Diary: AARP Retirees: Winners now whining

I just got this in an email from the AARP: > I need your help. It's no secret that older Americans have been among the hardest hit by the economic crisis. That's why this legislation must include important relief for older Americans. > It's important that Congress not just act quickly, but that it also gets it right! Every day your AARP representatives in Washington are working hard to make sure that older Americans get the relief they deserve. Why? The retirees are notorious for cutting funds for others, especially school children. That can easily be proved. Retirees unanimously supported the "good" economy of up to a year ago, because their pensions and stocks were climbing. Now that the house of cards has collapsed, the AAPR wants a piece of that "welfare for the rich" that congress is getting ready to dole out. Retirees elected all the people whom they now complain about, Reagan, Bush and the rest of the Republicans. And who gets to pay for the welfare for the rich, well the children of today whom they stab in the back, who will be the workers of tomorrow. I got the impression from about 2003 on that the economy was designed for the old, and since the old, represented by old presidents and politicians, were in control, then all was good. Remember, the people who elected Reagan and the Bushes are largely retired now. This is how the retirees won (but then lost): Jobs were exported so that goods could be cheapest. Job loss was meaningless to retirees as retirees don't work, duh. Foreigners were imported to provide slave-level labor to build nice retirement homes called McMansions. In New Paltz, where I go to church, the environmentalists and liberals worked together to waive wetlands protection law for construction for elder facilities, and then a slew of housing developments ran though the loophole. The rationale as I heard it was that the eldler liberals were themselves environmentalists when they were younger, and therefore had a right to destroy the environment. Retirees no looking for jobs, were the winners. Well, guess what, everybody loses, including the cheap foreign labor, now that the so-called global economy is crashing. Maybe its time to get real and take a real good look at yourselves and especially your greed, and start thinking in terms of dumping the Bush/Reagan "trickle down economy" and in terms of investing in the youth of America.