Age Discrimination

I was in the License Office today and through the extended wait that we experienced, I read the new laws regarding the requirements for a Driver's License in the state of Missouri. Now, I could blog on and on about the new laws that inconvenience the law abiding citizens and invade our privacy, but I have a different topic to address. As I read all this new security nonsense, and that's exactly what it is, I noticed that there is an exemption to the requirements of a birth certificate or a passport. If you are over 65 years old, you don't have to go through what the rest of us have to. The "seniors" don't have to bring in a passport or certified birth certificate, all they have to bring is the signed note from the eye doctor saying they don't have to take the eye exam! Well, you know what . . . there is an incredible amount of age discrimination against those of us who are under 65. The fact is, that this senior generation is exhausting social security while still passing judgment upon and inconveniencing those that are contributors. This is the only age group that gets to live off of the government while having the choice to work, but few of them have the time to do that, as they are much more consumed with trips on OATS buses and bank luncheons for the "silver" accounts. The senior citizens of this country have the privilege of reduced prices for dinners and for drugs. The seniors have the grand privilege of an income far above that of minimum wage, while also receiving medical treatment, special banking privileges and are certainly the only generation able to reap the benefits of larger bank accounts. And it's so funny to listen to them. They worked for it! Well, their children and grandchildren are working for what they will never see, and it amazes me that these people that think the whole world should accomodate them, truly don't mind taking the food out of their own grandchildren's mouth. Just more age discrimination against those of us that are under the age of 65. Banks do attempt to lessen the discrimination. Many banks offer privileged accounts over the age of 50 and some restaurants draw the line of reduced cost at 55. But that is still age discrimination. The senior citizens have done what every other "group" has done. They have hollered discrimination until the scale of justice has shifted, not balanced, just shifted until it is heavy in their favor. There is a difference, though, in this shift brought about under the guise of age discrimination. As people stand up against racial discrimination or for those with disabilities or for gender equality, it benefits the generations that will come after. But the trumped up charge of "age discrimination" has truly made life more difficult and resulted in discrimination against the future generations.

and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth generation