Reply #14: They aim to provoke conflict between the generations. "This stimulus package is Generational Theft!"

[seafan]

We all remember John McCain proclaiming these words loudly about the economic stimulus package.


This is how the angry, aggressive conservatives are shaping the discussion in their stealth campaign to obliterate Social Security and Medicare:


From William Greider in The Nation:

The ugliest ploy in their campaign is the effort to provoke conflict between the generations. "The automatic funding of Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid impedes explicit consideration of competing priorities and threatens to squeeze out spending for young people," these economists declared. Children, it is suggested, are being shortchanged by their grandparents.

Using the same old divisive tactics of divide and conquer, the shrill and angry conservatives are pitting young people against older people.

It will not work this time, fellas.