David_N
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I'm saying that the Boomers who think that they are going to be able to:
Are going to be in for quite a surprise when all this stuff starts going down in the 2020s. They started taking from OASI to support SSDI just last year
As a generation, Boomers haven't saved for their own retirement, and they refuse to allow any changes to a system in order to save it. They're going to die in poverty and I, for one, think it couldn't happen to a more appropriate generation than the one who instituted If It Feels Good Do It And Don't Worry About The Future into the American psyche
Politicians won't let this happen. People have been spewing this crap for decades.Are going to be in for quite a surprise when all this stuff starts going down in the 2020s.
Besides, money isn't an issue, just ask Greenspan and others.
It's all accounting, nothing is actually "saved" to take from.They started taking from OASI to support SSDI just last year
Your posts read off like that of a millennial who hates old people. Claiming boomers haven't "saved" is silly, since quite a few have private retirement savings, and the fact that boomers have been paying taxes for social security, even though the tax needs to be suspended and doesn't really fund social security, it's still money being taken from these seniors.As a generation, Boomers haven't saved for their own retirement, and they refuse to allow any changes to a system in order to save it.
Because the system is fine. Money isn't an issue, we need to focus on encouraging productivity, ensuring their are enough real resources.they refuse to allow any changes to a system in order to save it
They're not going to die in poverty because the world continues to improve year after year. Food production gets better and better, new energy sources, new medical breakthroughs, world poverty continues to go down, America is a country with plenty of resources and people.They're going to die in poverty and I, for one, think it couldn't happen to a more appropriate generation than the one who instituted If It Feels Good Do It And Don't Worry About The Future into the American psyche