Actually, today’s seniors are partially to blame. They continued to elect the people who promised to give them stuff. They chose not to pay attention to what was really going on.
If you’re a Republican, you saw one chance to change this in your lifetime. It occurred from January 2001 to December 2006.
The Democrats have controlled either the White House, or the House, or the Senate for every other year since the 1960s, probably way before that.
Blaming seniors for what they did or didn’t force our government to do, is hollow rhetoric.
We have had an illegal alien problem since the mid 1990s. Could all the demanding in the world get our leaders to even enforce the laws on the books? No.
Blaming seniors today regarding S.S., makes a much sense as blaming a Conservative citizen today for not getting illegal immigration under control.
Our government does whatever it pleases. Screw the rank and file.
“Actually, today’s seniors are partially to blame. They continued to elect the people who promised to give them stuff.”
Spot on. I wouldn’t say Seniors should get the biggest part of the blame, since they didn’t set the system up. Still, we are living in a country where the electorate helps shape policy, and this influential segment of the electorate is the one that is most responsible for blocking any sensible reforms.
They’re protecting their piece of the pie, but in doing so, they are effectively taking bread from the mouths of babes. I’m not swayed by their arguments that they “paid in” and are entitled to get their money back, since I’m forced to “pay in” as well, yet I’ll likely never see one thin dime of my money back. What makes them special?