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I think you're just angry and want to blame someone

Of course he is/they are. This thread is full of wonderful irony. All the newer generation who resent the "entitlement" label and are trashing the boomer generation, are mad because they think they somehow have been getting screwed out of something they are **gasp** entitled to!

All the newer generation who resent the "entitlement" label and are trashing the boomer generation, are mad because they think they somehow have been getting screwed out of something they are **gasp** entitled to!

I don't feel entitled to Social Security. I'm actually not even interested in receiving it. I just don't want to be forced to keep paying for it.

"I think you're just angry and want to blame someone." Of course he is/they are. This thread is full of wonderful irony. All the newer generation who resent the "entitlement" label and are trashing the boomer generation, are mad because they think they somehow have been getting screwed out of something they are **gasp** entitled to!"

Not EVERY boomer deserves scorn--there are plenty on this board that deserve credit for doing their best to change this redistributionism when they could. But I'm not about to say it's the majority and I'm not about to agree that Gen X has an entitlement mentality toward Social Security, when I don't know a single Gen Xer who believes they'll ever see a Social Security check, let alone believes they're 'entitled' to one. We'll see who screams loudest when the checks don't come in. I bet it won't be Gen X or the Millenials who are bitching about being entitled.

Respect used to be something elders deserved for their wisdom and hard work for their progeny. I see that now it's something some of you feel generationally **gasp** entitled to, without any reason for it.

We're talking about being entitled to unencumbered wages/salaries/incomes. Where over 10% of our federal taxes will go toward paying interest on the national debt, and baby boomer politicians dare not even discuss debt reduction, rather they move toward inflation, further lowering the real buying power of our salaries.

From the CBO 2002(Prior to the Medicare Rx plan introduction)

We're going to by hampered our entire working lifetimes of mandatory outlays for Medicare and Social Security that will be greater than discretionary income, we wil see our infrastructure slowly crumble as the previous generation uses its large numbers as a voting bloc to maintain their subsidies, and no politician willing to faceoff against the AARP.

To top it all off, when we are nearing retirement, we'll be outnumbered by younger generations because of immigration, limitingour voting power to maintain the status quo for our own retirement and medical security.

While each American is responsible for his/her own outcome, in many ways we will be trapped inside a rigged system if we want to strive for the illustrious American dream.

Even saying this, I presume most Freepers will strive and succeed, but along the way we'll be paying for the long term negative savings rate amongst the baby boomer generation and our own generation.

think they somehow have been getting screwed out of something they are **gasp** entitled to!

Yeah, it's called income. *I'm* entitled to *my* income. Me, not a bunch of geezers who decided before I was even born that they didn't have to save for retirement because, hey!, they could just get the government to take *my* money from me and give it to them. But I don't blame the boomers as much as I blame the geezers who *started* this welfare state. I mean really, the boomers haven't even started retiring yet and we're already trillions in debt thanks to SS. How could that be the boomers fault or the fault of younger folks? It's not. It will be their fault however once they start living off the taxpayers just like their parents and grandparents have been doing for all these years. Really, I resent *anyone* who thinks he has a right to live off the fruits of someone else's labor. And without even an ouce of shame? *That's* what's really pathetic about this entire mess.

What? 15% of my wages? Damn right I'm entitled to them - I earned them after all.