I bet it’s more like for every 20 or 30 of him there’s 1 like your gramps. The Dr.'s office/hospital is like a second home to all the senior citizens I know.
Yes, I have actually. At least I think I have.
There’s a foot shortage? Was it caused by shoe store X-ray machines?
The hell you will! We’re taking that money with us! Why should we leave any for you ungrateful punks?
And get off my lawn!
Spoken like a true boomer, contempt for your parents and contempt for your children. 
So what’re you thinking? 30.06 with a scope? It’d probably be easier if we took out other people’s parents though.
Can we have your liver then.
I hope it runs out when you are not vital enough to engage your lawyers, but vital enough to understand what’s going on. 
Then they can stop garnishing our lazy ass wages. ;p But, if you want I have no problem shelling out for your trip to Nova Scotia to find your brand new ice floe.
Smoking Pot, taking acid and flipping off the man may have been so much cooler and original when you did it, but we’re holding in our rebellion until we get older, Eugenics will be so much more fun and original when we do it.
I don’t care when they die so much as when they retire. I keep waiting for this massive wave of boomer retirements to occur so I can advance without really trying . Now that they’ve lost their retirement funds, they have to keep working. Sucks to be them, for sure, but sucks to be right behind them, too.
I’ve dropped a fly in midair by popping a towel. I didn’t actually hit the fly, but I think that the percussive effect of the pop stunned him.
Nah, the foots got cut off 'cause of the diabetes.
As an incidental note, I can see the aging population being a spur for automated cars, because as the baby boomers age, they will naturally resist giving up driving even as they increasingly suck at it. Soon enough, it’ll be cripplingly expensive for a 75 year-old to get car insurance because so many of his cohort are mistaking the gas and brake pedals and plowing through crowded food courts. The only way they’ll be able to keep driving is by consenting to increasing computer control of their vehicles and that tech will eventually become standard.
The retirement age should be raised to like 68 or something.
Bryan Ekers Boomer entitled laziness has driven so much technological innovation, I think you’ve got a wonderful point!
My wife has an incurable auto-immune disease, which has resulted in full disability (SSDI), .With care, she can expect to live for anther 15-20 years. Her care costs in the neighborhood of $50-60k per year, which will increase as her disease progresses. This is currently paid by private insurance (COBRA), but when that runs out later this year, she will be eligible for Medicare.
Befare you start cutting off people like her, you should remember that us old farts still vote, and we do so in greater percentages than young people. If the system must choose between cutting benefits or raising payroll taxes, guess what we will vote for?
From one of the very first baby-boomers:
There are more of us than of you. Or any other group. We made our parents build us schools. We are used to getting our way, and we vote. We ain’t going away soon, or quietly. Get used to it.
If it comes to that, young people will just design butterfly ballots that lead old people to vote YES for the Program to Recycle the Bodily Chemicals of the Elderly, even though they meant to vote YES for the Early Bird Dinner Mandate.
Yeah, unfortunately that’s an inversion of how civilization is supposed to work. The old are supposed to bequeath wealth to the young, not the other way around. But of course Baby Boomers aren’t called the “Me” generation for nothing. Who cares if there’s enough for hte kids and grandkids right? As long as there’s enough for ME!!!
Why is there still such a focus on how self-centered the boomers are? Is there any reason to believe that successive generations are less self-centered? It seems quite the opposite to me.
That sense of power they have, will eventually be their downfall because there are more of them than us. Fewer of us to take care of them, so already they are having to wait longer to get medical care and its costing them more as demand quickly rises above the supply. Sure, its going to get shouldered onto people such as myself in the form of higher taxes, but how far can they really go with such taxes before its going to do nothing but harm our already struggling economy?
This economy throws a new variable into the mix and its not going to get any better. They may see that their sense of entitlement and selfishness becoming their own worse enemy.
Yeah, but since the numbers are smaller, there’s less of an impact. The Boomers are sufficiently numerous that their self-centering (even if individually slightly less than members of subsequent generations) is enough to create a black hole of Ego massive enough to disrupt the surrounding space-time.
Well, I was specifically talking about those who are both elderly and terminally ill, not merely disabled. Obviously “terminal” would not refer to a woman with a life expectancy of 15 to 20 years. I’m talking specifically about people who will not live more than a short time no matter how much medical care they’re given.
Trust me, FI, I certainly would not want to see your wife’s health care taken away.
Have you noticed that persons of the Hispanic persuasion seem to be growing in numbers lately? How do you think they’re going to feel about paying high taxes to support a bunch of elderly gringos to whom they are not related?