The impact of the aging baby boom generation on the symbolic meaning of aging is predicted to
a. positively affect American’s image of older people.
b. reinforce the negative stereotypes American’s have of older people.
c. produce a split image between the "good" old and the "bad" old.
d. be negatively affected by conflicts with the younger working generation.
a.
But there is a mitigating circumstance that could affect it. If the "old" people are turned into the "bad" people because they require the money of the younger people, resulting in the anger and hostility of the younger people, then our moral and political system will have failed. The Fed owes right now 2.1 TRILLION dollars to the Social Security Administration, money it borrowed against the "old" people. How is it going to pay back the SSA? By taxing the younger people and/or by actually committing the horrific crime of turning the new Health Advisory Panels into Health Administration Panels like they have in England, panels that determine when something is too expensive, so that the "old person" must die so the young person can have it.
That would be a mitigating travesty of justice. I’m 55, I’ve paid in to the SSA, the Fed has borrowed it without my permission, actually against my wishes just as it passed the new health bill against my wishes. If some future Panel says I can’t have my meds, or my heart transplant, or that I have to go broke because none of the money I paid into SSA is available, that the rich government stole it form us poor peasants, then there is no hope for you when you get to be an "old person".
The symbolism would be reversed.