A thanks is due to the younger readers of this blog. As a recent retiree I look forward to your contributions to society (and me)! Here's an excerpt from Nick Gillespie's article at
Reason.com explaining why. You can find the whole article
here. Actually, stop reading this and get back to work. I need the money.
"Hey kids, wake up! Stop playing your X-Box while
listening to your Facebooks on the iPod and wearing your iPad with
the cap turned backwards with the droopy pants and the bikini
underwear listening to
Snoopy Poopy Poop Dogg and the Enema Man and all that!
Take a break from getting yet another tattoo on your ass bone or
your nipples pierced already! And STFU about the 1 Percent vs.
the 99 Percent!
You're not getting screwed by billionaires and
plutocrats. You're getting screwed by Mom and Dad.
Systematically and in all sorts of ways. Old people are
doing everything possible to rob you of your money, your future,
your dignity, and your freedom.
Here's the irony, too (in a sort of Alanis Morissette sense):
You're getting hosed by the very same group that 45 years ago was
bitching and moaning about "the generation gap" and how their
parents just didn't understand what really mattered in life."
Funny stuff, looks like everyone eventually gets their turn! dm
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