Retired and Ready To…….

Last week I posted a review of Christopher Buckley's recent satirical novel, Boomsday. In the review I mentioned that I have been seeing a number of angery blog and forum rants from the Gen X and Y folks targeting "old people" and the Baby Boom generation. As a followup I want to share a segment from a recent letter to the editor from the North County Times newspaper.

Boomers will ultimately pay

If we were to suffer the economic pains of our choices now, would we be so willing to go into debt? How moral is it to enjoy our tax cuts, spend our economic stimulus checks and then hand out a massive $10 trillion debt to future generations, making them feel the pain we should have endured.

As baby boomers fade away and generations X and Y rise up to take the reins of power, they would have every right to eliminate all benefits for the boomer generation, including Social Security and Medicare, in order to pay for the financial mess we caused.

Stan Hess

Vista

How mad the Gen X and Y folks are I can't be certain, but here's one Baby boomer who's mad at Boomers too.