Mark Steyn, probably the best satirical writer / pundit / speaker in the world, has another great column. You know, he has some good points. I look at this column, and I look at my sons, and go, yeah – Obama and our national legislators have certainly put the screws to their futures.
The sad thing is that IF Obama is allowed to continue in the same path he is, and his Democrat useful idiots continue to enable that behavior, many of the latter will be retired in 2 or so years and Obama, having laid waste to the former USA economically, will not be around after 2012.
Anyways, Steyn’s words (and as always, go Read The Whole Thing; emphasis mine):
This is the biggest generational transfer of wealth in the history of the world. If you’re an 18-year-old middle-class hopeychanger, look at the way your parents and grandparents live: It’s not going to be like that for you. You’re going to have a smaller house, and a smaller car – if not a basement flat and a bus ticket. You didn’t get us into this catastrophe. But you’re going to be stuck with the tab, just like the Germans got stuck with paying reparations for the catastrophe of the First World War. True, the Germans were actually in the war, whereas in the current crisis you guys were just goofing around at school, dozing through Diversity Studies and hoping to ace Anger Management class. But tough. That’s the way it goes.
I had the pleasure of talking to the students of Hillsdale College last week, and I endeavored to explain what it is they’re being lined up for in a 21st century America of more government, more regulation, less opportunity and less prosperity: When you come to take your seat at the American table (to use another phrase politicians are fond of), you’ll find the geezers, boomers and X-ers have all gone to the men’s room, and you’re the only one sitting there when the waiter presents the check. That’s you: Generation Checks.
The Teleprompter Kid says not to worry: His budget numbers are based on projections that the economy will decline 1.2 percent this year and then grow 4 percent every year thereafter. Do you believe that? In fact, does he believe that? This is the guy who keeps telling us this is the worst economic crisis in 70 years, and it turns out it’s just a 1-percent decline for a couple more months, and then party time resumes? And, come to that, wasn’t there a (notably unprojected) 6.2 percent drop in GDP just in the last quarter of 2008?
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