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Aw gee ! What a (censored) shame !

Damn greedy old grandparents won't just quietly jump off a cliff, or commit hara kiri ,or something - taking care,of course, to leave their ill-gotten wealth to their children.

What's that you say ?

They don't HAVE any great wealth ??

They spent most of it on their children and grandchildren???

Humph ! Guess they were STUPID, too !!!

That's an extremely stupid post considering:

1)Your family is YOUR business.
2)If someone spent money up on you, that's THEIR mistake. No one told them to spend themselves out of their retirement to satisfy you.
3)Most people did not spend that much money on their kids. I have never gotten a new car for graduation or my birthday.
4)Besides the fact that not everyone was that much of an "expense" no one is telling old people to die. But why do they think they are entitled to other peoples money?
5)The "elderly" are the richest class in America. They aren't starving or dying.
6)You're an idiot
7)These are not people you are related to. If they had a program that took from you and put into an individual account that paid DIRECTLY for your own parents, then you'd have a point. But the government wastes the money on a huge bureaucracy and a labyrinth of agencies and regs and entitlements.
8)When did FR become home to socialists?

"Damn greedy old grandparents won't just quietly jump off a cliff, or commit hara kiri ,or something - taking care,of course, to leave their ill-gotten wealth to their children.
"What's that you say ?
They don't HAVE any great wealth ??
They spent most of it on their children and grandchildren???
Humph ! Guess they were STUPID, too !!!"

Thanks for the post! Every time I write a check for $1,000 to one of my grandkids ('Granny, could you spare for a car?'), or float another "loan" (which is never paid back) to another grandchild (college DOES get expensive these days), I only hope and pray that one of these days they won't make a crack about how their grandma is 'taking advantage' of them! Their parents (my kids)...they're working like crazy and saving so they will have enough to retire on. Anyone who wants to call us so-called "rich" baby boomers 'selfish, self-centered, etc.' better watch their mouths around me! My home is very modest, my car is an older (bought used) model, and my spending habits spare. Extra ALWAYS goes to the needy in our community, our church, and an occasional stranger...if they look like they need help. I am neither a moron nor stupid, and I have been blessed because I have been frugal with money and invested it well.