Like the movie The Last of the Mohicans, America should track the baby boomers till the last living one. Like a dog who walks out into a grassy field to die, the Boomers march in unison toward the vast fields of Social Security. Unlike the dog who doesn’t disturb the field around him while he lays his head down to die, the Boomers will set on fire the field of Social Security and with their last breath destroy one more thing on their way out. The most destructive group of people in the history of our union must destroy everything in its path.

We are not close yet to the countdown of extinction of this nefarious group, but we as a society should never put them on the endangered species list and try to keep them around with advanced medical care. In truth, this self-absorbed and destructive life form is more like a virus than any other category of living organisms. The plague that has engulfed most of the world as of late can be traced right back to this virus. The latest symptom of this virus is the complete and utter bankruptcy of the greatest nation in the history of the world.

Yes, I know not all Baby Boomers are a virus, and I realize that a portion of Baby Boomers have been fighting this counterculture since the 1960s. However, it must be said that the subgroup of Boomers who have been fighting this virus within have lost the fight. Let me say that again for the Boomers who have fought these people among them. You lost the fight. The virus won and nothing short of destruction and bankruptcy of a great nation lies ahead.

The Boomers will leave behind a crippling debt that future generations will never be able to pay back or recover from. It is over. We simply will not have enough workers to pay back the tens of trillions of dollars of debt and our population is too small to have a snowball’s chance in hell of digging out of this. It is done. The only thing left is the waiting. The waiting for the inevitable.

There was a turning point or a crossroad in which Generation X could have stopped a lot of this. This was before the 2009 Wall Street bailouts took hold. If we could have somehow stopped them before this never-before-seen tax and spend to oblivion took hold, maybe we would have had a chance. However, we didn’t stop it and we allowed this virus to spread to the economic security of our nation and possibly the world.

They kept us busy chasing shiny objects of the culture wars while they insidiously enslaved us to rapacious unpayable debt. I once believed that we should build a museum to showcase the venal souls of these people. Maybe build a monument of a giant yuppie fifty-style high, but now I know we will not have any money left to do that. Impassive to their destruction, the Boomers are not done yet. As of June 2024, they are still calling the shots from the White House.

There is no doubt many more unforeseen symptoms will spread due to this virus. This quandary has no solution. This virus has no vaccine. We might even have some rosy days ahead. Maybe a couple of economic sabbaticals will give hope that there is a chance, that there is a future. During these times some will point back to the view I put forth here and say he was wrong, we can make it. However, this is only an illusion or a mirage in the desert of mass bankruptcy.

The day of reckoning will come. We will pay the piper. We simply cannot pay back this much debt. It is not possible. The gut-wrenching truth is we have never once ever in the history of mankind cured a virus, and this will be no exception.

C. Rich

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C. Rich

C. Rich is the voice behind America Speaks Ink, home to the America First Movement. As an author, freelance ghostwriter, poet, and blogger, C. Rich brings a “baked-in” perspective shaped by growing up on the streets and beaches of South Florida in the 1970s-1980s and brings a quintessential Generation-X point of view.

Rich’s writing journey began in 2008 with coverage of the Casey Anthony trial and has since evolved into a wide-ranging exploration of politics, culture, and the issues that define our times. Follow C. Rich’s writing odyssey here at America Speaks Ink and on Amazon with a multi-book series on Donald Trump called “Trump Era: The MAGA Files” and many other books and subjects C. Rich is known to cover.  CRich@AmericaSpeaksInk.com

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