Mr. Obama’s War on Young Americans

It is difficult to understand why the young are so taken with Mr. Obama – if they still are that is.  He sure is playing them for fools.

His Obamacare is a scam, for the young as well as some of us not so young.  He wants them to buy health insurance, which most will not need for any foreseeable time, to offset the added costs of covering other Americans who don’t buy insurance – either because they don’t want it or they can’t afford it.

Isn’t it enough that we already make the young pay into social security while telling them that it may well be financially bankrupt when it’s their turn to file for benefits?

Isn’t it enough that we make them pay into Medicare – a future health program that is years away from meeting their needs – perhaps 30 or 40 years out, at the same time we present financial analyses predicting the program will be bankrupt in 20 years, or less?

We encourage them to go to college – get a degree – study hard – get good grades – and build up record high levels of college debt that may take them decades to repay. At the same time, we pass laws and create bureaucracies and apply so many taxes to burden our business community that business leaders take the good jobs overseas simply to compete and survive?  And ship back low quality, made in China products for the kids and the rest of us to buy.

In each of our cities and counties and towns and villages, we hire teachers and police and firemen and mayors and all sorts of administrators to work in public jobs for 25 or 30 years and we pay them very well and provide them with lots of vacation time and holidays and personal days off and then give them free health care and we promise them a pension – that will go on until they die.  Who will pay these pensions?  Young Americans will pay these obligations.  As a matter of fact, not only will they get to pay the retirees; there won’t be any money left over for the services they will need.

As if that were not enough, 20 years ago the national debt was under $5 trillion.  In a couple of years it will reach $20 trillion.  There are no plans to pay it off.  Obama just keeps adding to it – at record levels.  Adding to it and rolling it over.

Mr. Obama has declared war on the young – but never asked congress for approval.  Together they carry out this war; program by program; bureaucracy by bureaucracy; special interest by special interest. It may be a stealth war – drones with debt, but the damage is immeasurable.

As parents, we teach our young to respect adults and authority figures including the president.  It is not reasonable to respect, much less trust, a person who carries out a political agenda that destroys the future of young people.