Yeah, and just trying taking a penny from the "greatest" who have, by and large, collected far more than they ever paid in and a pol will find themselves on the street corner washing windshields for spare change.
Sorry, but my generation is the biggest bunch of "gimmes" to come along, at least most boomers believe more in flying saucers than they do in seeing any social security.
I wasn't aware that the greatest had saved anything at all but were entirely SS dependent, could you provide a source? I don't know where I saw it but the amount in boomer 401k, Roth's, IRA's, etc. seemed to be reasonably impressive.
I can't quote any numbers, either, but I keep hearing doom-and-gloom stock market scenarios about what is going to happen when boomers start to get older and move their vast riskier equity holdings into the much more conservative bond arena.