You - and the rest of your generation - voted for them.
Reap what you sow.
You - and the rest of your generation - voted for them.
Reap what you sow.
It was the so called “greatest generation” that set up this socialist trap for us to fall in to. We of course went along with it because it was “status quo”. As far as those that continue voting for the bankruptcy option that is part and parcel of their “love”, yes we bought into it by a solid majority. I blame the past generation, I blame our generation, and I hope the generation we spawned have enough sense to end it all with compassion and wisdom. As it is, we are all (*&^ed.
Rabby, may I gently point out that your blaming an entire generation for the situation that we're in, as you just did, is a fundamentally collectivist position?
the generation before us.... alot of them didn't even work yet collected for 30 yrs or more and some still are...
I pay high premiums for my husbands health insurance..several hundred dollars a month....and I get dinged to pay for medicare...
do not blame me nor my age group.....we played by the rules...we paid forever....
IF they had taken just a little away from retirees 30 yrs ago instead of going along like nothing was wrong, then we wouldn't be in this position...
we allow double dippers and triple dippers, people collecting disability for "stress" and bad backs..illegals enlisting their children because they are "hyper"....
Yep, it is the Congress who stole it.
The Baby Boomers have been paying into the program all their working lives.
And no, I didn't vote for them. I voted against every US Congressman and every US Senator other people voted for until this last time around (Yay! We won!--I think... the jury is still out, but so are the incumbents.), but I got stuck with the likes of Kent Comrade of Countrywide who has been running on "saving" Social Security and the family farm since there were a lot more family farms, and the people who were played for suckers bought it.
I’m not sure who’s most to blame.
I do know there is a mess to clean up.
I know it is our job to clean it up.
God Bless those in the House who have held firm, against all threats, against being called extreme, against name calling, threats of violence, etc.
God Bless them because they are soldiers fighting the good fight, in what appears to be an up-hill battle.
My sarge told us once after some guys were grumbling about politics: “it don’t matter who made the mess, its a mess, a fine mess.... but we’re here to clean it up” (or some such words)
That’s how I feel about the TEA party right now. Plenty of blame to go around, to both the Dems and Repubs. Neither one of them has proven they can work in the kitchen without making a helluva mess. So, as far as I’m concerned, they’ve lost that privilege. We’re here to clean up the mess. It won’t be easy, it won’t be pretty. Stiff upper lip and all that, assh*les and elbows and lets get to cleanin’. Belly achin’ about it aint gonna get it done, layin blame aint gonna get it done. We know what we have to do, and we’re doin it.
D’s and R’s go sit in the corner. The TEA party is here.
Alinsky Rule: Get the other side to in-fight while you clock them both from behind.
We got here because of the 48% of us that do not pay taxes, the millions on EBT, AFDC, SSI, WICs SCHIP, EITC, free Pre-K (glorified babysitting), Advance EITC payments, Pell Grants and on and on and on and on.
Last time I was at an SS office, it was full of foreigners and young fat people or girls with babies (sans dad) applying for SSI, SS for their immigrant parents and the like.
So, 20% is disability. You know, the disability those lawyers on TV are always saying they can get that disability you applied for and were denied [The Johnny Cochran Firm]. Additionally, my guess is that there's a good percentage of that 44 million getting SSI which the SS classifies as retirement benefits. There's yer truble, right there...
The birthrate was in free fall from 1958 to approximately 1969. Another case of forming facts to fit a phenomenon, that wasn't.We were doomed when we kicked God out of our schools in 1962.
Anyone who blames “the boomers” has not studied the issue and is just repeating things they heard by a media that wants all amwericans at each others throats so they can usher in the new world order.
Are baby boomers to blame for debt crisis?
NO. Allowing congress to spend the money in the SS lock box is the problem. The president that did that, I believe, was Bill (better put some ice on that) Clinton.
We got to where we are election by election. Just blaming one age group doesn’t make sense.
Dear Great Geanteration,
Social Security was a scam from the get-go. The “extra” money from the collection of SS tax was used by Congress to buy votes. period. Both Democrat and Republican Congresses ever since.
The leftists in the media did this to us by repeatedly lying to the American people. They are still doing so. People can only act on the information that they have, and they have been denied accurate information for decades.
What a load of tripe. The Democrat Congress and President are to blame for increasing spending by 5 trillion dollars. End of story.
Only a 25% cut? And that is worst case. If we would even try to get our spending under control now, and simply freeze Socialist Insecurity benefits at current levels, we wouldn't have to make any cuts.
75% of the future rates is still much, much better than crashing the economy.
I am a boomer.
I have a couple of decades to go before 65 so I’m not counting on Social Security. The retiring boomers are not to blame. IF the money had been saved and invested like the great and all powerful mamma-sow with ten thousand nipples of a government told us, more would be there for the retirees. But, like all good governments, our great nippular sow has, through the generations, helped itself to as much of that money as it wanted, and then some. The money should be there - but it isn’t.
I recall such luminaries as ‘Tip’ O’Neil, Claude ‘Red’ Pepper and multiple others who saw the benefit of raiding the public purse. The schemes were simple and numerous, this group wanted more supplemental Social Security, this group wanted more MedicAid and on it went. Each of them was able to trot a convincing case of needing more taxpayer money and each had the implicit promise of more votes to the party that gave them these ‘gifts’. Every entitlement started small but that is only at the start and now we look at this monster that cannot be cut without loud screams from all who are effected. Yes it was both Dem & GOP but remember History PLEASE, this structure was built at a time when the GOP had Presidents but Congress was RULED by the Dems.