[qam1]

The jest of it for those who don't like excerpts

This guy claims that the younger generations (in this case the late Baby Boomers & Gen-x) are too spoiled and being tricked by the media, so we don't appriciate all these wonderful federal government programs that we are being forced to pay for.

[SF Republican]

it's for a generation with little or no memory of what came before how can you have a memory of something that happened before you were born?

[qam1]

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[BenLurkin]

" Social Security, Medicare...federal wage and hours laws, a federally underwritten welfare program...environmental protection, affirmative action, banking and security regulation, consumer protection "

Good news if the next generation is willing to pull the plug on these kind of unconstitutional programs.

[dynachrome]

"The jest of it..."
You might have meant "the gist of it", but the jest will be on those who depend on the gubmint to take care of them from the cradle to the grave.

[WestVirginiaRebel]

The generation that had everything handed to them wants the next generation to keep paying for their gravy train? I'll pass, thanks.

[sergeantdave]

Dump social security now. End it today. No more payments.

When you hit age 65, the socialist federal government sends you a check for every penny you paid in. Then you get no more, not a cent. Invest it, go to las vegas, give it away to your favorite charity. It's yours.

How to pay for it? Sell the socialist federal forests. There's 193 million acres the feds have no business owning. Sell the trees first and then the land, as needed. Year after year until everyone who paid into the ponzi scam is paid off.

[hispanarepublicana]

According to several polls and studies, says AARP's policy director John Rother, many adult Americans younger than 50 have little regard for the federal government and almost no knowledge about its most basic social programs, Social Security and Medicare.

I resemble that remark!!! Awesome!

[Lord Basil]

"They are busy with their own lives, and they rarely speak to their parents about their finances to learn how they depend on these programs," Rother told me. "They don't think about these things until they're 64. But they ought to, or these benefits could disappear."

When my grandmother (now deceased) would bring up her SS check (her memory was failing), I told her to think about it in terms of my paying for about half to a third of her check. She was stunned to hear that it was just a legalized Ponzi scheme.

I couched it in terms of money that I could use for my retirement savings being stolen to pay for her retirement because the government spent all her SS payments instead of investing them properly.

I also told her that I'd rather give her the money directly because none would be wasted on bureaucracy before it got to her.

According to several polls and studies, says AARP's policy director John Rother, many adult Americans younger than 50 have little regard for the federal government...

Gee, I wonder why we do?

[elkfersupper]

many adult Americans younger than 50 have little regard for the federal government and almost no knowledge about its most basic social programs, Social Security and Medicare.

Just when you think the situation is hopeless, along comes a little ray of light.........

[GOP_1900AD]

The irony is, that it is the Boomer generation who will wipe out Social Security, and who are already flexing their political muscles in that regard. That is yet another thing this year's election was about - it was a preemptive first strike by those who are getting ready to raid the pantry during their elder years.

So, the quasi Communistic FDR generation guy who wrote this article is completely deluded.

[Obie Wan]

The thing that pisses me off about people like Saul Friedman is their arrogant attitude that everybody before the pre-boomer generation were great patriots who appreciated every little thing they got and didn't need Jesus Christ because they never committed a sin in their lives.This is bull,the roaring twenties had plenty of over the top "spoiled" people who lived fast lives and cared as little as lot a lot of people today do.Yes they fought WWII but before Pearl Harbor didn't want to touch it with a ten foot pole,and by the way unlike the ALL VOLUNTEER military of today a lot of those people went ONLY when they were drafted.Our society is becoming increasingly liberal but there are a lot decent Americans still living in this country !!!

[LongElegantLegs]

I wonder why my generation doesn't have a snappy little name? Boomers, X-ers...I want a name and a stereotype, dammit.

[JasonC]

"...or these benefits could disappear"

Good. We don't want them you stupid gits. You can have your silly handouts, but we aren't going to follow in your slimy footsteps. We are free men not slaves.

[KoRn]

I'm much much younger than one of these "kids" as they describe. I wish I could opt out of social security entirely. Hell, I would even be willing to 'eat' what I've paid in so far just to be rid of it!

[familyop]

Older baby boomers recently cheated younger baby boomers in legislation on social security. Hippie-minded people get what they want from the government. Many younger baby boomers without university degrees were put out of work during the late 1970s and early 1980s. Not many older ones were.

As for government social programs, most of them are now for breaking families and feeding anti-social efforts (feminism, romanticism,...) instead of feeding the poor--another legacy of older baby boomers.

Younger baby boomers did not lead or often participate in the "cultural revolution" (family busting). Older ones did.

[NRA2BFree]

what it was like in a country that was truly at war to save democracy.

Does he mean, like we are now? Because we ARE at war to save our democracy. The fighting just hasn't broken out yet.

[weegee]

Trillions have been spent on the War on Poverty alone. Call it a draw and stop robbing the American public to redistribute "wealth".

There is no reason that programs like Social Security HAVE to be permanent. Especially now that telethons are held anytime there is a national tragedy. No more need for catastrophic insurance.

[redpoll]

"...They are our grown children, most of whom have not known privation, economic depression, a world without television or what it was like in a country that was truly at war to save democracy... "

This writer is what my father used to call a "poor stupid b***tard." We're are involved in a war right now to save not only democracy but the core values of the Western civilization. So perhaps "an awareness of history and the outside world" might want to be included on this writer's list.

[traviskicks]

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[zeugma]

"They don't think about these things until they're 64. But they ought to, or these benefits could disappear."

We can only hope.