“...seniors have earned through a lifetime of hard work.”
Jefferson said each generation has the right to enter life free of debt; no generation has the right to force the following one to pay its debts (to do so is to make the living slaves to the dead).
Today’s “seniors” acquiesced in all the foolish spending
of the past decades—spending as if there was no tomorrow; now it is their moral duty to bear the burden and pay off those debts.
Ah, but you forget the meaning of democracy: three wolves and a lamb deciding what's for dinner.
Today's "seniors" will not vote to sell their own children and grandchildren as slaves, but they will vote to sell each other's children and grandchildren as slaves.
The Social Security Act, Medicare and (if you remember) Obamacare were not on a referendum for people to vote on. They were forced taxes that the US government guaranteed certain things. This isn't Enron, where certain individuals could be brought to justice. It is the freaking US government. We would have to prosecute every CongressCritter for the last 80 years for complicity. Acquiescence's wasn't the issue...people were forced into these programs.
Do I think SS and Medicare need to be reformed..I absolutely do. I hope they are in a way that is fair to all.
Do we need to pare the over bloated government in a way that they can keep their promises to our lenders and citizens? Yes. And that can be done by shutting down non-constitutional departments (DOE, EPA..etc). That could be done by term limits and the dissolution of pensions and special benefits. Put them all on the same “plan” we are on and maybe we will get a few statesmen...and not professional politicians.
Please quit blaming people that had no choice. Please look to the root of the problem.
Sorry Charlie. We seniors make up the largest voting bloc in the country - and we've just started.
I'm just messing with you of course. But the end game will not be pretty. Seniors and Boomers (and most Freepers are Boomers) will not give up their SS or Medicare. So it will all end at some point in a massive collapse. Yep. A meltdown.