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Published October 23, 2009

Baby boomers are a budget buster chat

By By Don Davis, State Capitol Bureau, Alexandria Echo Press

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Greg N.
Alexandria, MN     11/03/2009 2:00 PM

Obviously, this doesn't come as a surprise to anyone other than the government. Anyone paying attention for the last 30+ years realized that the largest segment of population; the boomers, were paying for the generation before them. As they boomers were dying off and their workforce has been shrinking, the 'deficit' was growing. Now when it is time for them to 'get theirs' which they have in essence been paying for to a very inefficient government that has been a huge contributing factor in rapidly rising health care costs and wasting the money those very boomers were paying in. We don't need to blame this on a person or party. We just need to decide as a populous the type of role/power we want our government to have in our daily lives research and pay attention and cast an informed vote.

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Al G.
Garfield, MN     10/26/2009 7:27 PM

After Obama gives them a little pill to make them comfortable, rather than surgery, the budget will not be so bad...of course the funeral directors will be busy.

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frank t.
Alexandria, MN     10/26/2009 6:59 AM

What problem? Just have Pawlenty pawn it off on County and city governments like he has before.

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