Congress Worries States Will Run Out of Money

What will happen in the coming future... rather than have political ideology determine alliances, it will be alliance by age group. There will be big fights based on generational interests. There will be old people vs young people...the system will become increasingly unstable and unsustainable. The USA will become an enormous money argument which in my opinion, will spell ruin for the country socially and financially. What other result could there when the generation in power has simply done what is best for itself, with token gestures to the next generation? The young people will not only be asked to pay unrealistic sums of money to support the baby boomers, but will also be saddled withe the debts of that generation (and their politicians) as well. In native American culture, morality is measured by what condition things are left for the next generations. If they have left great bills to pay and social chaos, then its reasonable to say the generation, as a whole, was not a moral one and simply did whats best for itself. This realization suggests even attending church is hypocritical, if it also means indifference towards what condition things are left behind. I used to be all for AARP, now what I see coming is AARP aggressively lobbying for 'more' when this generation, as a whole, has voted to leave left behind debt for others to pay. Its like a house party mess which the next generation gets to spend their lives cleaning it up, while trying to make something of their own lives. We will likely see American's global standing reduced to unimaginably low proportions, and this great experiment in democracy will come to a close within this century. But what that closure details, I shudder to think. Just like ancient Rome, we are no better than they, even though we have things called the "iPod".

walt of PA 2:14PM March 14, 2010