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To: Unknowing
Come and take it.

Well that's the problem with an entitlements like social security. If enough people collect something they'll keep voting for more. Babyboomers will be a giant voting block. They won't just let the Gov't stop paying them. But hey don't blame us, we expanded the system our greatest generation parents left us. Except we used hearts instead of our heads. And now, with drug care, our heads will be drugged out all the time. That's OK, you Gen Xers can vote in free cosmetic surgery to repair the damage done by tattoos and flabby stretched out belly-button rings. You'll have to make your kids pay for it, of course. Except by that time there won't be any paychecks left... just a guaranteed job with the Gov't... ah sweet socialistic utopia.

112 posted on 09/07/2004 3:41:05 PM PDT by rhombus
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To: rhombus

"It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world." -- Thomas Jefferson

Baby Boomers may be a giant voting block, but the "Gen X" families shall not be reduced from penury to slavery, by political means or otherwise.

The FICA withholding scheme is the only assurance of Social Security funding for the Baby Boomers. Independent contractors, the self-employed, many professionals, and cash operators do not participate in FICA withholding. Many Gen X workers don't participate in FICA -- certainly not enough to fund the Baby Boomers at current levels of expectation.


115 posted on 09/07/2004 4:12:34 PM PDT by Unknowing (Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.)
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