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"Boomers did not set up the social security scam, and our generation and the next will put more into that Ponzi scheme than any other."

Your generation didn't set it up, but your generation didn't scrap it, either... and, by virtue of having been a boom generation (lots of numbers to vote), you probably had the best chance to scrap it before it started wreaking major havoc in society.

I don't necessarily mean you personally - the conservative boomers (the kinds you find here, the kinds that turned to Republicans to vote for Reagan, etc.) are, I think, largely to thank for the fact that the US is not in the major social/economic/cultural/demographic mess Europe is in (you want to see nihilists and knee-jerk socialists, go meet some Continental gen Yers...).

But, I mean that the majority of boomers seems to have some sort of faith in socialist programs, or some sort of selfish interest in them* and that prevented them from fixing things that really badly needed to be fixed before they started retiring. (*Of course, the selfish interest was why FDR designed them the way they are, so there would be pressure from the majority not to scrap this particular socialist program.)

"I see the Xers, the Ysers and whoever follows as being the harbingers of euthanasia as a government institution."

Probably true, sadly... You should have seen the sick frenzy most of the (left-leaning) gen Y and Xers I knew got into about the Schaivo case, not even willing to hear about the "husband"'s adulterous and blatantly conflicting interest situation.

I'll fight it, and after, say about 5-10 years from now, our wages are docked to new heights to pay for boomers' obesity meds and Viagra and antidepressants, hopefully the spouse and I will still have enough to homeschool children such that they're of the mindset to fight it as well.