In Recession, Age Discrimination Is More Prominent Than Racism

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TO Mr. Bradford

I read your comment with a certain amount of interest. I, like you, were highly amused by someone elses hypocrisy. Allow me to make gross assumptions like you did. I bet you are a bleeding heart liberal who gets riled up about prejudice and judgements, and yet right here you have taken someones comment about the unborn to mean a whole host of other things, such as being conservative and not caring for young children.

I think that many conservatives who do what you describe believe that everyone deserves the right to be born, but anything beyond that they are hesistant to do. I believe that this is a reasonable case, and question how you can oppose this. Please take your one dimensional view on this subject elsewhere.

On the topic at hand, I was very amused at Bonnie Erbe's comments on ageism. She assumes that businesses (which are run by the older section of our population) are more willing to fire older workers and hire younger workers out of some sort of prejudice akin to racism. This is laughable at best. Businesses are more inclined to hire these younger workers because they are willing to work for less, and will be able to supply the company with years of working that their more elderly peers cannot. I simply do not understand how you can compare this to racism. But, then again, I am only 17, and my young age would obviously prevent me from being knowledgible about anything, make me lazy, and make me unwilling to work for a reasonable wage.

Intersectionality.

Ah. And what of people who have to battle MULTIPLE areas of discrimination, like my 67-year-old Black mother? What is hurting her odds of employment most? This was more than a little facile in terms of analysis.

Setting the Old vs. the Young

Once again the gvt. has played the age-old trick of playing one segment of the population against the other. This time, it's the OLD vs. the YOUNG. The YOUNG think that older people are sucking up all the money that they, the young, are putting into the system, especially Social Security. They fail to realize that the gvt. conveniently took the surplus from decades of excess contributions and substituted worthless gvt. bonds in their place. The monies were used to artificially balance the budget and make the deficits seem bearable. The OLD are lead to believe that the young a bunch of whiners and lazy malcontents, who want jobs handed to them on a silver platter and routinely refuse jobs that are below their educational status. This trick has been used additionally with success in the BLACK vs. WHITE , and the RICH vs. the POOR polarities. It works every time and only serves to reward the politicians and tear down the country.

It's about time

Baby boomers have had it good for so long that it is about time they get a slap in the face. Unfortunately, we continue to fund medicare and social security on the backs of the young. Take responsibility and pay for your own; I will pay for mine. However, I am sure the ugliest generation will just continue to vote themselves my money, my work, and my future. Cannibals.

R.L. Schaefer

I bet you are one of those people who worry about the unborn but then once they are out of the womb, you do nothing for needy children. Have you adopted any children? Do you vote against social programs like Headstart or school lunch programs? Do you do any voluntary work like mentoring an inner city child? Do you participate in peace demonstrations so that our youth aren't sent overseas to die for our oil addiction? And are you against the death penalty, after all, aren't all lives sacred or just the unborn? I love out conservatives are so concerned about the unborn but then once they are born, stand against everything that would help them be successful in life, voting down every school levy, every needy children programs and anything that would make their lives better. Sickening hypocrisy.

Hey Bonnie,

I'm surprised you don't feel about old people as you feel about really young people - the unborn. When people are unwanted and inconvenient isn't it best just to get rid of them? Who wants the responsibility of caring for them? I mean, it isn't as if they're dogs or horses - they're just humans.