For the class of 09 things are a little bleaker than past years. Unemployment is up and large firms have cut back on hiring but there is a profession that will boom in the next few years if things continue the way the are.
Medicare and SS are in trouble. Health care is going to get a major tweaking and probably go the way of the European system. Government will run things and decide who gets what treatment. That being said the next booming profession will be morticians and grave diggers! When the old become too much of a drain on the US budget and push comes to shove where will the government be able to save money on health care? By denying heart transplants, hip replacements and many other assorted treatments needed by elderly for their quality of life. You have already heard the talk from some that abortion is good because it keeps the population down. Same goes for assisted suicide. To help Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security and health care we need to let the people who are a drain on those resources pass on to the next life so the younger more vital citizens can thrive. Thus the funeral business will boom. It may not be glamorous but there will always be customers.
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Maybe I watch too much television.
ReplyDeleteI recently saw a re-run of one of the original Twilight Zone episodes. I believe it was called “The Librarian”. An old man is brought before the one-man tribunal where he is accused of being “obsolete”. He argues that’s he’s not obsolete, he was a librarian. It seems that books are no longer used and there are no libraries other than the one he has in his apartment.
Push comes to shove and he is found guilty. The judge tells him, by law, he is able to pick the time, place and method of his death. The ending is great as he traps the judge into pleading to God to be let go out of the apartment that is about to be blown up. The next day, the judge is before a one-man tribunal being declared “obsolete” because of his plea.
This would make a great setting for what some see as happening with nationalized medicine. An elder comes before a one-man tribunal or government medical panel to request this or that medical treatment, which he can’t live without. The panel then rules that since the person is over sixty-five, he is obsolete and the government paid national medical care won’t provide it. They suggest that maybe a son or daughter might take the person in and pay for it out of their pocket. If not, the panel can recommend quality euthanasia expert to help solve the problem.
Then there was the movie, Logan’s Run. Everyone had a devise in the palm of their hand that light up when they turned thirty-five years old. At that time the citizen was expected to report to the euthanasia center where their life would be ended. Of course there were those who didn’t want to go and they would run. The government had chasers to go after the runners.
Is that the future of nationalized medicine? At age seventy-five everyone is required to report to a center to have his or her carbon footprint erased?
Finally, there was “Soilent Green”. They had centers where people who were just tired of living could go and have a peaceful death. This is much closer than many want to admit with doctor assisted suicide already being pushed in some states. The movie pictured a much nice death than the one given in “suicide booth” in Futurama.
As I said, maybe I watch too much television.
I don't know if you watch too much but you sure remember too much! I would have a hard time telling you what I watched last night. I'm just waiting for Old Timers to set in and every day will be a new adventure.
ReplyDeleteOld Timers? I wish. Everyday isn't a band new adventure. I still have to trod off to work to earn enough to pay for my Direct TV and buy new fishing lures.
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