{"id":265516,"date":"2010-02-02T12:25:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T17:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/us-elderly-must-stop-destroying-the-economy-2010-2"},"modified":"2010-02-02T12:25:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-02T17:25:00","slug":"its-time-for-you-old-people-to-stop-destroying-the-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/265516","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Time For You Old People To Stop Destroying The Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/02\/02\/opinion\/02brooks.html?ref=opinion\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"float_right\" src=\"http:\/\/static.businessinsider.com\/image\/4a8af41c0cf1ef01015fa702-341-256\/elderlytaxtbijpg.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"elderlytaxtbi.jpg\" width=\"341\" height=\"256\" \/>From NYTimes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>One of the keys to healthy aging is what George Vaillant of Harvard  calls &ldquo;generativity&rdquo; &mdash; providing for future generations. Seniors who  perform service for the young have more positive lives and better  marriages than those who don&rsquo;t. As Vaillant writes in his book &ldquo;Aging  Well,&rdquo; &ldquo;Biology flows downhill.&rdquo; We are naturally inclined to serve  those who come after and thrive when performing that role.<\/p>\n<p>The  odd thing is that when you turn to political life, we are living in an  age of reverse-generativity. Far from serving the young, the old are now  taking from them. First, they are taking money. According to Julia  Isaacs of the Brookings Institution, the federal government now spends  $7 on the elderly for each $1 it spends on children.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/02\/02\/opinion\/02brooks.html?ref=opinion\">Read the rest at NYTimes &#8211;&gt;<\/a><br \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/us-elderly-must-stop-destroying-the-economy-2010-2#comments\">Join the conversation about this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>See Also:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/obamas-problem-is-that-old-people-and-the-white-working-class-thinks-he-is-in-the-pocket-of-the-wealthy-corporate-elite-2010-1\">Obama&#8217;s Problem Is That Old People And The White Working Class Thinks He Is In The Pocket Of The Wealthy Corporate Elite<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/even-a-perfect-cyclical-recovery-will-be-crippled-by-americas-shifting-demographics-2010-1\">How America&#8217;s Changing Demographics Will Crush Even A Perfect, Cyclical Recovery<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/gartman-heres-why-the-unemployment-arithmetic-must-be-wrong-2009-12\">Gartman: Here&#8217;s Why The Unemployment Arithmetic Must Be Wrong<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheMoneyGame\/~4\/FK44enGfGsw\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From NYTimes: One of the keys to healthy aging is what George Vaillant of Harvard calls &ldquo;generativity&rdquo; &mdash; providing for future generations. Seniors who perform service for the young have more positive lives and better marriages than those who don&rsquo;t. As Vaillant writes in his book &ldquo;Aging Well,&rdquo; &ldquo;Biology flows downhill.&rdquo; We are naturally inclined [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-265516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}