http://www.geezersisters.com/finances/taking-care-of-the-greatest-generation Austin, Texas novelist Ruth Pennebaker, who's old enough to call herself "fabulous," writes about family, politics, marriage, friendship, feminism, aging and whatever else occurs to her. Her latest novel, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakthrough, was published by Berkley in January 2011. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:24:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.geezersisters.com/finances/taking-care-of-the-greatest-generation/comment-page-1#comment-446 Carol Flake Chapman Wed, 01 Oct 2008 14:57:02 +0000 http://www.geezersisters.com/?p=400#comment-446 Ruth, thanks for your thoughtful post, which makes me think of my parents and grandparents as well, and how they scrimped and saved. I think the so-called bailout should come with buckets of tar so that we can tar and feather those "masters of the universe" you're talking about. I'd love to see those Brooks Brothers suits with a nice coating of icky black stuff. But it should also come with buckets of blame going all the way back to Alan Greenspan, who got us started on this slippery slope with his "easy money" policies. And all those real estate brokers and mortgage co. reps who just wanted folks to sign on the dotted line, whether they could afford what they were buying. And the builders who kept the bulldozers going long after the market was sated. And the bankers who were happy to pass along more and more of the damaged goods in plain brown wrappers. And yes, the folks who were lured into buying the Whopper rather than the plain little burger they could afford. Ruth, thanks for your thoughtful post, which makes me think of my parents and grandparents as well, and how they scrimped and saved. I think the so-called bailout should come with buckets of tar so that we can tar and feather those “masters of the universe” you’re talking about. I’d love to see those Brooks Brothers suits with a nice coating of icky black stuff. But it should also come with buckets of blame going all the way back to Alan Greenspan, who got us started on this slippery slope with his “easy money” policies. And all those real estate brokers and mortgage co. reps who just wanted folks to sign on the dotted line, whether they could afford what they were buying. And the builders who kept the bulldozers going long after the market was sated. And the bankers who were happy to pass along more and more of the damaged goods in plain brown wrappers. And yes, the folks who were lured into buying the Whopper rather than the plain little burger they could afford.

]]> http://www.geezersisters.com/finances/taking-care-of-the-greatest-generation/comment-page-1#comment-444 fred Tue, 30 Sep 2008 00:33:15 +0000 http://www.geezersisters.com/?p=400#comment-444 It seems like this whole mess has become one big pissing contest. There's enough blame to go around, thats for sure. But we had better unite,  get this cleaned up, or we'll all be stuck in that vast darkness of the unknown for a long period of time. It seems like this whole mess has become one big pissing contest. There’s enough blame to go around, thats for sure. But we had better unite,  get this cleaned up, or we’ll all be stuck in that vast darkness of the unknown for a long period of time.

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