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I think they should just end social security now and let us all take care of our own retirement arrangements. I plan to do what my grandfather and father did --- keep working, never retire. I think it would be interesting though if they saved social security by giving baby boomers money in exchange for a growing lien on their homes --- you'd see the Gen Y generation then go up in arms about their inheritance being take away from them.

Fitz, you're making too much sense today. This thread is another in a vast litany of generational warfare threads.

Yes, I'm a boomer who is not thrilled that the first Boomer president.

However, I was one of those that served in the post Vietnam Army (76-84), and helped elect Ronald Reagan, and thus brought an end to the Cold War. I guess one could say that was a good thing, unless you're a communist or socialist.

I admire and adore my parents for what they did, and overlook the welfare state that they created. As for those born after the Boomer years, I love the passion of the arguments that they bring, despite their sheer igorance of world history (seems like half of America has completely forgotten about 9/11).

Before I get riled up too much, suffice it to say that these threads never generate much more than methane gas of the bandwidth variety.