Perhaps a more accurate headline would be "Baby boomers already paid for the aging water infrastructure once, and won't be using it much longer, so f*ck you".

Death Panels are sounding more and more like a good thing.

You whiny whippersnappers have obviously never heard stories about priming the pump to fill the cistern, then dragging water inside in buckets through the snow to heat it for your Saturday night bath.

My parents used to tell me those stories all the time.

/Suck it, Generation I-can't-make-my-mind-up-what-letter-to-use.

Dancin_In_Anson:

Done in one. How you been my old friend?!

Dude! *hugs! How are you and the Mama doing?!

netweavr: Death Panels are sounding more and more like a good thing.

Go for it, Bubba. If you think you can escape old age, and be exempt from them, you're good. Otherwise you are signing your own death warrant.

Aarontology: .

See, here's how I look at it. They've been in charge for thirty years. They could have realized that the infrastructure in this country desperately needs to be regularly updated and fixed. Water, roads, bridges, etc have been neglected for decades. They didn't.

Now that it's at the point of near collapse, their kids and grandkids have to pay for it. I don't mind paying for it because America's infrastructure is what helps make us great, and we all need it, but I am a little miffed that the Boomers act like they bear no responsibility for the state of it.

How long have you been alive? Then by your figuring, that is how long you have been in charge, and you would be equally responsible for your portion of it.

The problem with the younger people today is that they aren't smart enough to figure out that politicians lie, divert funds to their own pet causes, and often their own pockets (If indirectly) without making people aware of it. They fall for the trap of pitting one generation against the other, instead of taking a hard look at the people in charge, and the people actually responsible for the neglect.

Did you city put in an art center instead of working on the infrastructure? That isn't the boomer's fault. Was the populace screaming for a metrorail that was funded? That wasn't the boomer's fault. You need to take another look at what the people are asking for and being granted, what is done in the name of drawing tourism to your area, and things of the sort. It isn't until the various municipalities hear people screaming that they want the infrastructure fixed that it is going to be fixed, and often at the cause of another pet project.

And if something is the boomer's fault, it is because they vote. I know... you are thinking it surely couldn't be the fault of those that don't vote.

Dancin_In_Anson:

Not bad a-tall! I see you're still on the Gulf!

Eh, we are a little further inland... got to play with the wildfires this year instead of hurricane. I walked a horse out of the fire (9/5), because we only had room in the trailer for 5 horses, and we have 6. Couldn't ride the old fella, because we were engulfed in smoke, and the fire trucks were blowing by doing 60 with the ir lights and sirens going, and he got a little spooky. :)

But it's all one grand adventure, as it was meant to be!

Boomers are the generation that swallowed hook, line, and sinker the Reagan era voodoo economics. And the minority of Boomers who didn't refused to push back against the propaganda.

The 1% are still the evil overlords but Boomers are, at best, useful idiots.

Sorry dumbasses, we built it for you from scratch, your turn now.

What's all this crying over waterworks?

Everybody knows that if you pray hard enough, Jesus will bring you water!

Dancin_In_Anson: What the ever loving fark are you babbling about now boy?

I'm pretty sure that's Farks motto

Yeah well.
The boomers are headed for a quiet peaceful passing all alone in some flophouse while lying in their own shiat.

/Sucks to be them.
//That's what you get for bleeding an entire economy dry and then happily participating in the mass theft that finally killed it.
///Karma, you 60s flower children, karma.

how bout part of the 45 trillion the top 25% hold in wealth as opposed to the 6 trillion the rest of the county combined owns.

KarmicDisaster: Sorry dumbasses, we built it for you from scratch, your turn now.

This is true.

Which means you didn't have to spend the step of maintaining the obsolete, broke-dick system until the new one was ready to step up and do the job...and the job of removing the remains of the obsolete system.

/thanks for using so much asbestos and lead
//there are whole industries dedicated to resolving THAT choice

As a member of Gen Y: If you want to use the system, pay into the system.

/works in the power industry

Ishidan: /thanks for using so much asbestos and lead
//there are whole industries dedicated to resolving THAT choice

That's job creation. Don't knock it.

They'll discover a lot of poor areas are still fed with lead pipes and cities can't afford the lawsuits....whoops I've said too much.

Drfinlay suggests privatization

What could POSSIBLY go wrong?!?

KarmicDisaster: Sorry dumbasses, we built it for you from scratch, your turn now.

Yeah, with your children's tax dollars. And you got paid a fair wage to do it.

Thanks for buying in to the pandering that led our nation to this point: broke and politically crippled.

Not the 1%
They drink bottled water.