Overall, the selfishness of me first FDRers and foolishness have brought them into conflict with cold reality and the system's Boomer's fiscal drains on our treasury that cannot be sustained.
We shall be fighting this permanent war against Pan-Islam and ChiComs/Retro-Soviets regardless of whether retirees want to or not. We ought to be spending not less than 15% on Defense and force families to pay for their own elders or out of the elders' own pockets. Those refusing to save for their frail years are fools, poor fools.
Should we pay for drug benefits and bloated socialist vote-buying programs or defend our once sovereign, ratified Constitutional Republic and retaliate against Mo'ham's nuking city after city while ChiComs conquor Asia for oil and trade? Shall the several million killed, maimed, and displaced by islamo-nukes be paid millions like the WTC victims? Gran, forget your free meds and hospitalization...
Yep. The "greatest generation" gave us a splintered shaft good and hard. The damned entitlement scams are so upside down it's ridiculous. Hey, why are the baby boomers a problem, hasn't that same huge group been paying in for the last half century? Doesn't matter. Ponzi scheme. Pre-she-ate it commies, we'll take it from here.
"Overall, the selfishness of me first FDRers and foolishness have brought them into conflict with cold reality"
I find it difficult to call the people who suffered as children through the Great Depression and then sacrificed their young adulthood to defeat the Axis powers, only to then have to fight in Korea and endure a Cold War for almost the rest of their lives "selfish me first FDRers".
Every decision they made in the thick of economic and military battle was not perfect, but these people suffered, sacrificed, and then sacrificed some more. Indeed, they sacrificed their own comfort and well being to bring us up to age, most of us, either as our parents or grandparents.
That they looked towards a day when they were aged that they would finally be able to set down the load and let their children and grandchildren bear them, as they bore us, does not seem selfish. Indeed, it seems selfish to me to want to deny them that. We have more than they ever dreamt of, and the reason we have it is because of them.
Social Security and Medicare Drug Benefits are the least we can do. We just need to reorient the economy and our other expenditures and efforts to be able to take care of these people.
Otherwise it's us who are the whiny, selfish brats.
They EARNED it, by giving us a world to live in.
I don't much fancy speaking German.
I'd expect there are others who don't fancy ending up in the soapdish.
These "selfish" FDRers are the reason I don't and they're not.