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11 Responses to “baby boomers where do you stand?”

1. justgetitright

   March 17, 2011 at 10:50 am

   Like the military members of today, I volunteered for the Army and did not even like LBJ but I was not fighting for him.

   I think that it should be noted that back in the 60′s going on welfare was not something that anyone wanted to do. A person on welfare was viewed as a burden to society and the only ones that ever took it were those that had absolutely no choice, they needed a way to feed their families.

   I never felt bad helping these people out because I know that they did their damnedest to stay off of welfare. How sorry this country has become when pride is thrown out the window and one feels that they are entitled to any and everything.

   We now have families that teach their children the art of living off the people rather than to learn to be self sufficient and work for what you need and want.

   When first started I thought that affirmative action would give minorities a level paying field, as it drug on I found it impossible to accepted to most of the big name colleges. I was not alone, even after getting out of school a friend of mine was finding it very difficult to get into medical school, it was not a lack of money since his dad was a doctor and was just filthy rich, his problem was he was WHITE.

   Social Security has been raped and pillaged, the Fed owes SS more than $2 trillion. The baby boomers are the lucky ones, they will get theirs (at least I am getting mine) but I feel bad for those that were born after 1972 because SS will be bankrupt.

   Just before I turned 50 I received a letter and membership form from AARP telling me of all the benefits of being a member. I sent the form back with GFY written on the application.

   AARP is left wing, every insurance policy that they endorse and is bought through them they get a kick back. Is it any wonder that they support the health care bill despite the massive cuts to Medicare Advantage, a program designed to assist the elderly and disabled obtain affordable medication.

   I have already sent in my absentee ballot and I have voted for fiscal conservatives and those that I thought best equipped to do the job. This included a libertarian (CA Insurance Commissioner)
2. rightwing radical 1

   March 17, 2011 at 10:50 am

   I don’t like it.
3. Aw Shut The Heck Up

   March 17, 2011 at 10:50 am

   Right in the middle of the tea party protest – thats where I stand
4. Drayak

   March 17, 2011 at 10:50 am

   Well I was not sent to Vietnam, but served during it, and my idea of a good Democrat is one not in office.
5. Ed

   March 17, 2011 at 10:50 am

   Your views do not reflect mine.
6. Demsmierda

   March 17, 2011 at 10:50 am

   Wow!

   You staggered me. Perhaps I had blocked some of your facts out of my mind.

   Thank you for a Great Question!!!!

   But now I’m Depressed.

   But Excited about voting soon!!!!!!!!!!!
7. katwalker

   March 17, 2011 at 10:50 am

   Perusing my voter pamphlet now! Gee, so far I can’t seem to find a Democrat worth voting for.
8. Bethany J

   March 17, 2011 at 10:50 am

   My parents continually cut up AARP cards they receive in the mail and send them back to those Democrats. They want nothing to do with that organization that gives a ton of money to Democrat candidates.
9. pat z

   March 17, 2011 at 10:50 am

   Social security is being attacked by so-called tea party attendees (many of whom are, wait for it, collecting social security! and Medicare, which is linked to social security).
   Feeble attempts at establishing universal health care have been gutted by special interest groups so that "health care", even in its latest proposed incarnation, remains really big business with an eye on profits (and NOT service!) and the HMOs/ insurance and pharmaceutical companies continue to get richer.
   Democratic President Bill Clinton (for all his peccadilloes) delivered a balanced budget to his successor, who, in eight years managed to create the largest deficit the United States has ever had in its entire history, engage in not one but two wars (costing far too many lives and even more money), seriously set back human rights in America (wiretapping without judicial consent, dropping habeus corpus for "certain" people charged with a crime), continued to give big corporations all kinds of tax breaks at the expense of the middle class and encouraged the rape of natural resources. George W. Bush’s "foreign policy" was a shambles.
   America is fading because too many people are too greedy, too narrow-minded and too ignorant.
10. Maria R

    March 17, 2011 at 10:50 am

    I stand with a foot to the past and one to the future.no party affiliation here, but candidate , their record, stand on laws , moral issues, and the right to free speech, that seems to be loosing.
11. chinacat sunflower PRC

    March 17, 2011 at 10:50 am

    I stand with Obama, although I’d prefer a REAL liberal like Dennis Kucinich in the White House.
    I do NOT appreciate my hard-earned tax dollars going to moms with 12 kids and 12 different baby-daddies. But I’d rather my money went to feed hungry kids than to build bombs.
    As to my job going to someone less-qualified, I assure you that no one else on the planet wants my job.
    It’s the REPUBLICANS who are proposing cutting SS as a means to "balance the budget". Wonder why they weren’t thinking of the budget when Bush declared his little wars?
    And btw, my husband’s 401k tanked under BUSH, not Obama.
    The Dems have always had my vote and they will next month as well.
    Pat—what a great post. Nice to see someone express some intelligent sentiments!