About those Baby Boomers, GenX and GenY

This was a post I made in the Washington Post after an article on Obamacare and how few youngsters have signed up for O-Care OR purchased Health insurance in reply to a feather-bedding, driveling BabyBoomer that thought the kids had best join Obama care and/or buy health insurance. Me, I think Obamacare was just another scam against the young. Folks have always showed up without health insurance and the Docs and Hospitals passed it on to the rest of us that DO have health insurance. And they've done it far more efficiently than the government hijacking the fees and passing the benefits onto the Boomers. They didn't call the Boomers the ME generation for nothing. See, I'm a Boomer, younger than the prime center of the generation, but I've been watching since Woodstock and Vietnam, none of whom I was old enough to partake of. But I've been watching the cretins of the Boomer Generation and here's what I really think of em.

"The point of Obamacare was to force the children of today, who don't need much healthcare, to pay for the needs of the baby boomers by forcing them to buy health insurance they again don't, by and large, need. It's just more theft by the boomers against today's youngsters. As if the Medicare, Medicaid and FICA taxes imposed on today's youngsters aren't enough. Now we have to force healthy kids into the pool with the old, sick, greedy boomers, as if the boomers deserve receiving a damned thing from younger generations. The boomers wrecked the economy, shipped all the jobs out of the country via NAFTA and CAFTA and all the Asian treaties that enabled every manufacturer in the country to build elsewhere.

Then, as if THAT wasn't enough, the baby boomers allowed the country to be overrun by cheap, illegal labor at the lower end, cheapening all labor rates. The Baby Boomer generation of course, destroyed organized labor. As if THAT wasn't enough, at the upper end, engineering and science and technology, they allowed untold millions of H1s from India, China and Pakistan come here for half the going wage.

The topper? The baby boomers executed the greatest scam ever by one generation against another: college loans. The boomers then demanded a college degree before entry into the workforce except now, the economy is crashed, there are no jobs and millions of kids are saddled with trillions of dollars of debt for the degree the boomer generation in academia and business insisted was necessary to get a good job. But the boomers in the Educat

But the boomers in the Education Industry (it IS an industry, a big, crooked, greedy industry) arranged loans by greedy banks owned by baby boomers for their younger generations' kids to pay for their education. All the while of course, paying themselves and their professors and their boards billions with multi-digit annual percentage increases in tuition and fees and books (every nook and cranny in the University system if rife with corruption and greed). There was no limit to their greed because it was money borrowed by someone else.

Forcing the younger generation into Obamacare is the ultimate, cherry on the cake topping of theft, all piled up, the greatest theft by one older generation against three younger generations. I really, really hope someone studies all this and writes a book called the Greediest, Most Crooked Generation". It would be an appropriate contrast to Brokaw's book "The Greatest Generation" about the Boomer's Parent's generation."

With the exception of the part on organized labor, I can co-sign a lot of this.

The baby boomers were the first generation who was (imo) spoiled.

They brought about some very good things, but perverted even more-- lol, big topic.

And yeah, O-care is a crock of shit, but so was the system that existed before-- free market would solve the problem and costs would drop.

But-- the people would benefit, and not the gov't and the insurance industry.

Can't have that.


Thanks for posting.


🙂

Posted by Montgomery
With the exception of the part on organized labor, I can co-sign a lot of this.

The baby boomers were the first generation who was (imo) spoiled.

They brought about some very good things, but perverted even more-- lol, big topic.

And yeah, O-care is a crock of shit, but so was the system that existed before-- free market would solve the problem and costs would drop.

But-- the people would benefit, and not the gov't and the insurance industry.

Can't have that.


Thanks for posting.


🙂

Bingo! Allowing interstate commerce would have solved the problem.

Sooo, PLEASE show me the statistics that younger generations do not NEED healthcare?

Because you seem to be forgetting that given all the cheapening of EVERYTHING, also courtesy of baby boomers, that food is utter junk. Factory farming is thriving and with that lovely little entitlement bit you guys passed on to future generations, they're all lazy, dumb, and entitled.

They don't go outside and play. They sit. ...And are on their expensive gaming systems, cell phones, in front of TVs leading an absolutely sedentary life style .

These children are getting type 2 diabetes, something that USED to be considered "adult onset," but because of all the junk that is being fed to children, they're now getting it at the age of 12, and showing streaking in arteries that shouldn't be seen until they're in their 20s-30s.

The way our society has been set up, also by the baby boomer generation, children are going to die before their parents. They are going to suffer ailments that they shouldn't be seeing until they're in their 50s-60s.

This little boy over here is 12, overweight, has high BP, high cholesterol, and type 2 diabetes. He also cannot breathe because of his weight, so he also is on an inhaler.

But he's young and doesn't NEED healthcare.

Or this chick who is in her 20s, overweight, too lazy to go to the gym, has mounting health issues due to her weight. She has to see several doctors to get her weight and related health issues controlled.

But she, too, is young and doesn't NEED healthcare. She'll be okay.

I'm not siding with Obamacare per se, but your ignorant point you made about why they shouldn't have it is utter bullshit. You are quite the reflection of your generation as well- ignorance on current health trends. Just because you didn't see them when you were this age, doesn't mean it's the same now.

The entire issue is multi faceted. You want to get angry, get angry at the previous admins. THEY'RE the ones that started dipping into social security to pay for other crap. I forgot up to what admin wouldn't even touch it, but it's been pretty recent that it started getting dipped into when it wasn't supposed to and now they're scrambling to re-fund it somehow.

This is what happens when you have a generation who was raised utterly oblivious, entitled, raised on credit, and sheltered, trying to manage finances of a country.

Posted by Montgomery
With the exception of the part on organized labor, I can co-sign a lot of this.

The baby boomers were the first generation who was (imo) spoiled.

They brought about some very good things, but perverted even more-- lol, big topic.

And yeah, O-care is a crock of shit, but so was the system that existed before-- free market would solve the problem and costs would drop.

But-- the people would benefit, and not the gov't and the insurance industry.

Can't have that.


Thanks for posting.


🙂

Agree.
Ironically, the whole reason for offering health care benefits can be traced back to FDR and the Emergency Stabilization Act of 1942. In order to attract skilled employees, business began to offer fringe benefits, medical insurance being one of them.
Interesting how things come full circle, isn't it?

Posted by rockyroadicecream
Sooo, PLEASE show me the statistics that younger generations do not NEED healthcare?

He said they don't need "much" healthcare-- and imo, they don't need nearly as much as the over 50 set.

But again-- my opinion.

Posted by rockyroadicecream
The entire issue is multi faceted. You want to get angry, get angry at the previous admins. THEY'RE the ones that started dipping into social security to pay for other crap. I forgot up to what admin wouldn't even touch it, but it's been pretty recent that it started getting dipped into when it wasn't supposed to and now they're scrambling to re-fund it somehow.

This is what happens when you have a generation who was raised utterly oblivious, entitled, raised on credit, and sheltered, trying to manage finances of a country.

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It isn't recent, but you're right-- Social Security has been (mis-)used as a slush-fund by Washington, and we're suffering for that.

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Posted by Montgomery
With the exception of the part on organized labor, I can co-sign a lot of this.

The baby boomers were the first generation who was (imo) spoiled.

They brought about some very good things, but perverted even more-- lol, big topic.

And yeah, O-care is a crock of shit, but so was the system that existed before-- free market would solve the problem and costs would drop.

But-- the people would benefit, and not the gov't and the insurance industry.

Can't have that.


Thanks for posting.


🙂

Agree.
Ironically, the whole reason for offering health care benefits can be traced back to FDR and the Emergency Stabilization Act of 1942. In order to attract skilled employees, business began to offer fringe benefits, medical insurance being one of them.
Interesting how things come full circle, isn't it?

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omgfdr

smh


And yes-- from what I understand, people used to just carry catastrophic.


+1

Posted by Montgomery

Posted by rockyroadicecream
Sooo, PLEASE show me the statistics that younger generations do not NEED healthcare?

He said they don't need "much" healthcare-- and imo, they don't need nearly as much as the over 50 set.

But again-- my opinion.

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Actually, they're getting up there. The current obesity epidemic is making younger people just as sickly as the older ones.

Did you not notice the slew of issues I listed? That goes beyond "much" and into considerable healthcare needs. This is the scary reality that's happening with younger generations.

Oh, and something else to consider- providing accessible healthcare to all ages, especially younger individuals helps catch problems which are all the ailments older people suffer from.

We need preventative in this country. We don't offer shit to prevent anything and by the time they're old and gray, it turns into some major medical issues- many of which could have been curbed/caught ahead of time had they had access to preventative measures that come along with the options of accessible healthcare.

Well, sure enough, Washington Post came out today to announce that they cannot get the young to sign up in sufficient numbers so far. And, as long as they keep pushing the mandate over the horizon, the kids won't sign and pay. The sick, oldster-boomers, and already obese/diabetic are all signed up thank you very much. Healthy kids are looking at the premiums and asking "why me?". Because the young are the last place they can suck the life out of. Boomer Fever--Catch It!