The NEW Health Care Reform— Let’s Kill All the Baby Boomers

By Shelley Bluejay Pierce

11/15/2013

So you read my title and think, “Well, that is an exaggeration if I ever read one!”

Right?

That is all fine until I point out some facts and figures to you. Perhaps we will take a little bit of the politically-driven-media-spin-doctoring out of the equation and you may see a bit more clearly what I am referring to. Yes, killing off all the baby-boomers would seriously benefit this country and with the current plans in place it will become a reality.

Why do I care?

Well, maybe because I am one of those boomers that keep getting berated for being the cause of the failing economy, the closed mindset to change and progress, the keepers-of-the-religious-right-winger-agenda and I certainly wanted Sarah Palin as President of the USA right? Oh yes, I forgot to mention that all the economic woes of the country, our support of the military and the enormous burden upon the taxpayers that war costs is also something we old farts support, right?

You could not be more wrong if you tried.

As a matter of fact, a good portion of my readers from all around the world make up the boomer generation and a large portion of them see more clearly than ever just how far astray this countries’ politics have ventured from where we need and want them to be.

No, we don’t expect everyone to get a free ride, free meals, free housing and all of that media spin.

However, where we do demand change and functionality be restored is into the long ago developed Social Security system which we boomers have paid into for the longest time and were told to rely upon as a major source of our security to survive in later years. We do demand that the deep pockets that have stolen that very money to cover all disassociated debts be repaid in full and immediately.

Would that cause a major wiki-leak type of scandal? Would the American people be surprised when all the facts are revealed about where the Social Security monies went? I can assure you, it would be a major revelation at all levels of this government, but I doubt we will ever get those answers.

So why do I say that this political agenda is hell bent on killing off the boomers as their way of solving the current and future woes in this country? Look no further than the current Obama Health Care Reform Laws and the disastrous way in which all of that mess is being handled. First, this Congress is the least performing Congress in the history of this USA. They have sat back, divided on sides and party lines, and refused to do a damned thing. They have passed fewer bills through to completion than any other Congress in history. Yet, their pay raises and their own health care plans are safe and well padded, I can assure you.

The media attacks Obama and his health plan at every opportunity. But is the health care the only issue we need examine? Sadly, most people ignore the fact that the President is but one chess player on the board of many players. He can do nothing without the support of a majority, or at least that is what the U.S. Constitution says, though few have read it recently.

No, far from it. The boomers are coming to the age where they need their retirement savings more than ever due to health insurance rates costing upwards of $1000 per month per person depending on your age and your health. Have you read any current statistics on how many baby boomers are set financially enough to cover that kind of monthly cost?

Did anyone in Washington D.C. attended Junior High or High School? I mean, I remember back when I was in those grades, we had text books, old-school film strips and movies that taught us about this “age of the boomer” reality and what impacts those demographics would have upon society in the future. Everything from a shrinking work force to the increased needs for health care workers and building of nursing homes were discussed decades ago in classrooms all around the USA. We had teachers putting this information on our exams making sure we had learned all the facts and details about this coming upheaval.

Did the powers-that-be not require those classes for people that would later attend Harvard, Yale or other Ivy League universities? Maybe those types never had to take classes associated with demographics, societal care and impacts of an aging work force or economics. Maybe that is why they end up being our countries’ leaders in politics and business. They don’t have to study things like that in order to be placed in charge of managing all of them in the future. Much like the joke regarding the name, Secretary of the Interior, which means that person is in charge of everything in the “exterior” or the outdoors, these leaders didn't learn basic social studies 101.

So now we are confronted with the very things we Boomers all studied and knew was coming years ago. We are seeing the bankers and Wall Street make out like bandits from our lost retirement accounts. No one has paid us back a single dime for everything we lost. The economy has tanked and we are forced to eat the cheapest food we can afford, decide whether we should pay the electric bill or pay for our medications. Our leadership in Washington D.C. is more concerned with how they are perceived in the public than they are about truly taking care of any business at hand. And all the while, the boomers are supposed to sit back and take it like spoon-fed infants.

No, we are not going to sit back and be the segment of the population taking the heat in the media and political rhetoric for being the root cause of the downturn in the USA global economic ratings. Todays’ most recent press states that the Obama Care program has miserably low sign-up numbers. The media spin for today is that there are not enough young people signing up to balance the requirements for the amount of old, broken down, boomers that are paying astronomically high rates per month for their new Obama care.

Excuse me?

Maybe those in leadership that attended Harvard and didn’t have to study demographics, economics and social studies should go back in this article and re-read the previous portion about how everyone knew this day was coming? The blame is not the fault of the boomers. The blame also does not need fall upon the heads of our struggling young people, many of which are unable to afford a place of their own and live at home with their parents, due to their staggering and high-percentage-rate student loans that are killing them every month.

The blame for the current crises this country faces all sits upon the leadership; and not just todays’ political leadership, but going back several generations to when the greed and power struggles began. The theft from the American people began long ago and has thrived like its own economy, dividing the haves and have-nots into ever more chaotic segments.

Do you truly believe that a simple thing like one plan, Obama Care, is going to fix this broken, economically crashing, and politically driven nightmare we call America into some state of bliss? And, the counter question to that is, do you truly believe that one governmental Band-Aid is going damage the entire future of this country?

The answer to both sides of this equation is a resounding NO!

Why do I say that the USA will simply allow us old boomers to die off? We old ones won’t have the resources to care for our health, money to pay for housing and basic necessities, won’t be able to physically contribute to the working economy and because the leadership of this country FAILED to plan accordingly, we will have no monetary or physical means to stay alive. There will be millions of old people that are lay waste at a system so corrupt that even our hard-earned Social Security money we paid into all of our lives is gone.

No one is held accountable. The media spins the stories out directing the mindless population in whatever direction for the day is deemed necessary and all the while, the boomers are dying. Before our eyes, the wealth of accumulated knowledge and wisdom, courage and diversity, and all-things-old will be vanishing.

Will there even be a pause to honor the dead or the dying from these cataclysmic changes in this society? Will anyone ask for a moment of silence at the next ball game in honor of approximately 76 million American children that were born between 1945 and 1964?

Where has a growing dialogue on how to manage aging and end-of-life issues as the generation ages been for all these decades? Are baby-boomers really in that much denial regarding their own aging and death? Are we living vivaciously unaware of the undue economic burden on our own children we will be down the road for not only our care but for our very lives?


No, I can assure you, we are not. And, not all of us are sitting fat and happy with big bank rolls to retire on when you consider that estimates state 60% of us lost value in investments because of the recent economic crisis. Some 40% plus of our population are said to be forcing the delay of retirement and approximately 25% are saying they will never retire due to having no retirement to rely upon.

Obama Care and the issues surrounding it are one topic alone. The media and the politicians that have blindly spent everything in sight to aid foreign countries, finance more wars and their own special interests will retire fat and happy I assure you.

Where is the outrage at that fact? Seemingly quietly, the outrage is being quietly muttered in the distance when in fact all of America should be roaring with rage against the policies that have brought us to this point.

Outrage at a delirious-spending-system that has raped trillions of dollars from proper accounts for a strong nation to survive these demographic up-ticks is absent. The fingers of blame come back upon the very people that will be suffering the most. Not just the elderly will lie dead in the wake of this corrupt system, but the young generation that will carry these burdens, unable to produce enough to sustain a country literally falling apart before our eyes from lack of infrastructure care, future planning and careful development.

Oh yes! Let us all point the fingers of blame and see how far that gets any of us in surviving the disastrous mess that our country is in, and will be in, for a long time to come. All we will get for finger pointing is more arthritis from overused finger joints and little else. And, as previously noted, none of us will be able to afford health care for our damaged finger joints.

Change comes about through action alone. Demanding that the government be held fully accountable is not a suggestion, it is a must. Action from all members of this society, working together towards equality for all members is long overdue. To take no action is dooming us all to the peril of the baby-boomer fate.

When the country can no longer use or afford the baby-boomers in its workforce to maintain its current standards of spending? We will be conveniently and systematically disposed of.

Think that is exaggerating? Think that it won’t or can’t happen to your generation, the next ones coming along behind the boomers?

Think again.

Get a reality check. Read facts not propaganda and you will see very clearly all that awaits you.

Now, may we all please bow our overly-burdened heads, and mutter a moment of silent prayer to the extinct baby-boomers….may all 76 million of them find peace on the other side of the false security they grew up believing in while alive and financing the good old USA.