I was 12 when Kennedy was assassinated. At the time, I marveled at how this man (actually a letch, as I later came to know) was portrayed as a King and the Kennedy's and wholesome Jackie/family was portrayed as a martyr's faithful wife. The social, moral, potitical and financial ills of this country began then in earnest. And, I've been a conservative all my life.
Two years later I went to work, finished high school, did 8 years of military time, went to college, and have been paying the maximum to SS since I don't remember when.
I've supported GGer's who put in cents on the dollar of what I and you have put in, and they lived to their 80s and 90s. Today, I filed for my Social Security at 62 and I'm damned well gonna take it.
The Xers can complain all they want. Had not this government been spending the SS fund as lotto winnings all these years, it would be in reasonable shape. The key to financial stability is starving the 'entitlement for no work' crowd and making them produce. Stop the government from spending money to buy votes and promote rabid foreign governments. It isn't in carping about other taxpaying, working citizens.
The Kennedy assassination really did seem to be a dividing line.
Following on its heels we had the Beatles, Gulf of Tonkin, Vietnam, Lyndon Johnson, Great Society, Civil Rights bills, riots in Watts, Newark, & Detroit, Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King murders, Nixon, Timothy Leary, Haight Ashbury, hippies, acid rock, pot, Moon landing, Woodstock, Charles Manson, Watergate. And then came the ultimate evil: Disco.