Amen, brother! I am so tired of this boomer bashing. It’s all BS. Boomers working now are paying for all the greedy geezers currently getting the benefits. Boomers have paid more into Social Insecurity and Medicare than anyone, and they will receive nothing for it. Politicians are soon going to change the elgibility age for SS benefits to 106 and Medicare will consist of a bureaucrat standing on your air hose. These ponzi schemes should never have been started, and now they are collapsing under their own weight. To blame boomers for this is a load of dung.
Look at AARP if you want to see a real problem. Their motto ought to be, “Give us what we want now, and to hell with the future!”
YEP...what YOU said! Most Boomers have worked and paid into the “system” for 40+ years......it was the “Boomers” who helped vote in Reagan.....and... this country has had a 20 year economic boom.....fixing SS is a political problem, NOT a Boomer problem....as Boomers my husband and I do not look at SS as a major source of life funding.....we’ve planned our life that way.
Problem is, the only people with the power to fix the situation are the boomers. They seem unwilling to do it, at least the ones with D’s after their names, and many of the ones with R’s.
It was LBJ that sent the entire thing into the ditch. EVERYTHING got funded out of SS - Welfare, entitlements, etc. Nixon did a number on it too, by borrowing $11BB from SS that was never repaid to get us out of Viet Nam.
It was this big bucket of cash just SITTING there, and it became too tempting to leave alone.
The Great Society was anything but. Roosevelt got it going, but it took LBJ to really screw it up.
Politicians are soon going to change the elgibility age for SS benefits to 106
If they do it will not effect the boomers. You guys are way to strong a voting block to have that happen. Now us X’ers...