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I am getting into some heated arguments with the geezers lately.

But they always seem to quiet down a lot when I say “Hey don’t get upset when I refuse to pay for things you voted yourselves years ago- you had no business voting yourselves my money then, and now it is bankrupting the country”

This sometimes quiets the “we’re entitled” mindset.

(Freeper geezers excluded)

I sometimes get into this same argument even with FReepers.

The standard line is “Hey, I paid into Social Security and Medicare all throughout my working years and so denying me the promised payout now is tantamount to theft.”

Folks need to understand that our unfunded entitlement programs, combined with our national debt, are theft by those collecting today from those working tomorrow.

Hey don’t get upset when I refuse to pay for things you voted yourselves years ago ...
Unfair representation of the "geezers." They never voted directly for SS, Medicare, Medcaid just like they never voted for the VN war, the Great Society, etc.
What is true is that all that crap was "forced" on them by a Democrat majority government. Granted they voted them into office, but they were also sold a huge bill of goods (i.e. pie in the sky BS), that they believed.
And if you stop and think about it, those "geezers" back then had lived through the Depression, WWII, etc., and thought those programs would make their old age a little more secure and comfortable. Can you blame them? Both my "geezer" parents and "geezer" in-laws are gone now (three of the four were WWII vets), and those programs worked for them exactly as advertised.
What isn't emphasized enough is: 1) how the Libs have bastardized the entitlement programs so much that they're little more than welfare; 2) inclusion of millions of illegal aliens; 3) how the gov't has wasted TRILLIONS on crap like NASA, Dept of Education, Dept of Energy, foreign aid, etc.
It was those "geezers" who survived the Depression, saved the world from Fascism, and made life for their children relative heaven on earth in the greatest country the world has ever known.