A Wake-Up Call for the Boomers Kids
Time is Short
I was going to address this to what is called the Boomer generation only
to find they are all old farts like me. The Boomers were born in the period
1946 to 1964 and now range in age from 49-67. They’re all too old to benefit
from any advice I give because they are now learning the same difficult lessons
I have had to absorb. First and foremost, Freedom 55 was a ridiculous idea and
its failure revealed our whole generation’s lack of knowledge about how to
manage money and plan for the future. If you’ve reached 60 without banking or
investing that you can count on for a comfortable retirement, think again,
there’s a rough road ahead
If today, you find yourself at retirement and you haven’t got that nest
egg in a much protected state, then count on a shortage of yolk down the road.
My son was born in 1964 so I guess I’m aiming this at all the Boomers little
brats, not the parents. All of you readers who have reached the age of 50 are
looking at a future where you will need to take advantage of all the Canadian
Social Benefits that the Cons are determined to chop away at knee level. I’m
not surprised at where we are in this country. for the last thirty years I have
been watching an amoral control freak crawl his way up the political guts of
our society to a leadership role. Yes, I’m talking about Harpo the Hypocrite.
A couple of readers have asked me:
Why do I hate Stephen Harper? What do I have against him? Well, here’s
the axe I’ve been grinding and have been for 3 decades. I would give a million
dollars to have the privilege of being first in line to piss on his grave.
In 1989 we were living in Red Deer, Alberta in the heart of
redneck Religious Fundamentalist country with its ignorant belief and
prejudices. My son was a homosexual. He was born one, he grew into a talented
artist: I knew who he was and accepted the fact. I think it was September when
Lee had to go to a dentist and was turned away because he was contagious, he
had HIV.
Our leader
Mr. Harper was not really into politics as yet but was gathering his base with
a thunder and lighting campaign based on religious bigotry and intolerance and
somehow he got my attention and I started listening to him. It was not fun
hearing my son was being punished by God for his evil ways and perverted
conduct but the son-of a bitch would not shut up. It took my son 7 years of
hell to die of AIDS when it fried his brain, and we had to watch the process, listening
to the vitriol of an asshole on the radio vilifying our son. According to his
belief structure my son was a sinner being punished for his perversion and
choice of homosexuality and Harpo condemned d him to Hell. I can’t forgive
that.
In 1997 my
employer went bankrupt and we went through a very tough time when we needed
help from the system and actually got it. EI saved our ass. Late that year Mr.
Harper, the Great Pretender, gave a speech to a collection of right wing American
fundamentalist business tycoons at an event in Montreal. In it he describes his
appreciation of the Canadian social network and Canadians inattention, greed,
and acceptance of a public dole. That alone displays some of the evil thinking he
again needed in designing the MMPR. I quote:
“First,
facts about Canada. Canada is a Northern European welfare
state in the worst sense of the term, and very proud of it.
Canadians make no connection between the fact that they are a Northern European
welfare state and the fact that we have very low economic growth, a standard of
living substantially lower than yours, a massive brain drain of young
professionals to your country, and double the unemployment rate of the United
States.
In terms of the unemployed, of
which we have over a million-and-a-half, don't feel particularly bad for many
of these people. They
don't feel bad about it themselves, as long as they're receiving generous
social assistance and unemployment insurance.”
The
reality is boys and girls you children are going to experience what remains of our
beloved compassionate system of giving a shit about your neighbor. Harpo has a
majority and with his bigoted understanding of how to fix shit I will not
hazard a guess as to what ruins will remain after his tenancy is ended.
Blaine Barrett
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