[PISANO]

Sadly the BB’s were, spoiled, pampered, protected, and given everything by the Greatest Generation and with their [BB’s] aging SHAME and self-reliance slowly but surely vanished into history.

[chris_bdba]

Just who did they ask? I am not a whinner but a realist. If one lives their life never thinking of tomorrow and tomorrow comes....I know that we probably won’t be able to retire until long past when my parents did because the cost of living always goes up and a fixed income doesn’t. I’m a late boomer though born the night of the first Kennedy Nixon debate. :)

[riverdawg]

The BB’s made massive transfers to their parents and grandparents through payroll taxes paid into Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. Maybe these transfers were deserving, as payment for the sacrifices of the earlier generations, but they did occur. Most BB’s (those born after about 1950) will be net losers in the intergenerational transfer ponzi scheme known as Social Security.