Posted on 12/30/2010 7:08:35 AM PST by SeekAndFind
The baby-boomers have been sucking off society for the last 60 years - why does anyone believe that “reform” of Soc. Sec. or medicare will be possible when this group becomes elderly?
No wonder Barry wants to kill them off with Obamacare.
Funny how they portray the boomers as a burden on the system? They never claimed them to be a burden while they swelled the US Treasury with their income, payroll, federal sales, excise, import, and parent’s death taxes.
I've paid into SS & Medicare since the 60s.
And paid the max SS tax for at least the last 30 yrs.
Throw in the astounding amounts I've paid in federal and state income and local property taxes (close to a million dollars) and I'll say that the sucking goes the other direction.
I am not sure how all this works out. I am in the late end of the “boomers.”
And here are a few life lessons I recall...
The 1980’s and the development of the 401K...because we were told that Social Security would not be there for us. I recall this so clearly because I had a literal fight with my democrat/union father in trying to explain it to him.
Markets crash and recover and crash etc. Even now the market isn’t bad...it might be bogus...but it is still higher than the 1980’s.
Listen when you hear rumblings of wealth confiscation. Plan for your wealth to be taken away from you. Odd way of saying it, but plan for your wealth to be taken away from you.
Right now I am creating my own business and planning for it to be the work I do ...until the day I die.
If this were still 1980 I might be planning a bit differently, but this is one ‘boomer’ who isn’t expecting a government handout from a regime that is already bankrupt.
Heck, in 10 years there might not even be a United States of America as we knew it.
I think a lot of boomers get it. A lot more than the media wants to give us credit for. It sure wasn’t lots of youngsters at those Tea Party Rallies I went too.
Or was your post in sarc?
Then I've never taken a single dime in unemployment or any kind of government assistance.
“The baby-boomers have been sucking off society for the last 60 years...”
They’ve been working and paying social security. I’d rather the government give me the money I’ve paid into it since I would do a better job with it.
I also wish I didn’t have to rely on Medicare, but I don’t have a choice. I had perfectly good insurance until I turned 65. Once you get social security and turn 65, you are on Medicare whether you want it or not.
There is one other thing the retiring boomers will leave; Their jobs will be left for others to move into.
It is important that we hate the rich, bankers, Wall Street, insurance companies, doctors, Sarah Palin, Tea Partiers, corporations, religion, special interests, and capitalism.
It is equally important that we embrace class warfare, and generational warfare.
Bottom line: we must turn against each other.
Thanks for doing your part.
The president sought to insulate the elderly from any bad effects.
Obama’s WAR ON SENIORS ammo list
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2613747/posts?page=3
Government assistance programs are not really assistance at all. They are carefully constructed vote buying schemes, designed to blind , bind, and buy you. The brain is replaced by a political guided focus group and a cooperative media because you still buy crap when it’s advertized during your daily uploads in front of the television.
Not so much, I'm afraid
The large manufacturing company that I and bunch of compadres retired from end of 2008 basically hasn't replaced anybody.
They're working the remaining troops like rented mules and record amounts of overtime.
Under the Baraqqi regime, employers are very reluctant to hire full time help.
I don't say this to blow my own horn, but to illustrate to you that you shouldn't generalize. I'd think that participating on FR, you would have more sense than that. Whippersnapper.
Ret. Military are forced onto Medicare too, with Tricare for Life being their supplemental. Both are admined out of the same agency. And make no mistakes Medicare is RATIONED health care, they tell you how many days in the hospital are covered should you get p’monia etc. Why do you think we see so many same day surgeries for what use to be at least 2 day stay? And all they want to pay for is generic meds, well all generic meds are NOT the same as the name brand.
....”In August 2009 Sarah Palin falsely claimed that government “death panels” would decide who received health care.”
That sentence ruined the credibility of the author.
....”In August 2009 Sarah Palin falsely claimed that government “death panels” would decide who received health care.”
That sentence ruined the credibility of the author.
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