[Marie]

HUH? It won't go "two ways" for us either! It will be broke before we get to collect 1% of what we've paid in. And incidentally...we managed to raise you kids and PAY all the bills, too.

And we'll pay all the bills, provide for our children's education, pay for our own retirement and make Mom comfortable in her old age directly out of pocket. What's really neat is that many of my generation are staying home with the kids to give them the stable childhood that we were denied, so we get to do all of the above on one income.

The Boomers will have SS. They'll guarantee it just by sheer numbers. (Younger Boomers may be sucking hind teet, though.)

[Howlin]

What's really neat is that many of my generation are staying home with the kids to give them the stable childhood that we were denied, so we get to do all of the above on one income.

Are you under the impression that that is an original concept to YOUR generation?

[Billthedrill]

And we'll pay all the bills, provide for our children's education, pay for our own retirement and make Mom comfortable in her old age directly out of pocket.

And you know what? Just like the Boomers, you're going to become your parents, and discover that everybody has it tough, and mostly it's tough in exactly the same ways and it has been since we were all wearing bearskins.