Don't Blame the Old-Timers
The whole world is getting older and panic is rampant, particularly in America and Europe.
Well, calm down.
It’s a political problem and political problems have political solutions. Fifty years of buying votes by expanding the “promises franchise” in America and Europe have busted their budgets. Now we must revise the music the politicians before us wrote (and continue to write) because our voices won’t go that high. It’s not going to be pretty, taking all those prescription drugs away from our drugged oldsters. But it’s gotta be done, Pops. Just say no. You were in favor of that for your kids in Nancy Reagan’s day . . . now it’s your turn.
The real problem isn’t even the real problem. Everyone thinks the real problem is the inability to pay, to continue coming up with more and more dough. That’s a problem, sure enough, but it’s not the real problem The real problem is having given a bunch of aging coots everything on their wish-list in order to get the AARP vote and it’s not going to b…