A few facts supporting that headline. When seniors of today purchased their first stock, the stock market was around 500; over their lifetime it went to over 14,000. They purchased their first home for around $10,000; over their lifetime the value increased to around $200,000. Through their vigil of silence, and wanting to protect their entitlements, they blessed political pilfering of excess Social Security tax contributions that were to be saved and invested. This blessing allowed politicians to turn 2.5 trillion dollars of Social Security trust fund assets created by hard working Americans, into 2.5 trillion dollars of Social Security IOU debt, those same hard working Americans and their families will have to pay again, plus interest. Additionally excess Social Security payroll deductions denied millions of average working Americans the means to save and invest for their own retirement; senioritis can be costly, can’t it?

Then seniors became card carrying members of AARP, and used their collective lobbying clout to run up their children and grand children’s credit card debt from 2.87 billion to 12.6 Trillion over their lifetime; senioritis is addictive, isn’t it? At age 65, their children and grand children subsidize their health insurance costs through Medicare, lowering their health insurance premiums from something around $500 per month, to in some cases no cost per month at all, if they’re enrolled in a Medicare advantage plan. History suggests current seniors have had a pretty nice ride, wouldn’t you agree?

Then to add a little more salt to an open financial gash, they feel they’re entitled to senior discounts for meals, airline tickets, or whatever else they can have at the expense of their children and grand children. Senioritis has put America on a glide path to our financial demise, and if a cure isn’t found, the next generation will create 250 trillion dollars of Social Security IOU debt, and another 52.9 quadrillion dollars of credit card debt, and the annual Medicare costs will be astronomical; senioritis – it’s contagious.

Those were facts, now an opinion. With all due respect seniors, and they do deserve some, here’s a news flash, You are the last best hope for future generations, and you have an obligation to give up a little of your leisure time to be part of a solution, but first, your day in the sun at the expense of future generations has got to come to a screeching halt. Having one more party, supporting a party, or a political party’s politician isn’t a solution; if it were we wouldn’t be in this mess. The real solution resides with that person looking back at you in the mirror; it’s time the two of you had a heart to heart regarding “me thinking” and “we thinking”. The current “all about seniors” AARP plan needs to be replaced with an “all about us” American plan. This will open the door for a constructive intra-generational dialogue, focusing on real solutions that best serve this & future generations; our children and grand children are entitled to that conversation at the very least. Now take the energy, and the emotions you feel after readi0ng this, and join us in a no finger pointing, no name calling, no sign carrying, no appointing blame, “we thinking”, stamp out senioritis dialogue, by going to http://www.americaretoday.com and activate your voice on behalf of the next generations

“With those taxes in there, no damn politician can ever scrap my social security program. Those taxes aren’t a matter of economics, they’re straight politics.”
-FDR