[ETERNAL WARMING]

"greedy geezers"

THere's your first problem. That's repugnant. There is nothing "greedy" about people who have paid into SS Trust Fund all their working lives wanting their benefits as promised.

This isn't Welfare. This is money that was extorted from our paychecks and was to be there for our retirement. The rotten politicians from JFK to the present STOLE the trillions that have been paid in. Those "greedy geezers" are the victims, not the problem.

Until you realize that, you just don't have an argument they'll want to hear.

I support the 4% provided they give the rest of us the 4% we've already paid in.

Your anger should be addressed to the CROOKS in our government...there should be many trillions in that account but instead there's NOTHING.

That includes this present administration. Where's that "lockbox" that they keep campaigning on??? That money should be put into an account that our Greedy Politicians can't touch.

If it had been, there would be ZERO shortage...in fact, there should be surplus trillions.

As for there being no money..I would suggest that instead of Bush giving every single third world hellhole our money, they repay their own citizens back first.

If we can afford 15 million to pay the Palestinians electric bills, we can certainly pay back our seniors.

[newsworthy]

Hear, hear. If the corrupt system is on the verge of collapse, one cannot whitewash the problem by blaming the victims of government thievery and accusing them of greediness. To argue that it was "never intended as social insurance" is silly b/c it was presented to the public in just those terms---not as an income tax. My father has made enforced contributions to the system for forty, grueling years. His expectation of a meager payback for those contributions is hardly greedy.

BTW, am I the only one who objects to the use of the disparaging term "geezer" in a headline? It's one thing for a person to use the term laughingly to describe himself, but to categorize a group that way is offensive.

[Area51]

THere's your first problem. That's repugnant. There is nothing "greedy" about people who have paid into SS Trust Fund all their working lives wanting their benefits as promised.

This isn't Welfare. This is money that was extorted from our paychecks and was to be there for our retirement. The rotten politicians from JFK to the present STOLE the trillions that have been paid in. Those "greedy geezers" are the victims, not the problem.

Until you realize that, you just don't have an argument they'll want to hear.

I support the 4% provided they give the rest of us the 4% we've already paid in.

Your anger should be addressed to the CROOKS in our government...there should be many trillions in that account but instead there's NOTHING.

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You couldn't be wronger! :) First these greedy geezers want FREE STUFF. Free perscriptions, free medical, INCREASED COLAS. They are the RICHEST generation alive yet we subsidise their lifestyles at something like 12 to 1 Compared to the kids in this country.

Blame the politicians? WTF elected them? IT wasn't me. These people were electing Crooks that were stealing from MY WALLET before I was ever old enough to work and promising the masses free stuff.

As far as JOrge Delano Bush's great give aways. I agree completely.