Comments on: Will Baby Boomers be our next crime wave?

By: Sunday Money Roundup - County Fair Edition. | My Two Dollars

Sunday Money Roundup - County Fair Edition. | My Two Dollars — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 15:03:32 +0000

[...] place? You should read this first. Clever Dude has a funny but potentially sad post up titled Will Baby Boomers be our next crime wave? I see it now, my mom wearing a mask driving an A-Team like van speeding across state lines. [...]

By: Kyle @ Rather-Be-Shopping

Kyle @ Rather-Be-Shopping — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 21:27:53 +0000

Clever post. I can see it now, bars on the windows and doors at the old folks home!

By: plonkee

plonkee — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 17:42:25 +0000

Better your taxes than that you have to take them in yourself

If my parents go on a crime spree in their old age, I will be turning them in to the police. Tough love works.

By: Clever Dude

Clever Dude — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 16:01:06 +0000

Delroy, you got the idea of the article that it was more of a consideration of our SS system and the potential state of affairs in another 10-20 years.

I really don’t have an opinion to share about whether I want or expect the government to help me out during retirement. I do, however, wish that my SS contributions through the years would come back to me eventually, but I know that’s just a pipe dream. My taxes are going to pay for my parents’ and grandparents’ retirements.

By: Delroy

Delroy — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 15:52:14 +0000

I doubt it. Just because they are low on income doesn’t mean they are going to drop their morals/lifestyle and commit a crime. I think I understand where your idea of this might happening is coming from, and I do agree that some people may turn to this. But by in large, I think that if a person was someone who had moral problems with committing a crime when they were younger, they would, in general, stick to these morals.

Than again, I could be wrong.

The way you wrote the article, you appear to want a government-secured fixed income. I may have missed an earlier article talking about this, but what exactly do you mean? Do you mean you want the government to require that employers pay a certain pension, and if they don’t, fill in the gaps to a certain level? Or are you saying that you want a more secure Social Security? Or are you saying something else?

(If I missed an article earlier about the subject, feel free to just link me to it instead of writing it again.)

By: Clever Dude

Clever Dude — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 13:52:02 +0000

GeekMan, I said blaze of glory, but I didn’t say the fight would last very long, or hips wouldn’t get broken.

However, you probably missed my post a while back that I got beaten by the oldest finisher in the Marine Corp Marathon last year. He was 84. He beat me by 30 seconds.

Don’t underestimate the elderly!

By: GeekMan

GeekMan — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 13:45:51 +0000

Blaze of Glory? In their 70′s? The mind may be willing, but the body might falter as they try to hop over the cashier’s window counter.

However, when it comes to computer crimes, I think you might have something. Someone only needs to be of sound mind, really, to commit identity theft. Or, to hack an e-commerce website and troll for CC numbers, grandpa would just need to know a little bit of programming.

Grandpa CleverDude, Cyber-Zorro!