Yo Dudster,
You go tell my buddies wife about life expectancies after he died of a sudden heart attack last year at the age of 53. I didn’t set up the program and I sure am going to take back all I put into it . The government cost me approx 1.5 milion that I could have acculumulated if I had the option to invest privately all those years . Don’t go blaming the shortfalls of SS on the Boomer generation . Blame the government who raped the monies in the fund for everything under the sun for the last 50 years.
BTW, I can’t even begin to get my $$ back for at least 1.5 years BUT I will think of you next week while I smoke a cigar on the beach at Luquillo, PR and The same in Costa Rica next March .
I don’t blame the Boomers for the shortfalls or the initial raiding of the funds to cover government programs.
The only thing we can blame everyone of voting age is not forcing the politicians to fix the problem and use “a commision” as their way to weasal out of doing their job.
Think of me in January. I’ll be at Fort Bliss training up a NG unit to get ready for their overseas deployment.