Anyone who's in their 40s or younger (such as myself) must simply conclude that Social Security will not be there when we reach retirement age (as distinct from retiring, which our erstwhile "parents" - those "wonderful" baby-boomers - have made well-nigh impossible), and that the monies we pay in as payroll taxes are nothing more than a species of general income tax revenues, and not part of some false, fraudulent, phony "social safety net" that will be there in our old age.
Quite frankly, by now we should be getting used to being played for sukkahs by our parents - it has long been apparent that the baby-boomer generation is one of the worst in history.
Agreed. I’m a Baby Boomer, and I say, “Cut ‘em off!” Simply shut down Social Security and all of that. You’ll have that chance after the big default. Just make sure that you abolish the anti-competition zoning laws against small manufacturing operations, so that rebuilding will be possible.
