Baby boomers will need to be culled

[Cronus Protagonist]

I predict this will be a future Washington Post headline. After all, how is the cost of their long-term retirement going to be paid with Bush throwing dollars around Iraq in bales like it's hay at harvest time?

I'm sorry to have to point out that we're going to have to thin the herd. Baby boomers need to give up at least 47% of themselves. The only question is how do we handle it? Are concentration camps for infected and/or disabled losers who have no health insurance or money completely out of the question?

I wonder if that's who all these new camps are for...


:silly:

[NoAmericanTaliban]

1. Soylent Green

"its people i'm tellin you, people"

[Cronus Protagonist]

3. As long as they don't have bird flu

The bird flu story seems like a psy ops setup for mass extermination of the elderly and infirm. Instead of taking them to the death camps, take the death to them in the community. Hide it in plain sight and all that... make sure there's proper pr work done in the media to set it all up.

I wonder who in the world has the antidote?

hmmmm....

:tinfoilhat:

[scarletlib]

10. if this bird flu does mutate to infect humans and pass from

human to human then it will most likely kill the young and the strong. If you haven't read the book on this subject by John M. Barry, I highly recommend it. It's "The Great Influenza"

He discusses the influenza epidemic of 1918. That was a newly mutated flu virus that killed more young people than old. The reason was that this flu was so different that the young people had no immunity to it. The elder were somewhat more protected because over a lifetime they had had more exposure to flu viruses and therefore the body was able to offer some immunity to the new virus.

If this particular flu does make the jump to humans it could truly mutate into a virus that be much like the one of 1918. Let's hope not.

[linazelle]

2. No the camps are for holidays. The bird flu will take care of it.

:sarcasm:

[Spinzonner]

4. Well, we could just wander out onto the ice and disappear

but all the ice is melting

[Historic NY]

5. Wandering to Vegas to hit medical jackpot...............

states lotteries for medical proceedures......a real cottage industry in the works.

[VolcanoJen]

6. "Baby boomers need to give up at least 47% of themselves"

It's really too bad we don't have a DU rating system... that's some sensical talk, right there. :-)

[NobleCynic]

7. There's always one option...

renew! renew!

[HereSince1628]

8. Take it from a boomer...Don't trust anyone Under 40 or over 75.

To the bunkers!!!! Lock yer assets up and eat organic. Top off, Turn on, and tune out.

These groups hate us for our money.

[TallahasseeGrannie]

9. Baby Boomers won't be messed with

they (we) are a formidible group.

[lynne]

13. I second that emotion !

Did the OP not realize that we Boomer's are still very much the largest segment of the population and are also likely a large percentage of DU????

Ahhhh . . . the fallacies of youth! ;)

[TallahasseeGrannie]

14. Yes indeed

and we invented the Internets!

Plus, I have plenty of money to pay for prescriptions, thank you! I've worked all my life and always put something away.

Now, those concentration camps...I think they are called nursing homes.

[lynne]

22. I've got my "camp" all picked out -

- it's just a short "rascal ride" from a favorite local hang-out and I'm trying to convince all my friends to make reservations!

All my friends in one spot and no lawns to mow, no errands to run! Just IMAGINE the parties . . . provided we can keep from breaking a hip, that is! :party:

[Deja Q]

23. Your lot also called my lot "Generation X". Translated, that means

"Generation Screwed".

Generation Y is simply that. "Why did you let it happen?"

What's the name of the current generation, unless we're still in "Y".

And I know as well as the BB's and the Y's that we're all fucked.

This birdie flu, mad cow, mercury fish, smelly air, disdain of American infrastructure, and everything else will do it anyway. Eventually.

[bobbieinok]

25. there was a 'dot con' generation + a 'milenium' generation

but I've really lost track; what group is geneation X, Y, etc????

[Minnesota Libra]

11. Bird flu anyone? High prescription prices that boomers can't afford nt

[TallahasseeGrannie]

16. Considering that the bird flu

is supposed to hit next year and be gone shortly after, and that Boomers right now are in the highest earning years of our lives, plus our parents are dying and leaving us what THEY have left....it's too early to worry too much about us.

We've made mega bucks on our houses, paid off our credit cards and have those nifty IRA's and such. With inflation starting up, the housing market going down, real wages getting lower, jobs harder to find...I think the Boomers will have to cull Generation X. You know WE CAN.


heheheheh

only half kidding. I feel sorry for the economics of the next generations. Thank BushCo for THAT.

Plus, if we have to "go back to the land" and live in communes we will. Been there and done that. I can milk a goat in 3 minutes.

[BiggJawn]

17. But I'm a poor boomer.

All I have is my paycheck. Guess that puts me in the 47% who become soylent Green...

[TallahasseeGrannie]

19. Just come to the secret

meeting. Yasgar's Farm. Be there.

[Minnesota Libra]

18. I especially like this part of your response........

"......Been there and done that. I can milk a goat in 3 minutes."

You and me both. This is going to age me but I have a daughter who was/is allergic to cow's milk. This was before the soy based formulas hit the market so we had to buy three goats to provide her with milk. It might take a little while to brush up on those milking skills but I'd get back to it in short order.

Believe, I do indeed think the commune living will make a comeback. The way this country is going it will be the only way some people will be able to financially make it.

[TallahasseeGrannie]

20. I pretty much live in a quasi commune as it is

My daughter and her family live with us, but it isn't "living with Mom and Dad." We pool all our money and the work and we are a family. We're making it. They have energy, we have the money. Someday the roles will reverse. Well, actually, we are unlikely to get more energetic!

[DoYouEverWonder]

12. Wow, what did you eat last night?

Didn't they tell you not to eat the brown acid? ;-)

[misternormal]

15. The "new and improved"...

... medicare prescription plan is a start...

It makes sure that those that need the medicine in a lot of cases will have to choose between starving to death, or paying for some of their meds.

They are already working on "Thinning the heard"

[kayice]

21. Count me in for the camp, I'm disabled and poor......

and even better....for them....I've got fresh blood. I hate those asswipes.

[ngGale]

24. Head for the hills ...

:scared:

Yep, the Medicare Rx plan is a good start...