April 27, 2005
If it weren’t for those meddling octogenarians
Okay, I just love the word octogenarian. I’m always looking for ways to work it into conversation. A blogger I just found, Gold In the Mine, has taken it upon himself to lambast these sneaky individuals, and their militant wing (the AARP), for voting and the entitlement mentality.
His post, Old People Are Greedy, seems like a joke. Either that or I’ve stumbled across a really weird individual (who also reads Dada Head, if that tells you anything).
Either way, here’s the money quote. You’ll never look at Granny the same way again:
I know you don’t want to believe that grand mom has been plotting against you this entire time but it is an unfortunate fact. How many times have you arrived at her house to find her “just taking the cookies out of the oven� How many cookies can she possibly bake? Grand mom isn’t baking cookies, she’s formulating detailed issue papers, calling congressmen and congresswomen, and perpetuating the myth that older Americans are somehow in special need of society’s largess.
I never knew.
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Brad, I’m a Granny. I make cookies and call my Senators. Only I vote for the personal accounts so my children might have more than me at retirement. I think that the AARP is worried about being out of a job if everyone down the line gets their affairs in order. Lucy Stern