[Maigrey]

I already do and am, and I certainly resent being refered to as being lazy! I bust my @$$ working, which my taxes will support you in your retirement, since you are whining about paying in $300,000. Sorry you got screwed by the system, and you attempts to get out of it what you paid into it. I - and others of the Generation Reagan - will never see social security, simply because it will collapse by then. I've known from the time I started working that my 15% is money down the toilet.

And, for the record, I've voted in 4 elections now, and the only one I *slightly* regret is voting for Perot in '92, since it allowed x42 into the White House.

[patton]

Pardon me, but my point was the system will collapse - the day I am due to collect.

You think you will have paid in more?

Guess again - I got to start paying in 1974. Been paying 15% of my income ever since.

Please, give it back.

And stop whining about how you contributed 10 years, at your minimum-wage job.

I really have no more patience for it.

[freedumb2003]

I - and others of the Generation Reagan - will never see social security, simply because it will collapse by then

Late wave boomers won't see it either. I have been working since 1976 and won't see a dime of SSA -- SSA does NOT factor into my retirement planning. If it is still around, I will use it as a windfall to buy hats or something.

But the point of the article is that Entitlement Generation kids had that stupid "self esteem" thing going -- awards for everyone! -- and now have to actually prove themselves and they are collapsing.

If I have the chance, I will speed this along. I had to work a lot of crap jobs to get where I am -- it helped build my character. If these poo-buck kids hold their hands out to me they will get them slapped -- HARD.