My father, a wonderful man, a WWII vet, always said that he received more in SS & Medicare than he ever put in. He also said he wasn’t going to send the checks back, either, lol.
My baby boomer husband and I have been paying into these programs for over 40 years and have never been on food stamps, welfare, or medicaid.
In other words, there’s plenty of blame to spread around various generations.
My parents, in their 80’s, have raked in many, many times what they put into Medicare. Now early Baby Boomers are doing the same.
The money the Boomers paid in to SS over the past 40 years was used for their parents while the Boomers will probably see the money in SS run out in their own lifetime. At least we got something for the money we paid in and our parents were able to benefit from it.
freepers are so daft as a rule...God love them
do most even know the ages of the folks who really voted in the entitlements in the 1960s in Congress?
a fair amount were actually born in the very late 1800s or pre WWI and many were pre WWII generation...possibly a majority
there is blame to spread everywhere to be honest
what we have now are the first coming on line who actually have paid Medicare premiums their whole life and would-should-could get the benefit of that
one stat that the yutes here never like to self examine is that that under 35 kids today are markedly even more liberal than the same group in that detested hippie era
anyone can look up voting by age in 1972 and compare to 2008
that bodes even worse down the road
any generation tends to get more conservative with age overall..we can cross out fingers
Ditto for my wife and myself. We've paid maximum on SS for the last 35 years and have never taken a penny of government benefits. I really get tired of being tarred with the "baby boomer" label as a "taker" of government benefits when I've only been a producer and payer all my life.