Plotting a Future for Baby Boomers
The Baby Boomer Initiative Act may be the bill with the catchiest name of the 2007 General Assembly.
Approved Saturday by the House of Delegates, it addresses the needs of one of Maryland's fastest-growing populations: people born after World War II who are getting ready to retire but are in good health and have no plans to slow down.
The bill establishes the Baby Boomer Initiative Council, made up of state officials and business and university representatives who would come up with ideas for new jobs for senior citizens. The bill's sponsor, Del. James W. Hubbard (D-Prince George's), called it an effort "to keep baby boomers from falling into an empty-nest syndrome."
-- Lisa Rein
By Phyllis Jordan |
March 26, 2007; 9:21 AM ET
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Posted by: Robin Ficker | March 26, 2007 11:45 AM
Are people with over 50 years of life experience incapable of deciding what to do with their lives. This seems like a waste of legislative and financial resources.
Posted by: soccer dad | March 26, 2007 12:35 PM
Keeping the seniors employed means they keep paying those holy taxes so there's no real surprise here.
Posted by: Rufus | March 26, 2007 12:57 PM
As baby boomers hold most of the wealth in the country, and stand to benefit the most from national security, military service for them only seems fair. Kill two birds withone stone.
Posted by: q | March 26, 2007 4:56 PM
this is for "Q":
Some of Baby Boomers already served. Did you?
Posted by: step-dad | March 26, 2007 6:32 PM
Apparently there is to be no hand left unheld in this nut-job state legislature. Maryland seems not to mind being a laughingstock.
Posted by: gitarre | March 26, 2007 8:01 PM
As a Gen-X-er, I have to say that giving baby boomers more of a say than they already have gives me the chills.
They already run everything! It's like creating a middle aged white guys caucus in the US Senate.
Posted by: Larry Bud | March 27, 2007 8:24 AM
this is an excellent use of state resources at a time we are tapping the rainy day fund, draining it to the minimum allowed by law, while Maryland has a 4% unemployment rate, the best schools in the country, excellent transportation, and a thriving economy - a rainy day indeed.....
This is just the sort of thing to demonstrate the legislature's "fiscal discipline."
Let's hope Leno and Letterman don't get ahold of this.
Posted by: Anonymous | March 27, 2007 10:09 AM
What's next for these dimocrats? Giving voting rights to felons or in-state tuition to illegal immigrants? Nah, even they couldn't be that stupid!
Posted by: Rufus | March 27, 2007 2:54 PM
Keep it up Ike. Can MoCo citizens recall the county executive? Any savvy lawyers in the audience? Do tell, many are listening.
Posted by: Recall Ike | March 28, 2007 1:24 AM
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Washington Post Editors and their strawman, Ike Leggett, have already come up with a way to jam all baby boomers in Maryland. March 24's paper quotes Leggett, "in an interview with Washington Post editors and reporters," - talk about preaching to the choir - as saying we need a special session of the General Assembly to "consider increases in income taxes, sales taxes and the gas tax." Plus, he wants to increase transaction taxes on high-end (read Montgomery County) homes. As I said in the campaign, "A vote for Legget is a vote to increase your own taxes." The Washington Post editors have never seen a tax they didn't like and want to hike.