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I like number #2.
You just may need it if SS bankrupts the U.S. treasury. What is your political solution for the future of SS. I think that we will have to do one or more of the following:
1. Raise taxes
2. Cut benefits
3. Raise the retirement age
Unfortunately, we will probably do all three and it will still go bust. I find it very frustrating that I pay such a high SS tax while at the same time Nancy Pelosi is telling me that I’ll be lucky to get 60-70% back. Not only that but people on this board are saying that it’s not their problem, but if we try to adjust their S.S. welfare, they will get their guns or even worse – VOTE THEMSELVES MORE MONEY.
Alexander Tytler warned in the eighteenth century, "a democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves money from the public treasury. From that moment on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most money from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy followed by dictatorship."
It’s already happening with the minority population; the democrats are offering them access to the public treasury for votes. Now the boomers are going to pound the final nail in the coffin and vote themselves more money or as the baby boomers say "It's just what society owes us".
Holtz
JeffersonRepublic.com
Point I'm trying so desperately, so desperately to make is that the verdict does not lie at "waaahhhh whose fault is this... It's the boomers, it's Gen X, it's the Great Generation". That is patently the stupidest argument I have ever read on this otherwise brilliant board. The stupidest. Ignorant. Non Productive. That WON'T work.
I believe that we can go to publicly authored options. I have no problem with raising the retirement age. I have no problem with limiting the amount of benefit you receive if you are a kabillionmillionaire. I mean, come on, Spielberg. I do, however, have a problem after a lifetime of work and dedication to my party being beotch-slapped in the face by some punk jerk-off poster who's disrespecting and broad brushing an entire group of people as leftwing liberal world destroyers and threatening, even in a joking manner, to put me out of my mercy at a predestined age. He'd better come early, pack his lunch and be well armed. Better watch out for the dogs. And I ain't voting him a retirement neither.
I'm plan on being one mean old granny. And I don't think I'm going to be lonely.