So you may have read my Boomer bash below. I have another gripe with them that came up today--Social Security reform. Who's doing it? Young people and George Soros have been pissed off about it for years and our government is ignoring it. If anyone's going to save it, it will be Democrats, and only then if we come together and raise a loud stink about it. We simply need means testing and safe investing starting NOW. Those of us who are working and under 40 are going to be taxed by social security and never benefit from it if we don't act NOW.
This also seems to be the only issue that lights a fire under my generation's ass. My husband and I have talked with several people, left leaning, who don't "like" John Kerry or George Bush. Because of this, they are thinking they won't vote, or may even vote for Bush so that there taxes aren't increased. The only people getting a measurable tax break right now are polluters and corporate job exporters. I digress--the point is--Xers are so cynical and withdrawn from any political reality that they don't realize that there actually is a difference between Democrats and Republicans. Who cares if John Kerry's likeable--it's his "people" that matter. Bush hired a bunch of psycho hawks and crusaders, Kerry will actually hire people who know what the hell is going on in the world. Our withdrawn friends seem to care only about social security taxes.
Okay then, Democrats are simply better for working people, the environment, and world peace. Republicans are better for global corporations, polluters, and messy and incompetent wars. Republicans are also better liars, double-speakers and soundbite generators. How else could they convince us that they are better financial managers (hello...Enron)?
I must admit that we do know one nice Republican LOBBYIST who cares about public schools, and, perhaps significantly, he is not a boomer.
Please, may we forever lift our Gen-X veils of cynicism and withdrawal from politics? If we must, we can keep them in regard to our religions, families and love (at our own emotional expense). I just don't want our (few) children to be guaranteed a childhood of asthma because of Republican greed.
