We all love Gramps, but he's an economic menace. My contemporaries and I drooling on park benches in sufficient numbers, feeding pigeons and drawing pensions for 20-30 years after retirement, can bankrupt Canada without any assistance from anybody.I can't wait.
Droolingly yours,
Gene :-)
Worth a read, as are all of Jonas' pieces: here.
Good quote, Gene.
ReplyDeleteHopefully we will have the chance to drool away in peace, but sometimes I wonder if some young, grim economist will read P.D. James' Children of Men and not get that it's satire. James posits this near future where the government has a self-euthanasia package called Quietus (the slogan for it is "You decide when" and encourages the old geezers to take it, which they do since the world is so bloody awful.
Good post.