It is not the boomer bankrupting us - it is the greedy senior citizens of the last 30 years that are.
They vote - and they vote for the politician that promises the most for them.
They vote in Florida and in their home state too.
this is absolutely true....
and while the WW2 generation did so much for our country, most people don't realize that tons of people collecting SS now were too young for WW2, and never made any of those sacrifices....
I guess I wonder about those that took advantage of our post WW2 boom years, took the best jobs, were able to finish college and come out with the war over, worked at all the big companies, got all their pension money even while the companies were bankrupting themselves with pension debt, and yet, still, collect, and collect and collect SS and get mad if you question the fairness of them making out like bandits, while the younger workers have lost pensions, medical retirement, and SS for all practical purposes...
all in one sentence.....whew.....
its really like that group of people hit the jackpot...no ww2, no bankrupt companies, no loss of pension and medical retirement, taking all their SS , and still get all the elderly "discounts" for everything going......
and apparently, a lot of them vote in all these nice things because we can't seem to break the hold of the senior citizen "give me more" attitude....
example...this cockamamie drug benefit...
Needless to say, this doesn't depict the life course of all the boomers who came to maturity in the 1960s. Beneath the hype and the rhetoric, millions of them managed to do things the old-fashioned way right up to the end of the 20th century: one spouse, one house, one neighborhood, one career.
There is a "silent majority" of baby boomers who didn't become hippies and spend all their time getting stoned and driving from protest to protest in a grimy psychedelic spray-painted VW minibus listening over and over again to an eight-track cassette of Buffalo Springfield. This silent majority is always given short shrift in the media and mocked by Hollyweird.
For example, according to B.G. Burkett, 3.3 million men served in the Vietnam theater of operations, and a scientific survey conducted in 1985 by the Washington Post/ABC found that 91% of those who served in Vietnam were "glad they served their country." There were a lot more people in the baby boomer generation who served their country than rolled around in the mud at Woodstock, and I'm sick and tired of hearing the endless navel-gazing by this latter group. "Me Me Me!" Will no one rid us of these troublesome aging lefty baby boomers?
I'm 62 -- I have paid into this system every year since I was 16 years old, forced to do so by law. And now the government dictates when and under what circumstances my OWN MONEY can be returned to me. And if I die before I enroll for social security, I can't even leave that money to my daughter.
The "greedy senior citizens" to whom you refer have been forced to become activists to get any of their own money back. Thought you might be interested in hearing the other side.
Carolyn
Maybe we should take away the right to vote at age 70.
the seniors are bankrupting us- because the boomers turned their backs on their parents and expected government to take care of them.
"It is not the boomer bankrupting us - it is the greedy senior citizens of the last 30 years that are.
They vote - and they vote for the politician that promises the most for them."
What this article describes is a socialist society. The parents of the Boomers gave us these socialist ideals with their Great Society.
I'm waiting for someone from "The Greatest Generation" to stand up and take responsibility for being such lousy parents.
The Baby Boomers learned these Faustian attitudes from their parents, you know, the ones who are the big-gov't lovers, the ones who want everyone else to take responsibility but deny any for themselves.