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Baby Bomers dying off
mogley98
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So speaking of the value of Colts and other old guns, how do you see the Baby Boom generation dying off over the next twenty years impacting the prices of Guns, Real Estate, Collectibles or other economic impact?
I would assume that even with the predicted Social Security and Medicare crisis it should become a surplus when we are gone?
Surely Healthcare, knee replacements, Physical Therapy, Home Healthcare services will rise dramatically for a period.
Will we be able to flex the system up enough to cover it for such a short duration?
Will immigration make up for the population loss?
I see the last boomers possibly getting the shaft as laws are changed to lessen the impact.
If current polls are correct Conservative values will die off too, legalization of "soft" drugs, Happy marriage, inter racial marriage, Etc.
Or will the younger generations shift their opinions to more conservative as they age?
I would assume that even with the predicted Social Security and Medicare crisis it should become a surplus when we are gone?
Surely Healthcare, knee replacements, Physical Therapy, Home Healthcare services will rise dramatically for a period.
Will we be able to flex the system up enough to cover it for such a short duration?
Will immigration make up for the population loss?
I see the last boomers possibly getting the shaft as laws are changed to lessen the impact.
If current polls are correct Conservative values will die off too, legalization of "soft" drugs, Happy marriage, inter racial marriage, Etc.
Or will the younger generations shift their opinions to more conservative as they age?
Why don't we go to school and work on the weekends and take the week off!
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Folks generally become more conservative as they grow older.
you can die off it you want to, please don't speak for the rest of us.
I do not collect anything so my kin will get money and property.
I used to goto estate sales and looks to me like the kids got more of a headache going through and selling at auction the mounds of stuff left to them.
auction co usually makes more than the kids.
nobody's building now so I would think raw land with good timber would be down now thus a good time to buy, especially in states with low/no property taxes.
fill the basement up with spam cans of ammo and wait 20 years. sell as needed. do not report cash.[;)]
So speaking of the value of Colts and other old guns, how do you see the Baby Boom generation dying off over the next twenty years impacting the prices of Guns, Real Estate, Collectibles or other economic impact?
I would assume that even with the predicted Social Security and Medicare crisis it should become a surplus when we are gone?
Surely Healthcare, knee replacements, Physical Therapy, Home Healthcare services will rise dramatically for a period.
Will we be able to flex the system up enough to cover it for such a short duration?
Will immigration make up for the population loss?
I see the last boomers possibly getting the shaft as laws are changed to lessen the impact.
If current polls are correct Conservative values will die off too, legalization of "soft" drugs, Happy marriage, inter racial marriage, Etc.
Or will the younger generations shift their opinions to more conservative as they age?
We Baby Boomers have been shafting our children and grandchildren from the first day we voted through today. If some of us get a little of our own medicine at the ends of our lives, it is only justice delayed.
Your mis-understanding of actual conservatism is also stunning. Conservatism goes hand in and with a less intrusive government. To suggest that the allowance (note I did not say acceptance) of same-sex unions and even the dreaded inter-racial union is not a Conservative value only shows that one has fallen into the trap set by Jerry Falwell and his Moron Majority of the 70s and 80s.
Hopefully the younger generation will continue their strides towards a more conservative libertarian-minded future. We have failed them, and hopefully they can remove the blinders that the two major parties still attempt to affix to us all.
Brad Steele
check out the 1970's movie with charlton heston and edward g robinson.
Soylent Green
but this is just the rantings of a lunatic - we revere life so much here it could never happen.
THE VOICES ARE BACK, I MUST GO NOW.
I see the government eye balling the trillions of dolors in retirement accounts and stealing it all the while claiming that they will "take care or you" ...
If your nest egg is in an IRA or 401K, the Federal Government owns as much of that money as it wants at the time of withdrawl. Tax rates in 2025 have not yet been established.
Brad Steele
We have obviously lost a lot of them already.
Brad Steele
OK Professor Don, taken out of context BUT
traditional American values
I would be willing to bet that more folks who identify themselves as Conservative fall into your Falwell majority then you care to believe.
Hopefully the younger generation will continue their strides towards a more conservative libertarian-minded future. We have failed them, and hopefully they can remove the blinders that the two major parties still attempt to affix to us all.
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Your mis-understanding of actual conservatism is also stunning.
OK Professor Don, taken out of context BUT
traditional American values
I would be willing to bet that more folks who identify themselves as Conservative fall into your Falwell majority then you care to believe.
Hopefully the younger generation will continue their strides towards a more conservative libertarian-minded future. We have failed them, and hopefully they can remove the blinders that the two major parties still attempt to affix to us all.
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Calling oneself a conservative does not mean one actually observes or understands the traditional meaning of the term, Mr. Mogley.
When one calls upon the Federal Government to engage in something outside its Constitutionally defined charter, they lose the right to call themselves a conservative.
In my opinion.
Brad Steele
quote:Originally posted by rambo rebel
I see the government eye balling the trillions of dolors in retirement accounts and stealing it all the while claiming that they will "take care or you" ...
If your nest egg is in an IRA or 401K, the Federal Government owns as much of that money as it wants at the time of withdrawl. Tax rates in 2025 have not yet been established.
Thats why I have never invested one penny in those accounts...I am a land baron....cash conservative...
So speaking of the value of Colts and other old guns, how do you see the Baby Boom generation dying off over the next twenty years impacting the prices of Guns, Real Estate, Collectibles or other economic impact?
I would assume that even with the predicted Social Security and Medicare crisis it should become a surplus when we are gone?
Surely Healthcare, knee replacements, Physical Therapy, Home Healthcare services will rise dramatically for a period.
Will we be able to flex the system up enough to cover it for such a short duration?
Will immigration make up for the population loss?
I see the last boomers possibly getting the shaft as laws are changed to lessen the impact.
If current polls are correct Conservative values will die off too, legalization of "soft" drugs, Happy marriage, inter racial marriage, Etc.
Or will the younger generations shift their opinions to more conservative as they age?
Like a lot of people in this country you have gone along with the religious/moral values equal conservative values philosophy. Each is (or should be anyway) separate and independent of the other.
Conservatism did, and still should, mean the least restrictive/intrusive role possible for government, (conservative government) while liberalism would mean liberal or more restrictive/intrusive government.
This is the reason I use the terms conservative and liberal sparingly. Most people have no idea what the terms should mean anymore. Both terms have been co-opted for various political agendas.
The religious right (as they so often refer to themselves) by demanding government be involved in laws governing moral behavior most certainly are not conservative in their expectations of government intrusion into individual liberty. They do not believe in the separation of church and state as they willing push for criminal and civil laws to control moral behavior in line with their religious beliefs. They seek to deny individuals of the most basic element of both individual liberty and Christianity, free enterprise. The choice each individual is supposed to have to make their own decisions and their own mistakes.
As long is a person's actions do not harm another person or another person's property why should that action be against the law? Why do so many of today's so called conservatives willingly lobby to deny people the right to their own individual choices? That is not conservatism.
Debating the definition of conservative wasn't even remotely the subject. I should be more worried about the spelling police.
I don't dispute your definitions of a true conservative, perhaps I should have used a better term or something.
My point was simply that a large percentage of those who identify themselves as conservative in political views also lean towards the government preventing happy marriage, and other religious right values. Those were numbers from the polls based on age groups not my opinion.
Nuff said
quote:Originally posted by SCOUT5
quote:Originally posted by mogley98
So speaking of the value of Colts and other old guns, how do you see the Baby Boom generation dying off over the next twenty years impacting the prices of Guns, Real Estate, Collectibles or other economic impact?
I would assume that even with the predicted Social Security and Medicare crisis it should become a surplus when we are gone?
Surely Healthcare, knee replacements, Physical Therapy, Home Healthcare services will rise dramatically for a period.
Will we be able to flex the system up enough to cover it for such a short duration?
Will immigration make up for the population loss?
I see the last boomers possibly getting the shaft as laws are changed to lessen the impact.
If current polls are correct Conservative values will die off too, legalization of "soft" drugs, Happy marriage, inter racial marriage, Etc.
Or will the younger generations shift their opinions to more conservative as they age?
Like a lot of people in this country you have gone along with the religious/moral values equal conservative values philosophy. Each is (or should be anyway) separate and independent of the other.
Conservatism did, and still should, mean the least restrictive/intrusive role possible for government, (conservative government) while liberalism would mean liberal or more restrictive/intrusive government.
This is the reason I use the terms conservative and liberal sparingly. Most people have no idea what the terms should mean anymore. Both terms have been co-opted for various political agendas.
The religious right (as they so often refer to themselves) by demanding government be involved in laws governing moral behavior most certainly are not conservative in their expectations of government intrusion into individual liberty. They do not believe in the separation of church and state as they willing push for criminal and civil laws to control moral behavior in line with their religious beliefs. They seek to deny individuals of the most basic element of both individual liberty and Christianity, free enterprise. The choice each individual is supposed to have to make their own decisions and their own mistakes.
As long is a person's actions do not harm another person or another person's property why should that action be against the law? Why do so many of today's so called conservatives willingly lobby to deny people the right to their own individual choices? That is not conservatism.
I don't know why I'm even bothering to but....Yer way over thinking it and you are assuming an awful lot LOL
Debating the definition of conservative wasn't even remotely the subject. I should be more worried about the spelling police.
I don't dispute your definitions of a true conservative, perhaps I should have used a better term or something.
My point was simply that a large percentage of those who identify themselves as conservative in political views also lean towards the government preventing happy marriage, and other religious right values. Those were numbers from the polls based on age groups not my opinion.
Nuff said
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I know you addressed much more than this. Maybe I wrote so much because I was discussing this very topic with someone earlier today.
I am at the tail end of the baby boom generation. So as we progress down this road things will be different for me than those ahead of me. So if we get the shaft I guess folks my age will get the big end of it.
No doubt many things will change. Certainly the collectibles market will change as some of the things we value will hold less value to the younger folks, and that includes collectible guns. I don't think population loss will be an issue as far as numbers go. The change in the population makeup will change as so many of the baby boomers are of European decent. Real estate is always changing hands as people are always dying. There will be a lot of property owners dying off so it will have to effect the market, good, bad, up or down, I don't know.