The joke’s on them — the Brokest Generation
Mark Steyn hits the nail on the head. The next several generations of Americans are being royally screwed by the Obama administration, and they’re too young or too dumb or too ill-educated to know it:
Isn’t it terrific to be able to stick it to the young? I mean, imagine how bad all this economic-type stuff would be if our kids and grandkids hadn’t offered to pick up the tab. Well, okay, they didn’t exactly “offer” but they did stand around behind Barack Obama at all those campaign rallies helping him look dynamic and telegenic and earnestly chanting hopey-hopey-changey-changey. And “Yes, we can!” Which is a pretty open-ended commitment…
We of the Greatest Generation, the Boomers, and Generation X salute you, the plucky members of the Brokest Generation, the Gloomers, and Generation Y, as in “Why the hell did you old coots do this to us?” Because, as politicians like to say, it’s about “the future of all our children.” And the future of all our children is that they’ll be paying off the past of all their grandparents. At 12 percent of GDP, this year’s deficit is the highest since the Second World War, and prioritizes not economic vitality but massive expansion of government. But hey, it’s not our problem. As Lord Keynes observed, “In the long run we’re all dead.”…
This is the biggest generational transfer of wealth in the history of the world…you’re going to be stuck with the tab, just like the Germans got stuck with paying reparations for the catastrophe of the First World War. True, the Germans were actually in the war, whereas in the current crisis you guys were just goofing around at school, dozing through Diversity Studies and hoping to ace Anger Management class. But tough. That’s the way it goes…
The Teleprompter Kid says not to worry: His budget numbers are based on projections that the economy will decline 1.2 percent this year and then grow 4 percent every year thereafter. Do you believe that? In fact, does he believe that? This is the guy who keeps telling us this is the worst economic crisis in 70 years, and it turns out it’s just a 1 percent decline for a couple more months and then party-time resumes?
It’s an upside down world. The young apparently love the Lightworker, and he’s giving them all the shiv. A $3.6 trillion budget is called “A new era of responsibility” when it is precisely the opposite. Who would have thought 20 years ago that the Chinese would rightly be lecturing the US on how to run a proper economy. Amazing.
March 16th, 2009 at 4:53 am
Who would have thought 20 years ago that the Chinese would rightly be lecturing the US on how to run a proper economy.
KGB alumni, too.
It bears remembering that in the 70s and early 80s our future also looked bleak. We had neither the Soviet bloc’s apparent stability nor the work ethic of the Japanese. Hardly anyone envisioned what would ensue from a few people in what would become Silicon Valley, and a few oddballs with names like Gates, Wozniak, Jobs, Allen, Kapor, etc.
Still, I can’t deny that our future does not look promising.
March 17th, 2009 at 12:35 am
Monday links…
More snow tonight here. Where’s that warming they talk about?
Famous war criminal to visit Canada
Dramatic advances sweep Iraq. (h/t, Insty)
Victimology 101 at Yale
Management 101 at Sippican
AIG defends their bonus compensation
Need financial…
March 17th, 2009 at 3:40 am
awww…. gs, you beat me to it. Dinocrat, I have to laugh at that line to keep from crying.
March 17th, 2009 at 5:20 am
awww…. gs, you beat me to it.
It’s a dog-eat-dog struggle here in the teeming Dinocrat commentariat. Nothing personal, feeblemind.
Speaking of dogs, what’s become of ‘staghounds’?
March 17th, 2009 at 5:55 am
‘Dog eat dog’. hee hee. Indeed. I have wondered what became of staghounds as well, gs. As for the ‘teeming commentariat’, sadly Dinocrat deserves more comments than he gets. In my case, I add my bit of witless pseudo-wisdom precisely because there aren’t many comments, likely much to Dinocrat’s chagrin. A person’s comments get lost in the din of a high traffic site. I usually don’t comment on a thread with a multitude of previous comments.
March 17th, 2009 at 9:26 am
feeblemind, staghounds is a Brit. Perhaps he’ll return when American domestic troubles do not command so much of Dinocrat’s attention. (Which can happen in a good way or a bad way.)
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The young apparently love the Lightworker…
Of course they do! No need to fret: they’re too spiritually advanced to be angry at us worried skeptics. No, they pity us.
If intensifying the war becomes necessary and Obama does it, his skeptics and opponents may have to defend him from his enraged core constituency.