They Want Our Parents to Die

Talking Points Memo looks at the maggots under the rock: the backers, production company, p.r. apparatus and spokesmen who blew John Kerry out of the water with their Swift Boat scam are now targeting the AARP for its opposition to Social Security privatization. There is no low too low for these people.

David Brooks adds insult to injury — and sneakily makes the AARP the villain too. Brooks predicts that a "younger" Ross Perot will rise up

to lead a movement of people...who are offended by the horrendous burden seniors are placing on the young [...]

We may as well be blunt about the driving force behind all this. The living and well organized are taking money from the weak and the unborn. Over the past decades we have seen a gigantic transfer of wealth from struggling young families and the next generation to members of the AARP.. [Italics mine]

Don't you find it extraordinary that the mothers and fathers of those "young" are being blamed for the unsustainable BushCo deficit? (War and tax cuts, needless to say, are nowhere mentioned.) That "living and well organized" seniors are snatching food from the mouths of "struggling young families" — who in fact might well be their children and grandchildren? That the over-60 set is selfishly hoarding all those dollars that might instead go to the weak (never mind the encroaching weaknesses of advancing age) who are now suddenly the darlings of the oh-so-compassionate Mr. Brooks? (How convenient to lump "weak" with "unborn" and hit two talking points, fluttering on the wing, with one sharp stone.)

What is Brooks proposing here? It sounds to me as though he wants seniors to get lost, preferably for Eternity. (Irony upon irony: consider the refusal of the Right to accept the true compassion of assisted suicide, lest the possibility of such a caring act would cause us to dispose of older people willy-nilly, merely because they'd become an inconvenience.)

If specious argument, doubletalk and slime were real money and not just the bogus currency of the Rapacious Right, we would have no deficit. There's so much of it sloshing around that we could pay off the nation's long-term debt as well.