The special House election in a Republican district in New York was a major disappointment.
· Voters there allowed the election to turn into a referendum on Medicare rather than a broader referendum on fiscal policy – debt, deficit and unfunded liabilities.
· The Republican candidate was incompetent, unable to communicate our fiscal problems, to explain the Ryan budget or control the debate.
· The Democrat was either stupid or a liar – pretending that the popular position: Medicare as we know it – was easily sustainable.
· The voters there – led by my own “selfish generation” – were either stupid or selfish in their insistence on Medicare as we know it.
The risk is that this election means that the general population has its collective head up its butt. As an optimist, I can see these slivers of hope:
· New York is a blue state and therefore even upstaters there may not represent the sensibility of the greater nation.
· It’s good news that that the Democrat won only 47% of the vote.
· It could be that the off election had a low turnout that does not represent the true feelings of the district.
· Millions were spent on propaganda ads here so perhaps the sleepy, disgusted center was misled in a way that will not apply to a general election in 2012.
· Perhaps this result will remind the disgusted, a-pox-on-both-your-houses center that staying home is not an option.
These rays of possible light are weak tea compared to the current attitude of seniors and about-to-be-senior Boomers. My generation appears to be saying “I want mine” regardless of the cost to my grandchildren or the good of the nation. How shameful.
My grandchildren better get a serious education because we are going to leave them in the worst fiscal condition the nation has ever seen. I hope they turn us Boomers in to Soylent Green – we deserve no better.
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