After more than a year off, we're back. It was a transformative year for the country and for me. For most of it I was hiding from that awful year of our lord 2008 on various rivers in the west, and in a college town supporting the local liquor economy. I read an awful lot of Hunter S. Thompson, so his influence here will be felt. Like many, I was looking for serious work. Having been laid off from my law job last March, I too am a victim of the era of greed. Many of my friends, like me, have been languishing in recession-ville, wasting our youth, talent, and education, but not our spirit.
This blog is taking a new direction. It will be dedicated to the lost generation: those of us who are over-educated, under-compensated, rarely appreciated, and almost never listened to. It will be a platform for the discussion of issues of grave national concern, but from our perspective. It will be the start of the political movement of our generation.
For too long the older generations have held onto the reigns of political power in this country. Even now the World War II generation is just beginning to lose power to the older baby-boomers. During the Obama campaign, our generation showed its first signs of political life. Unfortunately, we were used. What was the first act of the so-called President of our generation? He signed the largest tax onto our generation that has ever been passed by any government onto any group of humans, anywhere in history.
President Obama has shown his true roots. I'm not talking about race, ethnicity, or religion - those are not characteristics that our generation are concerned with. Those are issues of the past. No, President Obama showed that he is, first and foremost, a product of his generation. He was born in 1961 - a few months after the boomer generation ended. Of course, the lines by which generations are defined are blurry, not hard-lines. According to wiki-pedia, the boomers were born between 1944 and 1960. So, at the very least, Obama was conceived as a boomer, if not born as one. So, the President of hope and change used the same fear-mongering tactics to continue the same economic policies of greed and avarice of President Bush. And like his predecessor, President Obama has already ballooned the national debt beyond the level that even socialist economists would think prudent. When you include the near-bankrupt social security system, which will most certainly also be debt financed by our generation, it will be a long time before we get our heads above water. Make no mistake about it, the taxes we will pay for our entire lives will go to the repayment of this government debt.
Its hard to get your head above water if you are never given the opportunity to swim. We are the true victims of this recession and the accompanying unemployment. The millennial generation, or whatever you want to call the children of the baby-boomers who came of age around the turn of the new millennium, never expected anything from the future but good things. We went to college, under the prevailing ethic that if you didn't go to college you were a loser. Having been driven by a similar ethic, I went to law school because everyone was going to college and I wanted to distinguish myself from everyone else. The result of all of this education - more debt. Sound familiar?
So this is what we're going to do: consolidate and mobilize political power for our ends, not theirs. There are policy solutions which could move this country past the era of greed, and the politics of entitlement. Unfortunately they are not discussed in a serious way because the entrenched interests of prior generations forbid it. Our generation can outflank these entrenched interests if we mobilize under our policies and our principles. This blog will explore our policies and advocate for our principles. Look forward to policy articles on energy, education, markets, national defense, food production and distribution, health care, drug policy, the environment, and the role of government.
This blog is taking a new direction. It will be dedicated to the lost generation: those of us who are over-educated, under-compensated, rarely appreciated, and almost never listened to. It will be a platform for the discussion of issues of grave national concern, but from our perspective. It will be the start of the political movement of our generation.
For too long the older generations have held onto the reigns of political power in this country. Even now the World War II generation is just beginning to lose power to the older baby-boomers. During the Obama campaign, our generation showed its first signs of political life. Unfortunately, we were used. What was the first act of the so-called President of our generation? He signed the largest tax onto our generation that has ever been passed by any government onto any group of humans, anywhere in history.
President Obama has shown his true roots. I'm not talking about race, ethnicity, or religion - those are not characteristics that our generation are concerned with. Those are issues of the past. No, President Obama showed that he is, first and foremost, a product of his generation. He was born in 1961 - a few months after the boomer generation ended. Of course, the lines by which generations are defined are blurry, not hard-lines. According to wiki-pedia, the boomers were born between 1944 and 1960. So, at the very least, Obama was conceived as a boomer, if not born as one. So, the President of hope and change used the same fear-mongering tactics to continue the same economic policies of greed and avarice of President Bush. And like his predecessor, President Obama has already ballooned the national debt beyond the level that even socialist economists would think prudent. When you include the near-bankrupt social security system, which will most certainly also be debt financed by our generation, it will be a long time before we get our heads above water. Make no mistake about it, the taxes we will pay for our entire lives will go to the repayment of this government debt.
Its hard to get your head above water if you are never given the opportunity to swim. We are the true victims of this recession and the accompanying unemployment. The millennial generation, or whatever you want to call the children of the baby-boomers who came of age around the turn of the new millennium, never expected anything from the future but good things. We went to college, under the prevailing ethic that if you didn't go to college you were a loser. Having been driven by a similar ethic, I went to law school because everyone was going to college and I wanted to distinguish myself from everyone else. The result of all of this education - more debt. Sound familiar?
So this is what we're going to do: consolidate and mobilize political power for our ends, not theirs. There are policy solutions which could move this country past the era of greed, and the politics of entitlement. Unfortunately they are not discussed in a serious way because the entrenched interests of prior generations forbid it. Our generation can outflank these entrenched interests if we mobilize under our policies and our principles. This blog will explore our policies and advocate for our principles. Look forward to policy articles on energy, education, markets, national defense, food production and distribution, health care, drug policy, the environment, and the role of government.
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