Take it Away

The Great Reckoning could happen in slow motion but I think it will come. There was always a problem with politicians to get them to safeguard our society and principles but especially if it required doing something unpopular. 

And those were the good times, when politicians weren't openly for sale to special interests and cozying up to the idea of the Second Coming. The boomers have burned through their inheritance and are now borrowing from their kids.

They won't invest in anything for the public good, an idea which they increasingly refuse to recognize even though they have benefitted from it immensely. An earlier generation built the country. Drive through one of those gated communities.

Oh, I'm sorry, you can't. But there you would see those irresponsible children wasting our inheritance. Behold the huge houses and all the white people playing golf. The consumption seen there is unconscionable and unsustainable.

The amount spent maintaining even one of those houses could make a difference in a public school. It's time to take it away from them. It was easy money, anyway, a gift from earlier generations of Americans who were responsible and productive.

It's for their own good, to begin with. They can't be trusted to behave like adults. And it's morally right and it might save our asses as well.