I’ve had this same argument with conservative boomers on this site. They call themselves conservatives, but any mentioning of lowering or making any changes to social security and they will go ballistic. They’ve paid into the system for 50 years, so they want theirs.
Well, we’re going to pay into the system 40 or 50 years and we’re not going to get a dang thing.
That makes them selfish and certainly NOT conservative. And I’m going to remind of them of that at every turn.
Really hate to bother you guys with the facts since you obviously have the world figured out, but -
Every year that a baby boomer turns 65, some number of boomers also DIE. And one day, the number of baby boomers turning 65 will be smaller than the number dying. But that won’t matter to you. No, your life will be getting worse and worse.
You see, while you’ve been running around crying about baby boomers, the real criminals were making off with your future.
If you’d like to get smarter, start here and download the .pdf mentioned.
Just in case you are too lazy, here’s a few tidbits:
“Under President Obama, government will spend more on welfare in a single year than President George W. Bush spent on the war in Iraq during his entire presidency. According to the Congressional Research Service, the cost of the Iraq war through the end of the Bush Administration was around $622 billion. By contrast, annual federal and state means-tested welfare spending will reach $888 billion in FY 2010. Federal welfare spending alone will equal $697 billion in that year.”
“Whereas Social Security and Medicare appear as two succinct line items in the federal budget1 and defense
spending appears on one line, federal welfare spending is spread through 13 government departments and agencies,
17 budget functions, and 71 separate programs. Spending levels for many programs can be discovered only
by data mining the annual 1,300-page budget appendix produced by the Office of Management and Budget
(OMB).2 Means-tested welfare also includes billions of dollars in mandatory state government contributions to
federal welfare programs. This spending never appears in any federal budget document. Because of this, the large
cost of aid to the poor is largely invisible to the press, decision makers, and the public.”
While you run your mouths off about people wanting get back what they paid into a system, the people that have never paid a dam dime into anything will be the cancer that eats you alive.
Enjoy your future.
Why is it selfish to want to keep what you earn, but it isn’t selfish to take someone else’s money away from them?
Real simple. Can you get a better ROI by keeping your money? Yes. Then there’s no need to pass it though the federal government so that they can pay for overhead on your dime.