Peggy Noonan is right, America “isn’t a country anyone should be playing games with,” but that is exactly what our politicians are doing. They are playing the same game that has been played out unabated over the past 40 years and if “everyone over 50” in this country feels like a refugee, then it is about time! I feel no sympathy for those who have had stewardship over this great country and have failed us on so many fronts. See, I am a married (can’t just assume this in today’s culture) 36 year old father of 4 who has been tasked with cleaning up the cultural and governmental mess those over 50 have helped create for us. While campaigning for Congress during the last election cycle I spoke to many of the older generation who were getting involved in politics for the first time, openly admitting they were too selfish and apathetic through most of their adult lives. Tragically, I ran into quite a few who are still mired in self-interest and really do not care what happens as long as the current debates do not affect their Social Security or Medicare. My wife and I have already accepted the fact that we and our children will have to make sacrifices if we want America to ever resemble the America of our grandparents… we are not naïve to the fact that they had their problems too, but nothing like this. The issues of spending and debt are minuscule compared to what it will take to turn America back to a more “wholesome” time. The wholesomeness I long for, like many of my generation, is one where personal responsibility trumps personal appetites, where work is celebrated for its intrinsic worth, where mutual respect and common decency are the norm, not the exception, where faith is still the cornerstone of moral behavior regardless of the god one worships and where our kids can go out and play in the street without us worrying about them being “distorted or disturbed” by our modern “assaultive culture.” Instead of longing for a better America, I hope those over 50 will take responsibility for their part in this mess and start doing something to make it better.
Here is Peggy Noonan’s article http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304203304576446401596600060.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
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