I mean, Good Lord, why should I have to provide for my own retirement when there are prolly literally dozens of gen x'ers like you who are able-bodied, thrifty, and have many years of tax-paying to look forward to.
As an American educated in the public schools and as a graduate of a State University, I can assure you I was taught the government would take care of me. I think Lincoln said it best....
"A house divided against itself cannot stand."
I believe this government cannot endure a few empolyed and many retired.
I do not expect the Union to be dissolved -- I do not expect the house to fall -- but I do expect it will cease to be divided.
It will become all one thing or all the other.
Either the opponents of confiscatory taxes, will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction; or us baby-boomer retirees will push it forward, till it shall become alike lawful for all times that y’all will have to work harder and longer, at two jobs, so we can enjoy our leisure...
Yet now, I notice, there are more and more individuals like yourself who appear out of nowhere whining and complaining about your nest egg being jeopardised by my leisure years. Why didn't you just provide us unappreciated Baby-Boomers a link to the Jack Kevorkian Suicide Machine?
Why are you gen x'ers so selfish? You know, it takes a village of taxpayers to keep me wined & dined and content and I am starting to get a little off-put by your "me me me" attitude.
Wow! And I thought I knew how to push people's buttons!
You guys are pros!
:-)
Every thread of this type is loaded with vitriol from the Gen X bunch. I've paid maximum limits on social security and other related a taxes for 20 years and pretty close to max for 30 years. Every dime was disbursed to pay OTHER people.
I turn 50 at the end of August. I fully expect to work for another 20 years. I would be bored to tears in a retired state.
Bookmarked.