community college, which is the fastest growing segment of our educational system. or take a course. but just to get a skill, you don t need an extra degree. you don t necessarily need t you don t need it for your resume. you certainly want to be able to say to the people that you are talking to, hey, i know how to do that, that doesn t necessarily require a piece of paper. why do you think it has been more difficult for the boomer generation versus other generations? because they are competing with younger, cheaper labor. it is the cheaper that s the problem here. when we look at companies that are having a difficult time, they are asking themselves, how can i get what i need to get and pay as little as possible for that? chances are, that s going to be somebody right out of school. i guess i go back to this stigma, what do you do, how do you feel with an employer who simply has this built-in stigma about an older worker? this is something we change the culture, change the m
it s the year 2011 that is the year the first baby boomer turns 65. and qualifies for medicare benefits. the iceberg under the surface the liabilities in the form of promises that we have made to people particularly younger people today, that we will be able to pay them their social security, their pensions and their health care, for the rest of their lives, strongly subsidized by government. when we haven t the slightest ability to sustain and underwrite that funding without massive boar reing. borrowing far beyond massive borrowing, far beyond what we can afford. it means we would need to have somewhere in a bank 100 trillion dollars right this minute earning interest. the problem with that is, the total nation at wealth of the united states the money that every single american has saved, add it up the value of
get a 50 x 100 lot, a cape cod house, four kids, three older sisters and one bathroom, not good. but this was the were they too indulgent because of their experiences? i think that is is right. that s what we explain in the film. we go through how that generationaé1%]z wanted to prott and really do the best they could for their kids pause they didn t want them they had seen what the great depression had been. they had seen world war ii and just the meat grinder that our boys signed up for. because of that cultural reality for them, they felt they wanted to protect them. as you see the arc of this story, this epic you have to see where we came from. where the boomer generation came from. look what was bequeath to us. a country at peace with a large industrial base, sound finances if you look at the start of the story from the 50s, there s no generation
that is a dangerous thing and un-american. david: to spread the pain, what about the boss idea, get rid of the corporate breaks that we don t like and have a flat tax that everybody pays. wouldn t that be a better system? i think the lobbyists who destroyed our tax code in any sense of fairness have a role to play. what we have here is a se self-loathing nanny state. state of alaska gets more per capita dollars and somebody from alaska complains about the government. people go to tea party rallies and say don t take away my medicare but cut down big government. or you see the ad ads on tv that say you will pay nothing for the wheelchair. boomer generation as it ages get more and more selfish and it s going to cause that rift that rich talked about. david: it s true that everybody is going to tighten their belt, but the federal government is letting it looser and looser.
look for classes where instructors are willing to talk to you and modify to you needs. most instructors are, you just have to ask. donna also practices pilates. pilates has really worked my core. i thought i had a great core. and you found out after doing a feel pilates classes. exhale curl down. which is why kelly recommends this low impact, strengthening workout for the boomer generation. do you feel better when you look in the mirror after you ve worked out. i like the way i look. trying to keep my figure. and every lady no matter what her age wants to try to keep her figure. well my dad used to say if you don t watch your figure no one else will. i always think about that. i m doc, my real name is joe bloom and i m 71 years old, i ve had 7 hip replacements, and am a prostate cancer survivor.