I was amused to see Greg Jayne’s opinion piece about baby boomers hitting such a nerve (“Boomers making country go bust,” The Columbian, Nov. 17).
While he makes a point, we boomers are getting a fair amount of help from nonboomers to send our country down the river. This includes our congresswoman, who has decided that huge deficits from the tax break she helped pass under her incoherent party’s leadership is making America great again. In her view, as long as we all have cash in our pockets, the government can go broke.
There is a more grotesque fatalism inherent in her nonboomer thinking than mine. I see the need to drastically reduce military spending and have told her this since I retired from the military in 2011 and made my first in-person visit to her D.C. office to express that to her face-to-face. I have written her continuously of the need to address infrastructure funding since then, as well. She is happy to let it all go, as long as she can keep getting elected. She is truly one of the most adroit political weasels I have ever seen, and has mastered her weaseling at such a young age.
