[Porterville]

Oh, working hard is bad? How about working smart and hard?.... are you a boomer?... I’m sorry.

[dragnet2]

They've come at the boomers with every tax imaginable in the past 30 years. Ironic, they call the boomers lazy, stupid, greedy, spoiled etc, yet my non-boomer parents bought their first home in about 1951, it was brand new for like $4,000. It was just no big deal in the 1950s. Mom never had to work, and good ol Dad and Mom raised our entire family on one income.. It was no big deal in the 1950s. We had two cars, TV, campers, vacations, great affordable health insurance etc. I remember Dad going to the gas station and saying, "gimmie a bucks worth or regular".

My folks first home is still there, and I'd bet if purchased today, the first 3 months of mortgage payments would equal what they paid for the home in 1951.

Remember LBJs Great Society, all his socialist programs? LBJ was born in the early 1900s.

LBJ was certainly no baby boomer. Fact is when LBJ was elected president, most boomers were about 10 years old.

And what about FDR, the guy who signed SS into law, among other socialist programs? FDR was no boomer. Wasn't he born in the late 1800s?

[wtc911]

Yep, I'm a boomer who retired at 50 from working smart (after a few years of working 'hard' for somebody else) and spent the past six years doing exactly what I want. We've put three through college with the fourth halfway there.

I expect to live a long time and I am delighted that there are youngsters like you spending your time working hard. When my first SS check shows up I'll toast to you with a glass DP.

Thanking you in advance, I remain....etc...