The Atlanta Journal Constitution is reporting some crazy scary news that hopefully may have some people questioning the intelligence behind killing an entire generation in the womb.
Some of our aging baby boomers may be delaying their retirement because of current economic conditions, but eventually they’ll step away. In fact, we expect 40 percent of the U.S. workforce to retire over the next five years.
Now, of course,the editorial doesn’t consider the fact that we’re going to have to support all those seniors but we’re missing 50 million people that could’ve helped us do so.
This sounds like a disaster in the making.
The generation that’s getting ready to retire is the generation that pushed Congress to massively increase benefits to retirees, for which younger generations will be forced to pick up the bill. And it’s the same older generation that allowed the legalization of abortion and killed a large percentage of the younger generation.
I don’t mean all of you obviously. But for those who cheered government mismanagement for years, thanks. Thanks a lot. For those who stood idly by as millions were killed in the womb, kudos to your apathy.
Happy Retirement!
I know the older generation is called “The Greatest Generation.” The following generations should be called “The Lesser Generation” to take note of the fact that so many of us never made it out of the womb.
June 11, 2012 at 7:51 pm
My understanding is that the greatest generation are those who lived through the great depression and/or fought in WWII. Therefore, the boomers don't qualify. Though, you are probably being facetious. 🙂
As a thirty-something adult, don't think that irony isn't lost on me. I resent that my generation will have to dig us out of the mess made by some of our more selfish forbears. And, I mourn the fact that my children may never know the great and beautiful country that I was blessed to have as a child.
June 11, 2012 at 8:05 pm
The Greatest Generation raised the boomers. I think that may require them to give up the title.
June 11, 2012 at 9:57 pm
The Greatest Generation gave their kids what they wanted, not what they needed. Their mistake for doing that, shame on everyone since then for continuing the practice.
As to abortion, that is how deals with the Devil go. It isn't trading one thing for something else, it is trading one thing for nothing. In the end, it will be a miracle if there is not euthanasia of the elderly on an industrial scale. They weren't killing their offspring so they could have la vita dulce, they were killing them so that a doctor would kill them too one day.
June 12, 2012 at 12:20 am
I overheard a co-worker of mine today refer to his children (preschool age twins) as "the poor man's retirement program." I think he was more profoundly right than even he realized.
Elaine
June 12, 2012 at 1:26 am
The majority in Roe v.Wade – Blackmun,Burger, Douglas, Brennan, Stewart, Marshall, and Powell. All members of the Greatest Generation. Can't blame us boomers for everything.
June 12, 2012 at 2:37 am
That stat sounds absurd. I dont believe it. 40%?
June 12, 2012 at 2:40 am
40% in the next five years?????? Can that be remotely correct?
June 12, 2012 at 4:35 am
For the record, Roe v Wade was filed in 1969. The leading edge of the boomers were then in their very early 20s, and far more concerned about VietNam than abortion. The Supreme Court justices and the attornies who brought the suit were not boomers, they were older. The boomers inherited abortion, they didn't bring it. And the 40% stat cannot possibly be accurate, either.
June 12, 2012 at 2:09 pm
I'm thinking forced euthanasia is in our future. The Boomers are going to be expensive and they didn't have enough children to take care of them.
June 12, 2012 at 10:02 pm
@Siobhan: no, 40% of the workforce can easily retire in the next five years. It's 40% of the current workforce. But it's less alarming than it sounds, because at least part of that will be replaced. It's like those speeches in tough colleges where they say "look to your left and right; odds are, both of those people will drop out within four years"—schools don't lose 66% of their enrollment numbers when that happens, more people enroll in the interim.
RE: Greatest Generation, I personally say defeating Nazism and spawning the Baby Boomers pretty much cancel each other out.
And as for forced euthanasia, that would be nemesis for all their support for "population control" policies that worked out as "genocide of brown people". One could do it much more humanely as "if you were married and chose not to have kids, you get only palliative care"—but strangely, I think a lot of people would prefer to do it the hard way.