The plan to “off” baby boomers

Geezers have an exciting new way to ensure their kids’ futures: killing themselves for payouts from insurers and the government. The heroine in satirist Christopher Buckley’s “Boomsday” proposes sparing the state the burden of caring for us after our 70th birthdays. His 29-year-old Cassandra Devine calls it “voluntary transitioning.”

But dozens of Oregonians already choose this option each year, under a law that promises their next of kin full insurance payouts.

Time magazine this week notes that Buckley “for the record, is 54,” suggesting he is representative of the generation born between 1946 and 1964.

But like his father, the conservative writer William F. Buckley) Christopher Buckley is reportedly a member of Skull and Bones. And to many esoteric researchers, this sets him apart from the rest of us.

clipped from www.time.com Cassandra Devine is a 29-year-old blogger who has had it with the government bankrupting her generation to support legions of increasingly long-lived baby boomers. “Someone my age will have to spend their entire life paying unfair taxes,” she rants, “just so the Boomers can hit the golf course at 62 and drink gin and tonics until they’re 90. What happened to the American idea of leaving your kids better off than you were?”Cassandra’s solution is a bill that would provide baby boomers with financial incentives to commit suicide–or “Voluntary Transitioning”–once they hit 70.