Only problem is that you didn't pay as much as we will pay. I can't remember the numbers but something like six or seven of you guys paided into the system for every retired person.
On the other hand the workers in a few years will on be one or two paying for the retired person.
40 Boomers supported one retiree. 3 Gen Xers will support one Boomer butt.
Let me put it this way. If you have 40 strong, healthy adults in a room and you have some guy jump off the stage, into the crowd, the crowd could pass a 200 pound man around like a rag-doll. Nobody would even break a sweat. Now have the same 200 pound man jump into a group of three people. If they didn't just step back ( out of a sense of self-preservation) and let him "splat", if they even tried to carry him to the other side of the room, they would be quite stressed by the burden.
This is what the Boomers are giving us. They cannot understand because they didn't have the same math to deal with.