re: Social Security and Medicare need to be eliminated

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Pure poppycock.

If the federal government would cut the wife and myself a check for $1.5 million that should cover all the taxes we and our employers have paid into SS and Medicare over the past 45 years. The $1.5 million includes an annual return of 4-5%.

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But to not do it, means someone else will have to sacrifice. Like I said, I don't expect a noble response from Boomers, they were handed everything, will take everything. It's the goal of that generation.

To get everything for themselves and not worry about the consequences. Someone else can take the hit.

bullshite about SS. My parents were forced to pay into social security for 50 years and they deserve that money. frick off with your entitled arse.

Let me say that again.. they were forced to pay into social security for 50 years. Again, forced.

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Didn't get a damn thing handed to me.

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Don't take it personally, really.

Look, I'm not saying you didn't work as a person, I'm saying the generation was given a situation far ahead of anyone else before them and after them. You were handed a mostly well-structured economy, a one income-based economy with a good housing market. Wasn't outsourced, didn't have the complexity of such dominant social programs, etc.

Boomers had something unique, and instead of continuing the good will, Boomers operated in a far more selfish capacity as a generation, completely changed the economic structure, and they did it while they were in power, held power longer than everyone else, and continue to support sinking ships like SS. All of the choices Boomers made while they were the dominant generation were to enrich themselves in that moment, without any thought given to the future. That is true. (But Boomers do think they built some kind of utopia for all other generations, it's hilarious)

You want yours. Look, I get it. Of course that's a natural feeling.

But sacrifice is a thing. Doing the right thing matters. And there is a "right" move here. There is a sacrifice that SOMEONE is going to make. That much is clear. Boomers could realize what they did and maybe help figure out a better way. But again, I don't expect much from a selfish generation.

Here's the thing, you think:

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Started working at age 14 doing farm work, laid sod, worked as a carpenter building houses, worked in a meat packing plant, ran heavy equipment, worked on the railroad, went back to school at age 29 for electronic school, took out the loans for school, got an Associates Degree in Applied Science Electronic Technology, after I graduated school I worked for a small circuit board repair company, left there and went to Garmin, left there and went to Allied Signal/Honeywell, left there and worked for SBC/AT+T for 25 years and retired at age 64.

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This is unique? I could rattle off, I had my first job at 12. I had to take a loan out for college, my first job was $35,000 in 2007 out of grad school which doesn't pay for a house blah blah blah. Had a housing crisis, a crash, an economy for two working parents and excessive child and healthcare costs, etc. But I'm not rattling off these things because I think I'm owed something special. it's to hopefully put it into perspective that your individual experience is irrelevant. People have it better and worse than me or you.

But there is a problem to solve, and a hit to take and with all of the good that Boomers had and leveraged the future against, it would be best if they took the hit. It would be right. It would be noble.

But it won't be Boomers. It's not in their blood, they've never proven to leave a better world for those after them. Just debt and brokenness.

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Let me say that again.. they were forced to pay into social security for 50 years. Again, forced.

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They were forced to pay all the taxes they paid.

So what?

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No. The younger generations have been handed everything. They just don’t want to work and sacrifice for it.

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There it is...

Yet another typical Boomer response

"We are leaving you a perfect Utopia of Economic and Domestic prosperity. We are amazing, you just don't want to work."

Typical Boomer ideology. Like clockwork.

My favorite Boomer responses:

1. "We had to work for everything we got and you didn't. Uphill Both ways."
2. "We made no bad decisions for society or economy. We are the perfect Human organizers. The best the world has ever seen. Bow to our political perfection. we left no problems in the world. Only utopia."
3. "You should be glad to support us with your tax dollars for everything we have done for you. Bow to us."

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You were handed a mostly well-structured economy, a one income-based economy with a good housing market. Wasn't outsourced, didn't have the complexity of such dominant social programs, etc.

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Again, I don't know what age people think Boomers are.

Boomers were born between 1946 and 1964.

So the oldest Boomers would barely have been 21 when the biggest addition to the already robust social welfare programs that had been in place for 30 years were added (Medicare and Medicaid) in the mid-60s.

They would have been around 24 when women flooded the workforce, solidifying the two income lifestyle. They would have been slightly older than that during Carter's Stagflation.

The youngest Boomers would have been in their early 20s when interest rates were sky high in the 80s. Those in the middle of the range would have been around 30 years old trying to buy a house at 18% interest on their mortgage.

Like I posted earlier, the wake of destruction that the Boomers left behind is the cultural rot that they popularized. Feminism, hedonism, post-modernism, etc.

But the timeline just doesn't work for the narrative of "The Boomers had it all."

The Silent Generation was the generation that had the house with two cars and one income, great housing market, etc. But they had that after the oldest ones grew up during the depression and WWII.

There's no magic generation who "had it all" and squandered it.

Crickets!!!

And get rid of deadbeats getting disability and children’s benefits. Those kids didn’t pay in to SS. Why should they get benefits? Thats not what it was designed for. Pull that money out of welfare or some other government budget.

And foreigners shouldn’t get SS payments. This was set up for US citizens. Pull that money out of welfare too, or cut that expenditure out completely.

Your generation is in charge now, whippersnapper, so “Chop chop.” Snap to it! Y’all need to straighten this out so I can get my check! yall are in charge now, so the blame going forward lies at y’all’s feet!

They can cancel SS AFTER they give me every dime plus interest i paid in for for over 45 years

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All of the choices Boomers made while they were the dominant generation were to enrich themselves in that moment, without any thought given to the future. That is true. (But Boomers do think they built some kind of utopia for all other generations, it's hilarious)

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You’re full of shite. Boomers didn’t spend their working years “enriching” ourselves. We were fricking supporting the kids (that we love) through their early years, paid for their college fees that weren’t covered by scholarships, allowed them to move back home when the well-paying jobs weren’t there and they couldn’t afford to live on their own into their 30s. My youngest (of four) is wrapping up her sophomore year at college and yes, I am paying for that with two more years to go.

I have spent my so-called “boomer enrichment” on the next couple of generations, so eff off.