People forget that we boomers have paid into SS our entire lives, and are the first generation to do so. Now they tell us we can collect full benefits at 67, not 65, and it will eventually be 70, nearly the death age age for a man.
Rich liberal baby boomers who inherited wealth are one thing. Middle class boomers who will work til the day they die are another. This is just another attempt to divide people, and libs are very good at that.
They are giving away our Social Security to loafers and mental patients. They have to blame it on somebody that isn't the Democrat voting base.
Absolutely.
Some Xers sound like Boomers did when we were just out of adolescence.
Though not at anywhere near the rate we currently enjoy (thank you Ronald Reagan, not). The Boomers have paid a much smaller average percentage of their income over their lives than GenX and younger. Hell, the tax rate has almost doubled in my lifetime and I am not even a Boomer.
When Boomers started working, the tax rate was a few percent. Geezer taxes are now on par with the most expensive State tax loads in the US, and the younger generations have no opportunity to slink into retirement anytime soon.
do I feel for the younger people?....yes I do....I don't belong to AARP because I hate the elderly lobby and the selfish demands they make...
but not being a govt worker or a worker in a huge company, I will need my SS....I won't be destitute without it, but it will make it easier....