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The Unsexy Truth About Millennials: They’re Poor
Daily Beast ^ | 05 August 2016 | Samantha Allen

Posted on 08/15/2016 11:06:57 AM PDT by Lorianne

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To: WilliamCooper1; Fido969

Mr. Millennial: Fido969 is talking like a fool. The war is not between boomers and millennials. There’s no war between native born Americans who don’t hate America. You’re right - a revolution is needed. Some of us boomers have had a terrible foreboding for most of our lives (for myself, since at least 1975). Find the few of us (I guess) who are still fighting and not just fat and corrupt and happy. We actually can pass on some good information to you. Thanks!


121 posted on 08/15/2016 12:37:16 PM PDT by old-ager
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To: William Tell
I predict that if ss is taken away, there will be a lot of people leaving this country to move to cheaper countries, and just stop paying their fed income tax. That is my plan.
When I become too old and disabled, and requiring medical care, I will return to the good ol USA,they can give me free medical care, 3 hots and a cot in a low security prison for fed tax evasion. By that time, i wont care.
122 posted on 08/15/2016 12:38:32 PM PDT by kaila
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To: kaila

When my husband and I I paid about $500,000 combined into social security, you better believe that I am not going to roll over and say that the government can keep it. No way, Jose. That is the liberal viewpoint, not the conservative.

There is nothing for the government to keep or to give you. Every penny was either already paid out or stolen. The question is whether any majority of adults will choose to accept that fact and move on or will we continue the charade and borrow against our kid’s future to keep the checks rolling for a few more years.


123 posted on 08/15/2016 12:38:47 PM PDT by dangerdoc ((this space for rent))
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To: polymuser; WilliamCooper1

WilliamCooper1 doesn’t sound like a socialist to me. Why are all you old farts beating up on him? He wants a revolution. Who would not agree with him?


124 posted on 08/15/2016 12:39:10 PM PDT by old-ager
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To: WilliamCooper1

WE paid for SS Son, secondly, I am 64 and have no Medicare, have been to the doctor 10 times in my life. By the way, I also have a RECORD, and am employed as a Mechnical Engineer making more money than ever...heh heh. Most of the Hi-Tech conveniences you have are thanks to BBrs and ME! heh heh


125 posted on 08/15/2016 12:43:31 PM PDT by hawg-farmer - FR..October 1998 (MECCA and Medina, the SNAKE HEAD..)
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To: WilliamCooper1

I joined the Marines in 1969 at the age of 17. How about YOU, where did YOU serve?


126 posted on 08/15/2016 12:46:12 PM PDT by hawg-farmer - FR..October 1998 (MECCA and Medina, the SNAKE HEAD..)
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To: stillfree?

“William, Social Security has $300,000 of my money FRiend.”

SS has none of your money, it was either stolen or spent as quick as you sent it in.


127 posted on 08/15/2016 12:46:54 PM PDT by dangerdoc ((this space for rent))
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To: angcat

500 out of 120 million. Impressive.


128 posted on 08/15/2016 12:47:58 PM PDT by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016)
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To: hawg-farmer - FR..October 1998; WilliamCooper1

Sir - the SS we have paid is being spent RIGHT NOW on people older than us, people our own age, immigrants, criminals, fake disabled people, and a few truly disabled people. Nothing is saved for us.

If you retired right now, money WilliamCooper1 pays is going to you. Not to him.

That’s the shit system we have. If I were WilliamCooper1, whose siblings, statistically, were aborted, I would not want to pay for you, or me, either.


129 posted on 08/15/2016 12:48:28 PM PDT by old-ager
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To: WilliamCooper1

Strawman


130 posted on 08/15/2016 12:48:35 PM PDT by hawg-farmer - FR..October 1998 (MECCA and Medina, the SNAKE HEAD..)
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To: ConservativeWarrior

“I stand by the point that graduating with a useful degree is the cure to most millennials’ woes.”

And I totally agree with that statement. A good degree is never worthless. It might not be as valuable as it once was, or maybe it didn’t teach as much as it used to, but it is still the best career investment next to a good work ethic (which also lends well to college).


131 posted on 08/15/2016 12:50:57 PM PDT by CodeToad (Islam should be banned and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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To: ilovesarah2012

I doubt is William has a degree let alone a job, no Logic, no Critical Thinking skills, no understanding of History, just a crybaby..


132 posted on 08/15/2016 12:51:30 PM PDT by hawg-farmer - FR..October 1998 (MECCA and Medina, the SNAKE HEAD..)
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To: dangerdoc; WilliamCooper1

correct. We aren’t far from ONE millennial with an actual job paying for ONE retiree. It won’t work.

The millennials, through no choice of their own, had their siblings (who would have been native Americans paying taxes, not islamists and other degenerates stealing and murdering) aborted and were grossly miseducated. They got a shit deal while boomers got fat, bought 2nd and 3rd homes, and voted for socialists.


133 posted on 08/15/2016 12:51:34 PM PDT by old-ager
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To: hawg-farmer - FR..October 1998

you’re acting like a shithead to pick an argument with another American. Fight the common enemy with WilliamCooper1


134 posted on 08/15/2016 12:52:38 PM PDT by old-ager
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To: kaila
kaila said: "... leaving this country to move to cheaper countries, ..."

Where would that be?

Are you suggesting that you have dollars that would buy more someplace else? I remember reading about some recipients of Social Security living happily in Poland.

I hope you are and remain in good health. I was until March of 2014. Then I developed pneumonia, had a minor heart attack, was given up for dead in the ICU, had a quadruple bypass, and cancer surgery.

Had I been in some other country in March of 2014 I think I would already be gone. I would not expect to find the kind of emergency and diagnostic care I got anywhere else on earth.

135 posted on 08/15/2016 12:53:09 PM PDT by William Tell
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To: WilliamCooper1

Good comment Mr. Millennial. You are showing decent critical thinking and debating skills. Keep it up!


136 posted on 08/15/2016 12:53:39 PM PDT by old-ager
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To: WilliamCooper1

I served as a congressional staffer...hehe there is your problem, you should have learned a trade or taken hard sciences, you make it sound like it is someone elses’ fault you are not successful, Liberal M.O.


137 posted on 08/15/2016 12:54:57 PM PDT by hawg-farmer - FR..October 1998 (MECCA and Medina, the SNAKE HEAD..)
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To: William Tell; WilliamCooper1

How are they paying it if they’re making 30K or less? They’re not


138 posted on 08/15/2016 12:55:46 PM PDT by atc23 (The Confederacy was the single greatest conservative resistance to federal authority ever)
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To: hawg-farmer - FR..October 1998

Our generation bears much more responsibility for the crap education and loss of siblings and cousins that millennials endure than they do. You and I don’t bear it, but our fellow bastard leftist idiot boomers do, and we didn’t stop them.


139 posted on 08/15/2016 12:57:03 PM PDT by old-ager
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To: William Tell
The Philippines is one example.
If the government stops ss, what do you think they are going to do with Medicare? Do you think they will pay for your ICU care, or cancer care?
I work in a healthcare job. What I see everyday is the hard earned Medicare tax money being given to 20 -50 year olds who have no right to be on Medicare. Medicare has expanded so greatly, that it is going to be bankrupt before we reach 65.
When I see this absolute waste of taxpayer money going to drug abusers and scammers, I have no sympathy for the ss is going broke meme.
140 posted on 08/15/2016 12:59:36 PM PDT by kaila
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