Fully automatic banana cream pies "Eat this, yuppie scum!"

(LOL, don't mess with us 'older folks' & S.S, you haven't even seen 'grumpy')


Fully automatic banana cream pies locked, loaded
Gene Lyons

Posted on Wednesday, February 2, 2005

I swear if I hear one more twentysomething in a power suit smugly
assure a TV interviewer how much better they can handle their money
than (snicker) Social Security, things could get ugly. Lately, I've
been fantasizing about storming a Starbucks armed with fully automatic
banana cream pies. "Eat this, yuppie scum!" Listening to these Young
Republicans is like hearing your 18-year-old tell you he doesn't need
a seat belt because his reflexes are so superior he couldn't possibly
have an accident. I recently saw some puppy on CBS News boasting about
his investment acumen. I couldn't tell if he was another ringer like
last month's CBS poster child for Social Security "reform." They
softpedaled the fact that Tad DeHaven, who opined that he'd never see
a dime due to Social Security's inevitable collapse, works for the
National Taxpayers Union, a tycoon-funded Washington think tank
devoted to the premise that government benefit checks ruin the
character of the roughly 50 percent of old-timers with no other
income. Mr. Confident Investor was 27. I couldn't help noticing that
he looked like the "before" half of a Hair Club for Men commercial.

Which has nothing to do with anything, except that I doubt premature
baldness was part of his life plan. But get rear-ended on the freeway
and end up paralyzed? Have a stroke or disabling heart attack? A child
with cerebral palsy? Work for a company that crashes, voiding his
stock options? Lose his 401 (k) in the next Enron or WorldCom fiasco?
Not him, no way. He's a winner. Social Security's for losers.

Look, punk, it's an insurance policy, not an IRA. But there's a reason
we're seeing all these boy-in-the-street interviews, and it's not
simply polls showing that high percentages of young people believe
that Social Security is doomed. (Some also show that only 26 percent
of Americans 18 to 34 read newspapers, which explains a lot.)
Presenting opinions instead of facts makes it easier to avoid
mentioning that President Bush's campaign to "privatize" the most
successful government program in U.S. history is based entirely upon
shameless falsehoods.

Whoops, I've used obsolete terminology. "Privatize" was last year's
buzzword. Apparently because it worried voters that Republicans were
fixing to give Social Security a ride on a Wall Street roulette wheel,
the mandatory new phrase is "personal accounts." Bush recently scolded
Washington Post reporters for using the forbidden word, only to have
them show that he himself touted "privatization" just months ago.

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• Free-lance columnist Gene Lyons is a Little Rock author and
recipient of the National Magazine Award.

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those young whipper-snappers are playing with a hornets nest!

Of course, I wouldn't mind hitting a few of these types with cream pies. Republican or no Republican.

use lemon meringue instead. Those yuppie scumbags aren't worthy of banana creme! :P

Cow pies. :P

you don't want to eat cold one do you? They would like the warmed :D

Good one! :thumbsup:

Where the smarmy young'ins talk about "not relying on the government" (before cutting to a picure of a tortoise), how they are "modern capitalist mavericks" (while washing their kid's hair), and how they defiantly would be "relying on ourselves."


What happened to the company that ran those commercials? Oh, yeah - their stock tanked . .:eyes:

(Submitted by a 34 year-old)

and nobody, *nobody* on this planet pisses me off more than these little young republican pansies.

n/t

draft 'em, but really I wouldn't wish that on anybody, especially under the current war criminal administration.
I would suggest however that they enlist, when they spout off how great our war resident is.

Especially when they come at it from a Republican - i.e., totally wrong and out of touch - perspective.

n/t

I've worked with some 'young' activists who are a lot wiser and more focused than I remember being at the same age.
There are some tremendously committed and compassionate people in the 'generations' being addressed here.

But, there are yuppies on both sides of the fence and both types annoy me.

Is this the one Bush and the Repubs are whining about?

https://www.moveon.org/donatec4/socialsecurity.html#
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