No, they won't be old and dependent. The Boomers will be old and VOTING. Old people vote like no tomorrow and they also have the most powerful lobby in the country. When you're retired you have all the time in the world to stand in voting lines. Hell, it's even something they look forward to. Retirement communities always have a bus system and box lunch to take to the polls.
The Boomers will also live far longer, in better health, and in greater numbers than any other previous generation as well. They're not dropping off the map any time soon.
If you think the voters of the Greatest Generation (who have at least some sense of thrift from having lived through the Depression. My grandfather had millions but still sat in the kitchen clipping coupons every Sunday morning) have proven formidable as the oldster voting bloc, just wait until the Boomers get hold of it. They will outvote everything GenX and the Millenials oppose. They will vote themselves entitlements and Social Security and Medicare benefits like we have never seen all the while whining and moaning about how the slacker younger generations don't understand the Boomers' need for self-fulfillment (at our expense) because, damnit, "we're worth it!"
The Boomers will also live far longer, in better health, and in greater numbers than any other previous generation as well. They're not dropping off the map any time soon.
If you think the voters of the Greatest Generation (who have at least some sense of thrift from having lived through the Depression. My grandfather had millions but still sat in the kitchen clipping coupons every Sunday morning) have proven formidable as the oldster voting bloc, just wait until the Boomers get hold of it. They will outvote everything GenX and the Millenials oppose. They will vote themselves entitlements and Social Security and Medicare benefits like we have never seen all the while whining and moaning about how the slacker younger generations don't understand the Boomers' need for self-fulfillment (at our expense) because, damnit, "we're worth it!"
