or are they selfish as ny times nicholas kristof describes [bugmenot login]
the non-lefty in me obviously leans towards the selfish angle as evidenced by my march 13th post
kristof summarizes 'me-first' selfishness
"We boomers are also preying on children in a more insidious way: We're running up their debts, both by creating new entitlement programs and by running budget deficits today. Laurence Kotlikoff, an economist and fiscal expert who with Scott Burns wrote the excellent and scary book 'The Coming Generational Storm,' calls this 'fiscal child abuse.'"the relatively effective compare and contrast between the elderly and children--specifically poverty and healthcare coverage--is marred by some bogus health stats. he uses an already de-bunked infant mortality stat, and childhood vaccinations of measles and polio. polio? that was all but eliminated with only ~10 cases per year in america. perhaps the reason the US is lower in vaccination rate is because other countries have higher rates of polio.
it appears a faulty grasp of statistics is a prerequiste to be a columnist for the ny times, but kristof is much better than serial offender paul krugman
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