[Marcella]

You are exactly right. There are securities in the trust fund (IOUs the govn. owes the trust fund) and they have moved them on and off budget, whichever it took to make the numbers look better.

The poster who started this should not have dumped on the elderly - he will be one himself one day and will suffer the ridicule of the young.

Sure, I'm old, likely older than anyone on this forum, but I see a change happening toward the elderly and it isn't a good one. People are angry because the elderly are getting their social security when they paid all their working lives. People are angry because the older one gets, the more medical care they need and that takes money and younger folks don't want the elderly to get that care because it costs Medicare money. (I seldom go to doctor, so I'm not costing the government money.)

This speaks of Hitler's method - killing the old, disabled, and mentally deficient. When will that be the norm? From what I see, I think by 2014, they start dying in more than normal numbers. It will become the norm. A nation that kills its babies, the elderly, the disabled, the mentally deficient, is a country without soul forever after.

[greeneyes]

All valid points. I see lots of similarities with the way Hitler was able to take power and scape goat people in order to implement his inhumane policies.

I am a baby boomer, and I get tired of being attacked too. When Reagan and Tip O’neil raised the retirement age, and increased the payroll taxes, I didn't complain and call the elderly greedy or call for them to loose their benefits nor did any one else I know.

Baby boomers I knew, were quite willing to pay that extra amount for their own retirement in addition to supporting the greatest generation retirees, so that boomer's children would not have to shoulder the burden.

I also get tired of the portrayal of boomers as drugged out hippies. That stuff was the East and West coast liberals. Weren't any of those types in the Missouri town where I grew up.