Also, my goal with this post was to examine physical debt and what it is doing to our body. I’m not sure why you got so worked up about the financial and monetary part of it, maybe it’s the fault of the author for not being clear enough.

I’m glad you’re so passionate about the political side of things but that wasn’t the focus of this piece.

I think you give the Boomers too much credit. Before they came to vote, the US’d never experienced major debt outside crises. Many voted for Reagan, whom pursued policies that ran up huge debts by adding tax cuts on top of the usual high spending. Of course, those tax cuts are on OUR backs much less than theirs. They revoted for Reagan in huge numbers, and were happy with politicians whom ran up the debt. Both parties’ve extended Boomer benefits with only token payment. Baby Boomer presidents made no effort atall to be responsible about reforming their takings from us and our kids.

The test of history’s on post-Boomer generations to see if we can free ourselves from the addiction.