Letters to the Editor
Electro Robot
Published Letters: 1577 Editor's Choice: 18
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Well it depends on how you perceive value, to some extent
[Read the article: Have we fallen behind our parents?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The so called Greatest Generation as well as the Korean War Generation right after it are in fact anomalies. No where else in the history of people was there an entire generation that voted and awarded itself such an enormous bag of free stuff. From SSI to early retirement to rich union plans to subsidized healthcare, IRA's, 401Ks, the GI bill, massive tax breaks, to the greatest long run surge in property values from 1955 to 1995, Medicare, Medicaid, and long slow retirement where expensive and extensive travel is the norm not the exception and it goes on from age 55 to age 85. Not only did those generations not take care of their own parents, outsourcing them to nursing homes, but they didn't take care of their children's generation either - letting them take out loans for the their college or letting the government pick up the tab, so long as they got out of the house at 18.
No on and on and on there's hundreds of examples that show that that bubble from Truman to Reagan is a one time only affair. And the rest of us are fucked. Fucked good and hard. I'm not retiring at 55 or 60 with free non contrib no copay health insurance like my mother's county employee gig. I didn't go to CCNY/CUNY for free. I didn't get a Levitt house for $9000 to sell it 45 years later for $550,000. My employer doesn't know what 'benefits' are. And even if they did, it's a toss up whether my job will wind up in fucking Bangalore where people are still occasionally eaten by tigers.
So are we falling behind? No not really, we NEVER had a chance. They got their greedy little claws in and it will take a bullet to the head to release them.
Dear Mom - if you leave me with your living will decision I will pull the plug so fast it will spark. It's just business.
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If black people don't mind it neither do I
[Read the article: Miss Bitch USA]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I mean if you don't have a problem with setting back the vision of black people another 20 years, have at it. 70% of the audience for rap is white suburbanites and trust me, it's a toss up between the wiggers and the people who are just laughing at your minstrel ass. Be my guest, have bitch ho hoedown replete with fat angry screaming women waving their acrylic 3 inch nails at each other. I like to count the wrong/mispronounced words.
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Pish posh
[Read the article: My fiancé suddenly joined the Marines]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm manic depressive and he's never at the meetings. No seriously, we don't do anything we actually wouldn't ordinarily do. We just do MORE of what we're inclined to do anyway. If you like to shop you'll shop until you're broke. If you get in fights you get into MORE fights and such. People don't have multiple personalities with manic depression. Your finance always harbored a desire to join up.
Anyway, why wait? You can be married in the service. Sounds like you're the one with the problem.
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In NY we have 3 seasons:
[Read the article: A nation of individualists]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Winter, rain and August
In NC we have 4 seasons: Ice, tornados, July and hurricanes.
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Early on in the election cycle
[Read the article: Clinton is "almost like ... the Al Sharpton of white people"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Rev Al was the only candidate who made sense. He's the only one with the honesty and candor to call a spade a spade, as it were. I truly dislike much of what he's done off the backs of others but when you ask Rev Al to speak his mind, he does. And what comes out is pretty close to the truth most of the time.
What's so bad about Rev Al? He's smarter than Chris Matthews ever expanding man crush head anyway.