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MartiniMan
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My feelings exactly
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12/3/2012 12:56:45 PM
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This was supposedly a letter to the editor in Barron's magazine. I have not confirmed its validity and don't plan to but this is exactly how I am beginning to feel. The sad part is that the youth vote went the way it did because of the failure of parents and the education system to instill in them the values that made this a great country. Be that as it may, they voted and this is a good expression of my sentiments.
A Warm Thank You
To the Editor:
This 50-something, white, conservative Republican wishes to thank America’s youth for sacrificing their financial futures and standard of living so that boomers, such as my wife and I, can look forward to a long and comfy retirement, which we could easily have afforded on our own. Now we have the youth as our guarantors and providers of a little something extra.
As reported by the national exit poll conducted by Edison Research, Americans aged 18 to 29 voted 60% to 36% for Barack Obama. Prior to Obama’s re-election, I believed that it was morally wrong for my generation to pass a crushing national debt on to the next one.
The debt will top $20 trillion before Obama moves out of the White House, and it will include spiraling retirement-related costs that the administration has shown zero interest in bringing under control, largely driven by baby boomers piling into the Social Security and Medicare systems.
With the president’s electoral crushing of Mitt Romney, my overriding sense of morality and guilt have vanished. Thank you, kids!
Edwin D. Schindler
Woodbury, N.Y.
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