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Music business, finance, and accounting. As Helen Andrews recently pointed out, America's workforce is turning into a pink-collar economy.

Part of the reason for this is that our population is aging out. Younger people aren't reproducing,

so the fastest growing jobs are in health care. More specifically, the top-growing field is among home health care aides. As she pointed out, this shows that America is increasingly

geriatric in many ways that America is quite literally dying, dying a slow, lingering death,

not unlike the bearers of those sad, empty faces at the nursing home with no one to visit.

But it's also symptomatic of a much larger problem that Russ Green recently expounded upon in the

American mind in his article, What is Total Boomer Luxury Communism?

Simply put, total boomer luxury communism means the way our current government siphons money from the younger working class and funnels it to seniors who are on average much wealthier.

Our system works to keep old people in their homes with comfortable wages from Social Security, which can rise as high as $60,000 per year for an individual or just shy of $120,000 for a couple.

Most people don't know this, but Medicare programs also pay for golf balls, greens fees,

social club memberships, horseback riding lessons, and even pet food. This means that as younger

working families are struggling to get by, they're also being

burdened with taxes to ensure that their parents and grandparents' generation can golf in the

morning, horseback ride in the afternoon, have cocktails in the evening at the country club, and

return home to sleep quietly in a million dollar home that they paid $37 and three sticks of

string cheese for back in 1975. A little bit of an overstatement, but not much. Now, sure,

wages haven't kept pace with inflation or the housing market, but at least young people should

take solace that their taxes make it possible for older generations to take

that luxury cruise, right? Now, ironically, as Green points out, America actually spends significantly

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