The Real Class Warfare is Baby Boomers Vs. Younger Americans

Reason Magazine ^ | 11 July 12 | Nick Gillespie

[RKV]

Hey kids, wake up! Stop playing your X-Box while listening to your Facebooks on the iPod and wearing your iPad with the cap turned backwards with the droopy pants and the bikini underwear listening to Snoopy Poopy Poop Dogg and the Enema Man and all that!

Take a break from getting yet another tattoo on your ass bone or your nipples pierced already! And STFU about the 1 Percent vs. the 99 Percent!

You're not getting screwed by billionaires and plutocrats. You're getting screwed by Mom and Dad.

[GOPJ]

...technically, those born between 1946 and 1964 but or all intents and purposes folks 55 years and older - focused on how stupid old people were ..

Ummmm, it was "don't trust anyone over 30", not 'we resent our elders'...

And the oldest boomer is 66... Above that was the 'other generation'. Boomers weren't in class-warfare with those over thirty - we didn't want their money or what they had worked for - we just didn't 'get' their ideas. This guy needs to get his facts straight.

[GOPJ]

...technically, those born between 1946 and 1964 but or all intents and purposes folks 55 years and older - focused on how stupid old people were ..

Ummmm, it was "don't trust anyone over 30", not 'we resent our elders'...

And the oldest boomer is 66... Above that was the 'other generation'. Boomers weren't in class-warfare with those over thirty - we didn't want their money or what they had worked for - we just didn't 'get' their ideas. Nick Gillespie needs to get his facts straight.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

Yes and no. Technically in Mexican territory, but contiguous with the US border, and under special rules.

One concept of such medical enclaves is that they are fenced communities, built and operated by American companies, but with most staff being Mexicans, with some specialist US doctors.

The North entrance leads to the US crossing, and authorized American citizens can easily go back and forth across that border, which is not for non-US nationals. The South entrance to the enclave is just for authorized Mexicans to easily go in and out.

The enclave itself has hospitals, nursing homes, housing facilities, support facilities, concessions, etc.

Mexico benefits by earning a whole lot of money in the deal, and the Americans by saving a whole lot of money.

North of the border entrance, there is a small airport and rail terminal, as well as a highway. This will make supplies available as the enclave much easier to visit by authorized Americans.

To put it all in perspective, nursing homes in the US are now so expensive that ambulatory elderly people are instead living on cruise ships for about the same price, and getting more and better care as well.

[9YearLurker]

I can’t help but think that is a dreadful, inhuman solution.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

If you want dreadful and inhuman, check out what we have now.

Actually, I will advise against it. From my own experience, my first visit to such a place, one of the “better” ones, was to drop off some small items for an older woman neighbor.

Very institutional, with painted brick walls, its corridors full of old widow women side by side on wheelchairs, staring blankly into space, or the painted brick wall in front of them, or asleep. An absence of stimulation, a feeding ground for dementia.

A few new ones, either completely confused or upset, wanting desperately to go home.

At that point I resolved that if I was ever in such a situation, that I would bug out to rural Mexico, where I could have a place to stay and people to take care of me, and when I died I would be given a nice funeral and at least someone would miss me. And be buried in an unmarked grave against some nosy American government employee who couldn’t close my dossier until he had proof that I was dead.

[9YearLurker]

An individual choosing to ‘post-retire’ in a lower-cost location, I could understand.

But the US shipping its indigent elderly to a third-world holding pen until death sounds absolutely horrid.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

Lots of Americans already go to Mexico for health care reasons. Getting the same surgery from competent surgeons for $10-30,000 less is very appealing to a lot of people. Often American surgeons will go there just to perform surgeries without having to carry millions of dollars in malpractice insurance.

Add to that there are already a bunch of major retirement communities there for Americans, some specialize just for Canadians. Though estimates of how many Americans live there full time are inflated, about 125,000 is a reasonable estimate.

Unless you specifically choose a place that is rural or rustic, a lot of these American expat communities are very modern and comfortable, with lots of swimming pools, golf courses, green landscaping, etc.

Bottom line, Mexico isn’t the Moon, and while there is a lot of poverty in Mexico, if you don’t want to revel in it you don’t have to.