Baby Boomers are worried about Medicare<\/a>.\u00a0 Yeah.\u00a0 Can\u2019t imagine why.\u00a0 It will be interesting to see how the Boomers, who still refuse to give up influence and control of our cultural steering wheel, handle turning our country around toward caring about the elderly.\u00a0 After almost fifty years of mocking, deriding, lampooning, and dismissing anyone over the age of 30<\/strike> 40<\/strike> 50<\/strike> 60<\/strike> 70<\/strike> 80<\/strike>, it will be fun to watch them attempt, once again, to rewrite ethics to conform to their own priorities.\u00a0 My heart goes out to those Boomers who wisely refused to live up to all of the stellar accomplishments of their generational label.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new poll suggests that Baby Boomers are worried about Medicare.\u00a0 Yeah.\u00a0 Can\u2019t imagine why.\u00a0 It will be interesting to see how the Boomers, who still refuse to give up influence and control of our cultural steering wheel, handle turning our country around toward caring about the elderly.\u00a0 After almost fifty years of mocking, deriding, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2805,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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