I guess past generations weren’t smart enough (/s) to demand as much stuff as today’s citizens do.
Makes me angry. They are doing everything they can to submarine SS.
When I was a teenager ——working part time-—Barry Goldwater’s book and None Dare Call It Treason and other conservative books gave me the idea to stop expecting the government to lead all of us by the hand into retirement. Lower our taxes and let us save into interest bearing accounts for retirement. Build the economy with the money.
No, they stole it, then “borrowed” every year from Soc.Sec. and repaid it in the next deficit budget. So “my” retirement money since my teens was not saved or held or invested-—it was spent while I supported the other elderly people.
I worked full time through age 71. Now citizens have to support me and others in our 70s and beyond with a system I never chose to have for the U.S. And new aliens and noncitizen and loafers who don’t feel like getting a job don’t want to pay toward my retirement.
In my stamp collection is a Cuban stamp showing a couple of grateful and delighted oldsters looking at a government retirement check together in Cuba. Just like America./s