9 thoughts on “The Boomers Versus The Young”

1. While Obamacare has been the latest round of “screw the kids for the benefit of older people who are more likely to vote”, the problem has been pretty darned bipartisan over the years. Bush pushed Medicare Part-D through when Republicans pretty much covered all three branches of government. And when you look at racking up debt that people in my generation and younger are going to have to pay off, almost every president R or D since Reagan have been guilty as sin of going on a debt-fueled spending binge. Obama has been the worst of the lot on several of these things, but Bush Jr was probably second worst.

   A pox on *both* of their houses.

   ~Jon

   1. Yes, but to the degree that there has been any resistance to it, it has been from the Republicans, not the Democrats.

      1. Well if you count talking the good talk and then doing the same thing as the other party as resistance, sure. The one or two people in Congress who have been honestly trying to deal with this do happen to be Republicans, but most of their colleagues are just as bad as the Democrats. They’re just more hypocritical because before voting for boondoggles they make a pretense at opposition.

         ~Jon

         1. I disagree. There are enough Republicans who vote with the Democrats that a lot of this crap gets passed, but there are plenty of Republican votes against. And ObamaCare didn’t receive a single one in the House.

      2. Overall over the last twenty or thirty years Republicans might have been more restrained but just barely and it wasn’t until the TP came into power in 2010 that they were held accountable. We don’t really know the effect of the TP in congress but if the TP doesn’t hold their own to account over the next few elections, then the movement will be a bust.

   2. Well ya know, they can’t vote Libertarian because that would be “throwing their vote away”. Suckers.

2. One of the obvious rejoinders to this argument is that while it is true that many of the Republicans are bad in this respect, they’re still not as bad as the Democrats. That’s not an excuse, just a recognition that in a political environment where one must usually choose the lesser of two evils, the choice ought to be clear.

   Take, for example, the claim that the Republicans didn’t make enough of a big deal out of Bush’s deficit spending, but they only got concerned about the large deficits after the Democrats assumed control of Congress and after Obama became president. That’s not exactly true for various reasons: first, those Republicans who didn’t complain, didn’t complain because they knew Bush was under constant attack by the media anyway and didn’t want to pile on; second, they knew that when the Democrats came to power, the spending would be much worse; and third, the record of the Democrats in Congress and since Obama became president has been much worse. Medicare Part D is a boondoggle, but if you were to research the alternatives proposed by the Democrats, I’m sure it would seem restrained by comparison.

   1. It’s funny how nobody seems to remember PorkBusters, which was basically the beginnings of the Tea Party under Bush.

      1. Now that you mention it, I recall seeing the PorkBusters logo on Instapundit starting around 2002 or 2003.

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