"Our Future Is Not Necessarily Rosy" --- BY ME!!!

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Our future is not necessarily rosy
By Michael A. Bare
Published: Thursday, January 22, 2004
I was puzzled in my first semester of college by a prophetic English professor who said, "Your generation may be the first to have a worse life than the one before it." I generally expect such doomsday prophets to be standing on a street corner accosting bystanders with this sort of preaching. Hearing it from a respectable professor was indeed a reality check. Since the baffling prophecy, every class, newspaper, book, evening news and blog I have experienced have presented a new problem to support the case.

The aging of the baby boomer generation is an unprecedented challenge to our social programs. The public education system is poorly funded and letting our generation down. The sapped resources of our planet will confront our ingenuity. Our modern representative democracy is willing to disregard anything we value in the name of fear. It seems these problems are being ignored.

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[Old and In the Way]

1. Your college prof must have been one of those damn liberals.

telling you the truth like that....

Good stuff!

[teryang]

2. Ignoring problems and enriching their cronies

...is what American politicians do. It's legalized corruption. No one even bothers to hide it anymore.

Virtually every journalist in the corporate mainstream spends all their time plugging the corporate incumbents and ridiculing those that represent the public interest.

The public welfare and even national security don't have a chance under rule by corruption.

Whenever an issue of substantial import to the citizens is discussed in public it is ridiculed and dismissed by the denial media which would rather concern itself with fictitious enemies and virtual recoveries. That is where the money is and the key to their continued minority rule.

Most public issues discussed by the corporatist political machine have the depth of a snake charming revival.

[bemildred]

3. Decadent is the word I like.

Decadent political culture. Rotten, like a ripe banana.

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5. Well put.

The media consensus on some of these guys is such a goddamn sickening joke.

[Jack Rabbit]

4. Congratulations

!!

[Skittles]

6. "aging" baby boomer generation

please tell me one generation that is NOT aging.