We can do this peacefully this time or have a bitter struggle to the death. I'm good either way.
While I admire him for pointing out the elephant in the living room, it’s futile thinking that this DISASTER around the corner will be handled in an adult manner.
...after all, half of the geezers on this site are all for cutting spending, as long as THEIR precious Social Security is not touched. And these are otherwise conservative people. For the rest of the country, it’s more like 95% of the people.
...so it’s over...all but the economic crash. Hopefully we’ll keep enough military capability around so we don’t get messed with, but even that’s in doubt each day Obama stays in office.
Bummer, I have kids.
Economic crash? Folks are getting rich on the market while they bleed your kids dry.
Rich I tells ya!
First of all, stop calling your elders, “geezers”.
Second of all, your link in your sig does not work.
Carry on.
my husband has worked and paid in for over 45 yrs NOW and I about 36 years....
what is wrong with expecting to have SS fairly distributed to us????
we are not the problem...
the problems is that we have given disability out like candy, allowed illegals and fresh immigrants to jump in and receive payments, and foremost, the govt has taken horrendous "care" of the money all of us have "contributed"
my hubby lost one pension to the corporate raider mentality, approved by federal judges so NO, we won't sit back idly and let another pension get stolen...
not sure what to do about it however...
Bob....rage against the machine...seriously..
...we must have positive outlooks and work for positive change..
..how can we look ourselves in the mirror if don't???
We can do this peacefully this time or have a bitter struggle to the death. I'm good either way.
We knew when we were in college that “we were more likely to see a UFO than a Social Security check” in our lifetimes. That was FORTY years ago. Anyone who knew that and hasn’t prepared has only themselves to blame.
-——half of the geezers on this site are all for cutting spending-——
Us geezers don’t plan on having our SS cut. The revisions that will provide other means than pure SS for those younger will provide the necessary cuts.
They don’t want it handled...they are betting on a disaster it is the only way to finish the complete transformation of America.
BTW...you hit it on the head. The kids are screwed and this has happened on our watch.