I have to admit, I was a bit shocked when a simple observation of mine, that the GOP has a plank in its platform stating its aim to
"explore a greater role for private enterprise in appropriate aspects of the mail-processing system", blew up into such a kerfuffle. The GOP, after all, has long been the party supported by anti-union forces in
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Interesting post, but after my recent experience with BB-bashing here I do feel compelled to point out that most of the baby-boomers I know could not afford to live in that kind of retirement community -- even if they wanted to. Like any other generation, we're a diverse bunch.
Taking into account the post-war population boom is probably necessary in any discussion of economics, but I'm afraid it's getting dumbed down into "It's all the baby boomers' fault!" -- our crimes being, apparently, being born and getting old. Some of the rhetoric I'm hearing on this board towards BBers is akin to that stock character in old disaster movies, the craven hysteric who, in a crowded lifeboat, points at a group of people and yells, "We're being swamped! It's all THEIR FAULT! Toss 'em over!"
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I do agree, though, that most media coverage of the economic effects of the pulse has been, like most media coverage of, well, anything, has been dumbed down to hysteria backed by quickie google searches.
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