Posted on 06/27/2005 6:36:38 AM PDT by GPBurdell
Darn right. Loyalty is a two way street.
What you are not seeing is this: we won't be stepped on like our parents for our loyalty. If you treat us without the respect we feel we've earned, we'll go somewhere where our @$$ busting efforts will be appreciated. Respect is a two way street. Loyalty is not to be taken advantage of.
I'd rather have the 7% and let me invest it for myself - risks and all.
Okay, so according to your logic if all young people joined the armed forces the entitlement mentality would not exist among them.
And where do you think that'd leave the private sector of our economy in a few years, especially when the baby boomers join their parents "collecting" SS and Medicare off the backs of their own children and grandchildren?
Greedy geezers should STHU when it comes to any discussion of "entitlement mentality".
See post 40.
My Dad was laid off six months shy of being eligible for a company pension. This was back in the era when it took ten years to become vested in a company's pension plan. The bast**rds laid off my Dad after nine years, six months of service.
He filed a claim with the EEOC, but he lost at the hearing. The company claimed that they weren't just laying off "older workers", they were laying people off by projects. Those that worked for certain projects were eliminated, people of all ages.
Of course, if they wanted to get rid of someone, they banded them together in "Project ZZZ" and then that was their justification for a job massacre.
Young people, don't trust the big corporations. They'll use you up and spit you out. Wait till someone younger wants your job. Or someone's relatives. You may think you're riding high now. Wait till it comes your time to get knocked off the chart.
Exactly. That is why you always need a backup plan. Have some contacts so you can get another job quickly if you lose one.
You're paying 15.3%, the same as any self-employed person. On paper, your employer might be paying 7.65%, but that 7.65% is either cut from your potential pay or an increase in customers' prices (and the employer has more control over wages than over market prices).
Don't worry about your retirement years. When the boomers (regretfully, my generation) are finished destroying our economy, our freedom, and our culture, there won't be anything in this country left to retire from, or retire to.
"Baby boomers feel entitled to Social Security as-is, despite the certain knowledge that following generations not only won't get the same deal, but also that those same younger folks are being taxed for it on a blatantly fraudulent basis."
It's not very thoughtful of you to paint an entire group of millions with one brush. I'm 55 years old and have been working since I was 16 years old. I don't think I will ever get back what I paid in to SS. So who gets it? I would have been entirely happy not to participate in the Ponzi scheme. I didn't create SS and no one in my generation did.
I think you're just angry and want to blame someone.
The socialist geezers have no room to talk.
In following generations there is a huge outcry for reform of the SS system. The baby boomers, with their huge vote, are the guardians of the status quo. Even on here you can see the difference. One can't have the attitude of "I'm going to get mine and who cares about who follows" without accepting responsibility for it.
What industry are you in? These days, almost anyone can start their own company with virtually no capital, and most people with a capacity for hard work should.
Yes I cant agree more, the spoiled whining of the anti-Bush, anti-America bashers is so typical of the 60's generation. These folks are the apex of entitled and never had to compete for anything in society. These are the trust fund babies and limosine liberals that want to keep kids enslaved in government schools, while sending their lil angels to private academies...
Exactly.
I'm currently in Telecommunications (in a 'provisioning' position). I've been doing this type of work for about 6 or 7 years.. it's certainly not my main love in life.
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If there's an "entitlement generation", it ain't young people. It's people now receiving, or soon to receive, Social Security.
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