It would sure be nice to not have to work . . . but who's gonna pay the bills?
SSI. Funnily enough, the same people who created the system are the ones who complain the most vociferously about it. They don't seem to fathom that it was a Democrat
who built the nation's lockbox, and another Democrat
who raided it.
Weekends just need to be longer.
Feh. The kids here already
have a three-day weekend, and I find it to be a hardship. I don't think the four-day school week is very effective. My nephews seem directionless and lacking in focus; they are doing nothing but playing games online or lying around all day. I don't think, education-wise, the teachers are doing anything to stimulate curiosity or incentive--they don't even seem to
care whether or not they're reaching them. Besides the loss of a day or learning, there's the lack of adequate and nutritious school lunches--I find myself preparing countless packages of Ramens, often two at a sitting, as many as eight to 10 a week, by my count. I'm not quite sure that's strictly healthy. Now I've always spoken highly of the buffets at
my former alma mater, with the sumptuous and delicious menu choices... but when Covid came along, access to dining facilities became greatly curtailed. Basically they sequestered all the students to their room, piped their lessons in over Zoom, and slid a tray of food under the door three times a day...
And it
was, it
really, really was. Little wonder the nation's universities are failing. Enrollment records have plummeted starkly, and conditions are so bad on campus now
some of your more enterprising sophomores and juniors are making a bit extra subletting their dorm rooms to older people like myself who remember how great things used to be. This could, in the long run, go very well or very bad, but I do applaud the ingenuity. Maybe this new generation'lll actually get a quality education and won't be added to the already insolvent, miserably overburdened Social Security rosters. My fellow Gen-X'ers and greybeard millennials weren't really taken care of well by The System years ago when
we were in school, you see, and many fell through the cracks. We're a "hammock generation", and as the Boomers die out and we lose their support, we're going to need to prod Gen Z and Gen Alpha to do better. After all, in the next decade or so, as we slouch slowly into dotage, we'll need
them to be able to assume taking care of us.
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