What one must understand if not learn the first time is that boomers who are in mid century probably have no understanding of the average sixty year old. I should qualify that but I won’t. I hesitate naught when I say the average gullible overextended home buyer in the last decade was not born during Truman’s campaign. Though his children may be the new local buyers who are opting for the 4500sq ft house from the upper six’s. That’s right folks. You can get a 4% loan for a monthly mortgage payment of less than five grand if you decide to go full blown thirty year loan. Or u can gamble like dear dad and go for a zero down interest only slot. Yes Tim they’re still available. Let’s slide on down to the Benz dealership later for a test drive. Parked only outside they are like landscape decor musts.

I must depart and add that describing the psychodrama of the JFK years is apt. I dare say and I will in fact add that it would be hard to find any self respecting boomer who wishes they had not been born to run. It was the worst of times. It was the very worst of times. Women were called girls generally and Mad Men were well you know vapid. Business was for the very complex unorthodox self righteous valedictorian. Doctor? Lawyer? Or mail man? Nurse. Teacher? Home maker? That’s the list. A few more professions but for the most part there was little society had to offer. Today? Really u need to think about the choices kids have today? OK the jobs are slim but were u around in 1970 looking for a job? Where is your discharge paper?

But we don’t blame the generation before us. So why do people even think of blaming an entire generation of so called boomers? Oh my. Lumping Bain with the average ‘boomer’? What a cop out. Why not just compare me to Hemingway and Einstein? Or Mead and Roth? What’s that Salk guy got on me anyway? Jackie Robinson? Let’s not discuss Glass Steagall without mentioning Bill’s capitulation to greed. Capitulation is not the right word. More like love making. Bill would feel at home with Scrooge McDuck in the vault swimming in cash. So let’s face it the we in we are an entitled bunch should be worn only by those whose feet are comfy in the shoes. Boomers do not feel entitled. We feel fortunate to be alive. We feel thanks for those who fought in VN. We loathe the current crop of lazy overpriced celebrities and politicians. We are grateful to have survived and to be mildly comfortable. We do not ache for a town home in Georgetown or Beacon Hill much less Grammarcy Park. We have no time for idleness but enjoy relaxing. We worked out tails off to get what we could. Were there lazy bums who clustered around the easy jobs with high pay for nothing? Certainly. And those same jobs are still being filled today. So generational tones fall on deaf ears. What we detest the most I think is the glorification of the ideal individual, the lack of educated people, the over indulgence of the few, the failure of the many. But speak for yourself. When u egg someone on with vaulted values be ready to present your gifts for counting. Reckon u will. Just leave it in the driveway.

Onto specifics. Wouldn’t it be rich to feel good about being able to help those in need while business boomed and didn’t need the government to endorse business models which you decry in your trajectory analysis? After all you’re just picking out gooseberries from your butt when u succumb to political rants. Why pick ’62 as the foundation for modernism? What about 1879? By the way SSA is not an entitlement anymore than returns on your IRA investments are fodder for the taxman. Well the latter is false. If u pay FICA you are entitled just like if you save that’s your account. As for Rousseau that’s best left for another time when the churches pay taxes.

Prescription drug programs guarantee a population of purchasers for pharmas. They couldn’t profit without the insurance companies and the public guarantee. Or so they would have us believe. Cayman anyone? How bout insurance for Prudential or Travelers? To take from the less wealthy and give to the extravagantly rich is what that is about. Where do u think monies for investments for El-Earian come from? Santa. SSA is not a promise. It’s a contract. Unless you prefer the Grapes of Wrath? Oh that one is like lying about the inherit goodness of tobacco. It keeps migrants working. It gives the unemployed something to do while waiting for their welfare check. How is it that the eternal light of Christianity is only good on Sundays? To enlightened people the answer to grossly expensive projects which made billionaires out of real estate developers in the Great Society is education not food stamps. No one wants anyone to be on the dole perpetuity. To afford to let go of the life jacket one must let go of the wealth. The social structure of the entitled starts with the Bains not the man on the bottom of the pile whom u feel deserves a good walloping. Privatization? Another word for emptying the coffers and making the richest richer. Let them compete with the USPS like FedEx has. Then let the PO go under. Not paid for capitalism like the airline business. Carl Icahn the wealthiest takeover artist in American history made his bones on the backs of stewardesses who served him liquor while he stole their pension plans. Or did you forget that? Entitled? Thief.What is Sammy running from now Mr. Romeny? Are u afraid your leggings will be exposed for what graft and theft is? Oh really let’s not grumble. It’s way easy to lie isn’t it? If you’d get off the fence you’d find the earth will hold u up.