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PoliSat Rhymes about...
Baby Boomers.
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The Nanny Boom--Motherhood by Proxy (limericks) (du20000711-01)
    Yesterday Fox News reported 
    to what proxy-moms have resorted
    It is uncanny 
    that now they hire nannies 
    for kids to have proper consorting.
    To teach their kids morals and charm 
    and still chase careers with aplomb,
    They will "invest" 
    30-grand for "the best" 
    not knowing such person is "Mom."  
© 2000
---Inspired by Fox News Channel story yesterday (07-10-00) about the exploding trend in Silicon Valley for mothers with careers to pay $30,000 to $70,000 per year to provide "the best" for their children by hiring "highly educated" nannies to raise their children, help the children feel they are important members of the family "team," and teach them "morals" and "family values."  Fortunately for my kids, the "highly educated" person who taught them "morals" and "family values" and made them feel they were the center of our family was their Mom.   Jim Wrenn, Editor.

New-Millennium Child Care:  Yuppie Version of Pet Care (a limerick)(du20000507-01)
(Can you say "taxpayer funded"? -- Better yet, can you say "Hillary Care") 
I'm tired of the whining and frets 
by couples who have kids as pets. 
The proper child care 
is a Mom who is there-- 
not someone who's paid to hear frets. 
Too many women fall prey 
to the outlandlish notion that they 
must have a career 
to satisfy peers 
and leave kids with strangers all day.
Why do career gals suppose 
that others should pay through the nose 
so they can pay less 
for care they think best 
so they can keep up with the Jones? 
My boys were quite lucky guys 
as apples of their Mama's eyes.
She had a career 
but quit without fear 
to be Mom for her special guys .
She could have preferred a career 
and sent them to child-care to rear,
but she knew it best 
that we all have less 
for them to have more of her near .
Should one-income couples pay more 
in taxes for child-care galore 
so two-income fam'lies 
can sample life's candies 
and pay less for child-caring chores? 
Of course the right answer is "No." 
So who does that leave-- Do you know? 
Those two-income fam'lies 
and grandads and grannies-- 
and college-kid's parents-- but whoa ! 
All in those groups will say "No, 
we just can't afford to pay mo' "
Who, then, is left 
to be made bereft 
for yuppies to keep up their show? 
Who should be brought to their knees 
to pay for such big-spending sprees? 
They must not tax me, 
and shouldn't tax thee, 
just tax that guy behind the tree 
© 2000 (except last line)
(Reprise from http://polisat.com/du2000/du000229.htm#20000206-03)
(Poetic License since New Millennium starts 01-01-2001 and did not start on 01-01-2000)

Belated "thanks" to those in the ranks (a limerick)(du20000430-01)
    Some baby-boomers still cling 
    to views in their Sixty-Eight Spring
    They now pay lip-service 
    to those who did service 
    in words with a quite hollow ring.
    Regrets they distribute like crumbs 
    for treating our soldiers like bums/
    They still do not see 
    Vietnam would be 
    a much better place if we'd won.
    With their kids not subject to draft, 
    they suddenly learned a new craft.
    Those dads and moms 
    demanded we bomb 
    the Serbs as our new moral task.
    It just goes to show more and more, 
    it matters whose ox will be gored.
    Once they were charmed 
    with safety from harm, 
    their true colors came to the fore.  
© 2000

Boomers made the crude and the rude socially acceptable (a limerick du20000324-01)
    Before Boomers came to the fore, 
    crude language was widely deplored.
    'Though crude words were said, 
    'twas private instead 
    'cause publicly it was abhorred.
    Then self-centered Boomers arrived 
    (including this writer of rhymes)
    The song we did sing 
    was "Do Your Own Thing" 
    and acted like crudeness was fine.
    It's clear that we should have known better, 
    and been more polite like our elders.
    We hope that it ain't 
    too late for restraint 
    and know we must try to do better. 
© 2000.
--Inspired by 03-24-00 article by Ray McCallister in Richmond Times-Dispatch.
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