Posted on 07/30/2011 10:32:57 PM PDT by rabscuttle385
15% of all the taxpayer federal revenue collected between 1946 and 1964 buys a lot of cake and ice cream
or it would, had it been invested in a trust fund to fund the national pension scheme ... what a novel idea
“The elephant in the room is abortion.”
You’re right; another gift from baby boomers.
No one ever includes Welfare, Food Stamps and Unemployment insurance extensions in the cuts. Wouldn't want to attack the "needy"! Pols are terrified of them. It is easy to pick on the supposedly well-off retirees.
Remember, the needy don't pay into the Welfare and Food Stamp system. The elderly have paid into SS and Medicare all of their lives.
I don’t believe any of the justices were boomers ...
We were doomed when we kicked God out of our schools in 1962.
Anyone who blames “the boomers” has not studied the issue and is just repeating things they heard by a media that wants all amwericans at each others throats so they can usher in the new world order.
It sends chills down my spine when I think of how we have sacrificed almost 60 million babies in the womb to Baal.
Many of the voters/supporters were; it was on their watch.
Generation Y is in the same position Europe’s younger people are in; do they throw away their standard of living to maitain their retirees’ standard of living (which they themselves will never enjoy), or do they euthanize them so they can attempt to have a decent standard of living?
Scary.
Thanks RFowdyFCC, you have just won the prize for putting him in his place.
I could not have come up with a better rebuttal.
Keep up the good work.
What a simplistic view you have. All of us consrvative folks who paid their taxes 9under penalty of law if we didn't) and who expect to have what was taken from us returned in small increments (as promised) afre at fault because we could have somehow changed it all.
Since you seem to be more recent to the scene and have been living under a more obviously broken system, I ask you a question: "What have you done to fix the system and how succesful have you been?"
I believe your "logic" is fear-driven because you feel the same helplessness tha so many do. At least the younger genration has an opportunity to plan for retirement with its eyes open - many of us made arrangements to make ends meet in our latter years and the rug is being yanked from under us.
Are baby boomers to blame for debt crisis?
NO. Allowing congress to spend the money in the SS lock box is the problem. The president that did that, I believe, was Bill (better put some ice on that) Clinton.
so far I don’t like any of the candidates that have thrown their hats in the ring, save Bachmann.
Me neither. I expect Sarah to kick off her run soon. I can vote for Saran or Bachmann. If neither are on the ticket, I’ll write in Palin.
If a good candidate is not on the ticket, we might as well let Obama be the cause of the second American revolution.
We got to where we are election by election. Just blaming one age group doesn’t make sense.
Dear Great Geanteration,
Social Security was a scam from the get-go. The “extra” money from the collection of SS tax was used by Congress to buy votes. period. Both Democrat and Republican Congresses ever since.
You can beat poverty. But you cannot beat sloth and greed.
The leftists in the media did this to us by repeatedly lying to the American people. They are still doing so. People can only act on the information that they have, and they have been denied accurate information for decades.
What a load of tripe. The Democrat Congress and President are to blame for increasing spending by 5 trillion dollars. End of story.
Only a 25% cut? And that is worst case. If we would even try to get our spending under control now, and simply freeze Socialist Insecurity benefits at current levels, we wouldn't have to make any cuts.
75% of the future rates is still much, much better than crashing the economy.
I am a boomer.
....Lets face it, when it comes to politics, its not the cream that rises to the top, its the scum....
Good point. We need a good skimmer to fix that problem.
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