I Wish I Was 18 Again

I suppose I shouldn't be surprised, we just needed the right circumstances to create the narrative. I'm talking about age expectancy behaviors. Let me elaborate.

In life's journey, we American mortals can anticipate certain events, expectations and occurrences as age-levels come. About the age of four, children are introduced to the educational journey with something called pre-school. A year later the 'tag' is kindergarten and at age six we begin the 12-year  grade countdown towards a high school diploma with the first grade.

There are other perceived and arbitrarily assigned age-ready plateaus. At sixteen young people can become automobile drivers and at age eighteen they may drive to the polls to vote and the fellas best find their way to register for the military. Generally speaking age twenty-one is deemed the proper age for folks to legally 'belly-up-to-the-bar.'

All Americans who reach age 50, are eligible for AARP Membership although age 65 is still considered the 'Senior Citizen Club.' If one chooses one may begin drawing Social Security benefits at age 62. And of course, insurance companies have bought off the necessary 'for sale politicians' to parlay age levels when we expect you old men to get prostate cancer so no more PSA testing for you fella and you old ladies can forget that Pap smear.

Well, I thought for years that pretty well covered all the age related behavior expectations but then came along a virus pandemic. A pandemic that dictated sheltering in our homes and closing down the economy. Soon the economic health was pitted against the most vulnerable of our population and  several Republican lawmakers agreed with Texas LT. Governor Dan Patrick who suggested that grandparents are willing to die to save the economy for grandchildren.  He said,  "There are more important things than living." So, the party that pontificates the sanctity of life at its potential beginning is more than ready to throw grandma's ass on the alter of sacrifice for money.

Considering all the tax concerns GOP folks embrace it makes sense. Kill off your old people and the economy could truly benefit. The healthcare cost plummet, social security and retirement funds become more solvent and you get a better parking spot at Walmart with the reduction of handicap parking spaces.
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I Wish I Was 18 Again