I agree with your post #99...my hubby is actually a little older than most baby boomers, being born in 1943...but I was born in late 1945, so altho we are a little older than the 'official' baby boomers, still we consider ourselves within that generation...
My hubby just retired a few months ago...I retired several years ago...we are married for 36yrs...raised two fine boys, worked hard all our lives, never expected anything from anyone, never had an abortion, paid for our current house with cash, have a nice nest egg for our retirement, just bought big RV cash, have no bills, and guess what?...most of our friends of our age, also resemble us in this way...we are self supporting, hard working, good parents, and expect nothing from anyone for free...
And yes, ,I did have an idyllic childhood, with very little TV, and lots and lots of outdoor fun and activities, never did drugs(or even knew anyone who did drugs), and grew up with great love and great discipline, which hopefully we used as a role model to raise our own children...
My husband gave 28yrs of his life to serving in the military, and loved doing so...then he spent another 12 yrs working at the post office(yeah, thats right the post office, is there a dolt who wants to make a nasty post office worker comment?)...his retirements from the army and the post office added to my retirement from the nursing home where I worked for years, added to our savings, means that we dont have to rely on any SS pmts...so, what is everyones solution?...should we return our social security pmts?...I dont think so...we put into it all of our lives, and had we not been forced to pay into social security, we would have saved and invested it...and we do hope to recover some amt of what we paid into it...
And guess what...there are millions and millions of baby boomers who are in the same 'good' situation as we are...
If one baby boomer parents did a bad job on raising them, thats not my fault...its your own parents fault, and confront them on it...stop acting like all baby boomers, are the problem, because they are not...
When my dad, a WW11 navigator, fighting in the Pacific, told me to never count on Social security, but save for myself, I took that as gospel...my dad was a wise man...dad never thought social security would last to give him anything back...well, he was wrong, he did collect...I passed onto my sons the same wisdom from my dad...provide for yourself, count on no one else, and forget social security as a possibility...I never thought social security would last to pay me, or my husband, but again I was wrong..but my son does believe I am entirely correct, social security will never last to pay him anything...and he from his earliest days of working, began saving for his retirement...
So altho many baby boomers act like morons, that can be said of every generation...every single generation has its morons, and it also has those who are responsible...Labeling one whole generation of people, as being one way or another, is just plain stupid...
Well said! Thank you. Some of us also busted our a$$es sitting in missile silos, on alert, on submarines, in the air flying, in early warning stations, etc. 24 hours a day, seven days of the week so these whiny ungrateful twerps can blame us for all their problems.
You should take your SS payments and party, you and hubby earned it with them...that's what I'm going to do.
"And guess what...there are millions and millions of baby boomers who are in the same 'good' situation as we are..."
If that is the case, why are the boomers so resistant to SS reform?
In an earlier post I referenced Generations : The History of America's Future, 1584 to 2069 by Neil Howe, William Strauss . They think that the boomer generation mindset actually starts with those born in 1943.