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.
“Enjoy your future”
I hear that. Talking with some of my age-similar coworkers, I said that we may be the first older generation that DOESN’T wish we were “30 years younger”. I would not want to be just starting out now.
Our future? Let’s look at who brought us to that future.
Almost 70% of the Senate and House of Representatives are in their 50’s and 60’s.
And our last 3 presidents have all been baby boomers. So who took us to 17 trillion dollars in debt?
That’s right, the selfish generation.
Baby boomers have the power to change our future, but are unwilling to do so.