Here we come.  The Baby Boom Generation is retiring.  We are exhausted and broke.  Our health is precarious and we have few solid relationships to sustain us.  Our mental health is teetering on the edge of sanity and we have alienated many of the very people and resources that could help sustain us.  We don't like to work and we feel entitled to a pension and care.  We like to drink and eat sweets and our alcoholism and diabetes are rampant.  There are so many of us that we could overwhelm the welfare system with our needs.  We are spoiled and lost.  Traumatized by wars that don't matter and a world that is teeming with young people anxious to see our generation move along.  We take up valuable resources as we flounder about in our old age and we have burned all the bridges that were built by our parents' generation. 

   The WWII generation has almost passed.  The Boomers are struggling to help the last of them leave this earth and we make fun of our parents frailities.  We demand the best care for them and yet we are unable to provide it ourselves.   The WWII generation had a great safety net but their children have none.   Parents support and live with the Boomers and when they die we are left berift of social connections and funds.  We have spent our inheritance over and over again and we face crushing debt on a national and personal level.  We can't afford to continue the lifestyle our parents enjoyed since WWII.  Our future looks grim as there are so many of us and we are so needy.  Our parents are not proud of what we have become.

   The boomers are obsessed with sex, drugs and rock and roll.  We wallow in our addictions and let the practical business of surviving take last place.  The information age is crowned with a porn industry on the top of the highway.  Our fantasies and appetites have brought us to our knees and there is only one way to go and that is further down.  Our moral compass is pointing all over the place and anything goes.  We have seen all sides of life and our freedom to choose whatever lifestyle we want has led us in a million destructive directions.

   If we are to survive the next twenty years we should all just hope that the Boomers die quickly.  If they all linger with expensive medical treatments and no money to pay for them the systems will be completely depleted by the time the Boomer's children grow into their maturity.  The needs of the Boomers can only show how the system that so proudly developed to care for the WWII generation is too extreme to care for all of us.  We need a graceful way to step out of the way and not be more of a burden to the world.  We need to move along without doing any more harm to mother earth or our children.  We need good life insurance policies because that has become the way to navigate the future.  We are gambling on our deaths and we need to die and share the winnings.

   The Conservative Boomers are wailing about the Progressives and the two political systems have come to a grinding stop.  We are unable to work together in a civilized mannar and we will resort to violence when the impasses become too great.  I fear for the infighting that will develop as the Boomers become more and more needy.  We are taking giant steps backward and the Great Society that our parents hoped for so fervently is crumbling.  We are decending into a time of want and despair.  There are too many of us and we are going down.  

  This is just the impression I got at the BBQ I went to yesterday.  Happy Fourth of July????????????