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This Gen X-er has no intention of taking a beating, even if it means breaking the law or moving assets out of the country.

Ironically, the Boomers have left quite a legacy of pragmatic nihilism. When all is said and done, their own children will avoid "taking a beating" by euthanizing their parents.

Here we go again, pitting one generation against another. My many years of working supported the generation that went before me. Now that I am retired (as of Oct. 31st of last year), it sounds like some people want to change the rules so that I decrease so that they (the younger generation) increases.

Hey, I have no problem with improving the system -- but it kills me to hear the bellyaching of the Generation X Y and Z-ers who want to kill our benefits so they have more money to fly to Aruba. Sorry guys, people 50 and over will never allow it to happen. If you don't believe me....see me at the voting booth.

Ironically, the Boomers have left quite a legacy of pragmatic nihilism. When all is said and done, their own children will avoid "taking a beating" by euthanizing their parents.

By nihilism you mean aborting 40 million would be taxpayers? Being euthenized by those who "made it out alive" has a certain poetic justice to it.

I just got my Socalist Security report for the year, the pay out is about 10% of contributions for the last 42 years, I have paid the max for the last 36 years. If that went into an account paying the average interest rate during that period the benefit would have been 3x higher, low estimate.

"When all is said and done, their own children will avoid "taking a beating" by euthanizing their parents."

Interesting take on the generations.

The Boomer's wanted entitlements.

The X and Yers want to commit murder.

If that's true, I'd have to say it isn't the Boomers who are the 'worst generation' as some have said.

Ironically, the Boomers have left quite a legacy of pragmatic nihilism. When all is said and done, their own children will avoid "taking a beating" by euthanizing their parents.

Wow. Say it ain't so. Indeed, it is ironic that the boomers gave the X's abortion on-demand and a legacy of guilt, only to have their own offspring(survivors?) demand that the "geezers have got to go". Nay, it will not happen that way-by compound factors.

About 77 million boomers are due for retirement starting about 2008 (add 65 years to the year 1945 and subtract two for early retirement), peaking about 2015 and ending about 2025. Traditionally, the largest voting bloc is the senior citizens. The boomers will dominate the voting constituency with a vengeance. What ever they collectively want from the government, they will get. If the baby boomers decide to euthanize their own, that would be ironic.

Gen X, Y and Z are going to bow to their masters. If the boomers want to increase Social Security and Medicare benefits, they will get it. If they want their offspring to foot the bill, they will get it. If they want politicians to make excuses for them, they will get it. IMHO-FWIW.

Ironically, the Boomers have left quite a legacy of pragmatic nihilism. When all is said and done, their own children will avoid "taking a beating" by euthanizing their parents.

The Boomers have definitely gone out of their way to make themselves the most despised generation, and I fear what you've mentioned could become one possible "solution" because of that and the legacy of self-centered hedonism they've left us.

It won't happen to my ex-hippie Boomer parents, though. My siblings and I intend to take good care of them during their Golden Years. What can I say, my parents screwed up royally somewhere along the line and ended up with a brood of 6 God fearing, politically conservative, "black sheep of the family" kids. (Rebellion works both ways, you know. hehehe)