Gen X isn't mad at the Boomer generation for getting old. Gen X is mad at the Boomer generation for what they DIDN'T do for their children.
We were the first generation to be aborted. We were the first generation that people took pills to prevent (on a mass scale). We were the largest generation to be without stay-at-home mothers and we had more fatherless folks in our generation than any before. We were latch-key kids. Our mothers told us that we weren't as important as themselves. (Many, MANY Gen Xer's have heard their mom's say, "I'm not just a mother. I'm a person, too. I have needs. You're not the center of the Universe" as they watch their mom's walk out the door.) Our education was slip-shod and designed to set us up for failure. The Boomers cut our population on a massive scale, cut our labor force, then expect us to care for them with our reduced numbers. While we're in our most productive years our ability to set aside for our own retirement will be reduced due to the money being pumped into the SS sewer. Ans we *know* that we seriously need to save that money for ourselves because we've been told our entire lives that SS won't be there for us. Now the burden for OUR care will be on our children, but not on a group, on our individual families.
If the Boomers really wanted to help their children and grandchildren out they would stop calling SS a "right" and volunteer to help the situation. Any Boomer who has enough retirement to get by without SS needs to let it go. If a Boomer has a family member who is willing to take them in, they need to shift the burden as much to the family and off the system as they can. If a Boomer has the ability, mental acuity and strength to keep working, they should. They should raise the retirement age to 70 and only disabled should be able to collect SS before then. (There should be NO outrage on that last line as that is what us Xers have to do.)
Bingo. And it bears repeating. The boomers whiped my generation out by the MILLIONS and now that there aren't enough people to take care of them, they whine that they are going to have to work longer? Cry that the children are ungrateful? Pul-lease.
If the Boomers really wanted to help their children and grandchildren out they would stop calling SS a "right" and volunteer to help the situation.
Darlin, we don't have enough money left to "help the situation." As I said, we've paid and paid and paid. Many of us will never get to retire in the first place. If we don't have a "right" after paying in for 50 years, who does?