Why don't the geezers do what's right.

David Brooks asks why the Geezers don't do what is right and organize a reduction in the ludicrous transfer of wealth from the powerless (their children and grandchildren) to the powerful (them). You know it would be nice if our parents were to sit down and tell us that they're sorry for burdening our generation with their greed - imagine that, the richest electorates in the history of the world deciding that they didn't have enough so they nick their kids. You get a lot of oldsters talking about the problem but when it comes time to take the check, by golly, they belly up to the trough with their bibs on. Yum!

Nope, not gonna happen - grannies are going to continue to give us hugs, cookies and bankruptcy. My goodness gracious! How DID you get that red ink all over you?

I've asked my pastor why this isn't a moral issue - after all one generation is stealing the sweat off the brow of another - involuntary servitude really. I don't get anything except tepid clichés and silence. But of course our Church was a slave church and never said boo about the slavers in their midst pre 1865. And they're thinking: "well we survived that, so we'll survive this". But they forget: there were no slave members in 1865. When this comes down half the church will be slaves to the other half. It will tear congregations to shreds.

And the Pastors who have stuck with the old looters because they had all the money and power will be crucified on their crosses of gold. Hey! I'm channeling William Jennings Bryan! Talk about an old looter!