tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4290163255778893789.post4146612503275899290..comments2024-03-16T05:19:07.061-04:00Comments on Retirement Blues: Another QoD from Ed at G&TJazzbumpahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07337490817307473659noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4290163255778893789.post-2640745508383104982013-03-30T10:03:13.794-04:002013-03-30T10:03:13.794-04:00Mike -
I don't blame everything on conservati...Mike -<br /><br />I don't blame everything on conservatives, though it's hard to think of something that doesn't qualify.<br /><br />They are absolutely responsible for the lingering recessions here and in Europe. <br /><br />I'm one of those boomers, and hope to live for a couple more decades - my mom is going strong at almost 92. The only budget buster there is health care costs, and Medicare does better than the rest of society in controlling them. Still, a big problem.<br /><br />Libertarians are just ignorant, and the ones past 40 must b willfully so. There is probably no hope for them.<br /><br />Median income is down because of capture by the wealthy, mainly in the form of rents. Big changes are needed to correct that - taxation and regulation policies from 50 years ago. Blame conservatives for that, too.<br /><br />Thanks for the comment. <br /><br />JzBJazzbumpahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07337490817307473659noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4290163255778893789.post-73226044707748080552013-03-30T01:36:51.688-04:002013-03-30T01:36:51.688-04:00I don't want to blame everything on conservati...I don't want to blame everything on conservatives, not just for being conservatives per se. I see three long term issues which are screwing up American politics. The first, obviously, is this godawful recession, which is making all of us miserable. The second is the aging of the babyboomers, which is going to squeeze the federal budget until the bulk of them are dead -- which isn't going to be till 2025 or maybe 2035. And the third is the large numbers of 30-ish or 40-ish Libertarians, whom we're stuck with until well past the middle of the century. <br /><br />Perhaps by 2020 or so, economic growth will have revived a bit, and the employment and median income figures won't be so bad. And maybe improved medical technologuy and pharmacology will keep people happy and productive for longer periods. Those might counteract the demographic issues, but I'm not especially sanguine.mike shupphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08383379836883992742noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4290163255778893789.post-64687491370402101572013-03-27T13:10:40.547-04:002013-03-27T13:10:40.547-04:00Well, now I am depressed enough to recall a quote ...Well, now I am depressed enough to recall a quote from a acquaintance fond of belief over anything resembling an inconvenient fact:<br /><br />"A lady has to believe in something; I believe I need a Scotch!"Syrbal/Labryshttp://www.herlanderwalking.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4290163255778893789.post-19932634235863480392013-03-27T12:33:48.578-04:002013-03-27T12:33:48.578-04:00Jonathan Swift, via Climate Progress yesterday: &...Jonathan Swift, via Climate Progress yesterday: "It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into."Roger Chittumhttp://www.realitybase.orgnoreply@blogger.com