that will never know sacrifice.

Theirs is a generation that eats its young.

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The Boomer Generation-- No sacrifice, But a Whole Lotta' Suck...

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Flipped past another Woodstock retrospective today.

When has the boomer generation ever known sacrifice?

The Hippies are, and have been "The Man" for some time now. The national debt problem is their pig, but they refuse responsibility for it. Firmly ensconced in moral relativism they selfishly support choice over life, they choose debt over thrift, they choose "The Man" over liberty, and they push poverty on all generations, but their own.

The majority of the boomer generation never gave a thought beyond their own peers. First rejecting the thrift, success and sacrifice of the greatest generation then engorging themselves on a combination of free love, consumerism, and me-ism made possible by the very sacrifice they rejected.

They found no satiation; not in art, not in chemicals, not in communes, not in their incessant self aggrandizing through the media, not in new age nonsense. They are lost in an endless maze of perpetual selfish desire unable to find contentment.

Now with the bill for all their excess firmly on the table, they pass on their last chance at finding contentment through meaningful sacrifice as they pass that bill to subsequent generations.

Once a child, then a hippie, now the man -- perpetually living off the plate of another.

Where once churches and community helped the down trodden we now funnel that help through a soulless government.

Where once we had a melting pot we now have cultural Balkanization.

Where we once had the crisp suit of moral certitude we now have the tie-dyed confusion of moral relativism.

Never before has our country suffered a more worthless, selfish, shiftless, horrible, or gluttonous group of malcontents so intent on shifting their individual responsibility to society at large and beyond than our aging boomer generation who refused all sacrifice.

Thanks for the suck Hippies.
You truly are --- The Worst Generation.
Say no to Woodstock...

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