[DManA]

People are coming at this from fascinating angles. Should have had this conversation 20 years ago.

[G.Mason]

"Should have had this conversation 20 years ago."

You may have missed it, but this has been going on , and "spoken" about for much more than twenty years.

It has been spoken of as the "third rail of politics".

Seeing the quality of Congress, do you wonder why it has been avoided?

What the hell, that "dummy" Ross Perot explained that to the world, and in very elementary language. ;)

[monday]

"Should have had this conversation 20 years ago."

They have. None of this is new.

Politicians CANNOT keep their hands out of the taxpayers pockets. That is not new either, and unfortunately it will never change.

People our age should probably start thinking about what we need to do to preserve our assets once the government goes into confiscation mode to pay for all the baby boomers in retirement. I am looking into career opportunities elsewhere.

[Mudboy Slim]

"Should have had this conversation 20 years ago."

Should have had this conversation 60 years ago, before Social Security was ever voted into law. Fact is, it's been a Ponzi scheme from Day One, with each successive generation expected to pay fer the retirement of the previous generation, then arbitrarily selecting the age of 65 for folks to no longer be productive members of society. It's time we began to fix this structurally-flawed system.

FReegards...MUD