My father’s dead, thank you very much. Dead and buried.
No, I was complaining about the costs of the entitlements and the pork and the public pensions that I am paying for.
I don’t believe it’s right to ask young workers to pay for pensions, while at the same time cutting them out of the deal in order to try to preserve the program’s solvency.
That’s a classic ponzi scheme, where you don’t have enough money to keep it going so you pay off the upper level folks and scram. Meanwhile were left to foot the bill. At least with most scams, you can avoid them, but we can’t avoid the mess that is coming up.
I agree with you totally about that. My point was that your generation will have an even greater expense than the entitlements if you try to keep all of us boomers alive up to the very last moment and provide medical care for all of us.
If I get to the point of not really knowing who I am, sitting in a wheel chair all day and having someone change my diapers, I don't want you to bear the expense of keeping me alive. I want a painless death. I want society to come to terms with euthanasia for those who consent to it.
As I said in an earlier post, you will be confronted with one of these 3 choices when you have millions of baby boomers in their 80'and 90's:
1. Pay for expensive medical care to keep them alive and in less pain. This probably means higher taxes for the next generation.
2. Let them just lay there and suffer.
3. Do what we do for a pet that we love when it comes to the end of it's life and is in pain and doesn't have much longer to live.
You can pick one of these, or suggest a 4th possibility.