THE AARP DECLARES WAR ON YOUNGER AMERICANS

Nealz Nuze ^ | December 7, 2004 | Neal Boortz

[SaltyJoe]

I can see that Divine Judgment will work on this one. Older Americans still drunk on FDR socialist programs will be forced to work into their elderly years. The gov't just won't have the money to pay for anybody's retirement.

Loophole laws will help younger workers avoid taxes (laws brought about by the middle-aged middle class that are awake and ticked off).

I'm happy to tell my parents generation to get back to work. After all, it was that generation that didn't breed enough children to pay for their retirement. As much as I honor my mom and dad, I just can't afford to let them sit on their butt. And if abortion continues, it will be the hardened and heartless younger generations that will snuff out the seniors through legitimized euthanasia laws...the way Europeans kill off their own senior citizens.

[CSM]

You chose the field of work to earn your way. Now you want to defend a socialist program on a conservative board. In America, we should be responsible for our own lives, that means we live with the choices we make.......

[SaltyJoe]

You might be aged and kindly in spirit. I doubt your words will have any effect on callous hearts taught to murder unborn children and have under-aged sex. Most of this is taught and/or encouraged in the very same schools of those ÿyou've spoken about.

Teachers would have better served themselves to demand discipline in the classroom as well as demand free market laws for education. A free market education would have placed higher value for those individuals who can teach effectively as compared to those who are mediocre babysitters.

If today's and yesterday's teachers wind up losing their retirement as well as not having much demand for their lackluster teaching careers (per the fruits of the labor...our poorly educated children), then that would be justice.

If you're a worthy teaching that can effectively impart knowledge to others then you'll always have a job. My sister is an effective teacher. Before she became a full time mom, schools sought her as well as individuals for private tutoring. I wish more teachers were like that. It seems that the majority are a bunch of union thugs holding our American youth under the threat of ignorance.

Why would there be little to no sympathy for the retired seniors? Probably because the idea of "retiring" for the majority is still a very novel concept for mankind. Throughout most of history and still most of the world, people work right up until the moment they die. Now that I think of it, I don't even recall our Savior promising earthly retirement to His Apostles. Try to image Jesus saying, "Hey guy, you work hard and the last years of your life you can just collect checks until you die." That just doesn't make sense to me, and it shouldn't make sense to anyone else. "Retirement", as we are forced to invest into in America, is a lie.

[BureaucratusMaximus]

Hit 'em all under RICO and lets see if we can get out country back.

Shut up, go to work and pay your taxes peasant! Millions receiving governemnt entitlements are depending on you!

BTW...don't feel too bad...I figure around the time I retire...the retiring age will be 75 or 80; so I got 45-50 more years of working...if we're all not in Chinese prison camps by then, or euthanized on behalf of the common good.

Life is good!

[wtc911]

So you spent a career helping bring US reading and math scores to all time low rankings and contributing your dues to a union that is, in my opinion, criminally complicit with the democrats in the continued under-education of Black America...how altruistic.

[BureaucratusMaximus]

We taught and helped people all of our working lives for the lowest pay scales in the country.

And that was your choice...cry me a river. If you wanted better...you should have got into a better paying field...typical liberal victimhood here. I'm not buying it. Lucky for you...millions have been duped by liberal educators like you who numb childrens minds on the concepts of personal responsibility, truth and consequence, communication, mathematics, history (the real, unwatered down version of it) just so we can all feel good, do what we want, and have what we want with no strings attached. I guess that's a win for your side...feel proud of it.

Oh...and don't respond to me with some diatribe about charity and compassion either. Charity is voluntary...and begins at home. Someone in my family starts on rough times...I'll help them out if I can...thats why they're family. Government entitlements are not charity...they are a form of stealing...of redistributing wealth...under the barrel of a gun (try to get away with not paying your taxes and see what happens). Take your liberalspeak back to DU....or educate yourself on what freedom is and what a constitutional republic is.

[wtc911]

I'd like to see a group of older wiser Americans that were not self centered. I'm over 50 and won't join with the greedy geezers.

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[T.Smith]

"Anyone who belongs to AARP is supporting this cause, and many other liberal causes"

I keep telling my parents that, but, they just mumble about the discounts and ignore me. That really irritates me because my dad claims to be staunch, small government, conservative. Can't put his money where his mouth is, I guess.

[Balding_Eagle]

Thanks for reminding your Dad what he's doing.

I've been getting AARP stuff in the mail for some years already. They start sending it when you reach a certain age, it was a bit startling to realize I'd gotten old!

I've never joined. A lot of people have sacrificed a lot more than I have for our country. I've never served in the military for example. So NOT joining AARP is just a very, very small way of helping protect the next generations.

If you're Dad served, I'd sure cut him some slack on this, He's given far more than many of us, and he deserves our thanks.

[T.Smith]

He served 23 years in the Air Force, actually. Retired as a Captain. Still, I sent him Neal Boortz's article on this and I'll continue to remind him that the AARP is hostile to his conservative principles.

My mom has nothing to mitigate her dues, though!

[Reaganghost]

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[AVNevis]

Excuse me for being ignorant, but what happens to the money that people have already "invested" to the government in Social Security? I like this idea of private investments but I can't get my head round what you are going to do about the people that have already retired. Do they get refunded all of the money that they payed over the years?

[ken21]

thanks.

[sarasmom]

Already retired people are untouched. No changes.
Close to retired people are untouched.
People like myself, late 40s are screwed.Such is life.
In my case, late forties, I'm fine with the cutoff date being my birthday.
Social Security, as it stands now is an evil I refuse to silently allow our government to foist as a burden on my child's future.
I consider the price of her generations economic freedom, and a return to expecting government to do only what is their stated function in the constitution, worth the sunk costs I have already paid.
Major changes and an eventual end to this ruinous socialist policy is mandatory.
End it NOW!

[AVNevis]

Yes, but where is the money going to come from to pay for the current retirees if the young people don't pay into the system?

[cherry]

"Extend the wage base for taxes so that achievement-oriented Americans"

hope you're not saying that the people that make higher wages are somehow better than the rest of us, because I would place the importance of my work next to anyone's on the planet...

its not my fault that our culture would rather pay more to plumbers and New York City garbage men, let alone the loading dock folk....

[sarasmom]

Bonds?
Why should I care?

[LibertarianInExile]

Which means it's not going to be fixed.

My only answer so far: work outside the U.S. as much as you can and don't pay in, if you can help it.

[VRW Conspirator]

Social Security is running out of money.

But this is the current rate of decline opf Social Security. What is not mentioned and is probably not factored in is the astronomical increase in Medicare expenditure. This implosion will make the social security implosion look very weak. Now when you combine the two...well you get the picture.

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