The War Against Our Kids

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From The Hill’s Pundits Blog

Imus, Virginia Tech, Iraq, Pollution: Let’s End The War Against Our Kids

Brent Budowsky

All across America today, while we mourn together the tragic loss in Virginia, nuts are buying guns, candidates are bragging they kill bunnies with semiautomatic weapons, and politicians tremble with fear of gun lobbies.

And more young Americans die.

We don’t need another debate about the talking points for and against gun control. We need a serious national discussion to find a way to protect legitimate hunters while preventing any nut case, psychotic and sicko from getting a gun to kill more children.

Virtually every day in Iraq, there are tragedies and outrages equal to Virginia Tech…

Every day, pollutants are poured into our skies, because the old are addicted to their cars, the oil companies are addicted to their profits, the politicians are addicted to their campaign money…

Every day in Washington, the budget deficit and national debt are bloated some more, as the old generation steals from the young, as the grownups enjoy a quality of life paid for by the kids of the next generation who will bear the burden of the gluttony today…

Every hour in Darfur, teenage mothers are dying with tiny babies in their arms, as they give them their last drops of water and food. Soon the babies will die as well, as the older generation that once promised that it will never happen again, lets it happen again, while we watch on flat-panel televisions, without the courage or commitment to stop it.

And the death of the young goes on.

Every minute on our televisions and radio, foul-mouthed hosts spout the media of hate, racism — or merely demean, make fun of, or hurt the weak, the vulnerable or the different…

Once upon a time in America there was a great generation. Today there is a great generational rip-off.

There is a song that says “teach the children.” Today, it is the grownups who could learn from the kids.

Let’s do our duty as elders, and end the war against our children, and the abuses against our kids, and the wrongs the old commit against the young.

Brent Budowsky was an aide to former Sen. Lloyd Bensten, and to Bill Alexander, then-chief deputy whip of the House. He is a contributing editor to Fighting Dems News Service and posts regularly on the pundits blog of thehill.com. He can be reached at [e-mail].

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