[thoughtomator]

Social Security isn't the only program with which the elder generations have been using to rape the younger one. Also, were a boomer to suggest to me that they've been paying into it longer and therefore they somehow have more of a claim to be a judge of the system ignores the fact that the boomers are the last generation that can expect to receive a dime from it. Big deal, they paid in more. They will get something back for what they paid. Those of us who come afterwards will get absolutely nothing.

The boomers support the subsidies to seniors only because they expect to cash in on it themselves. So the boomers have in fact been stealing the money of the generations after them already, in order to pay for their own parents' retirement, when historically this is their responsibility and not their childrens'. For some strange reason the boomers are the only generation that assumes no responsibility to support their parents in their old age.

[pogo101]

Social Security isn't the only program with which the elder generations have been using to rape the younger one.

I am entirely in sympathy with you. My preferred metaphor (to "rape") is that of vampirism. And eventually we become vampires ourselves ...

[Siamese Princess]

The boomers support the subsidies to seniors only because they expect to cash in on it themselves. So the boomers have in fact been stealing the money of the generations after them already, in order to pay for their own parents' retirement, when historically this is their responsibility and not their childrens'. For some strange reason the boomers are the only generation that assumes no responsibility to support their parents in their old age.

That's the welfare state in a nutshell -- avoiding responsibility for yourself and your own.