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Ok,

As I have said, I am screwed. Because of the tantrums of elderly adolescents, I will have to die working in order to fund the second childhood of many who should have known better.

So be it.

But if you (so God help) keep it up and demand food from my table that is going to feed my children to fund it, then there will be problems.

We are heading for a very interesting time. In the 1950’s, a great many people left the work force in order to make way for the Boomers. They did so in order to sacrifice for the new generation, a noble thing. Now we have people demanding that we sacrifice the new generations in order to fund their retirement.

How long will that work out? We have a generation of kids (actually adults in their 20’s) that have yet to be able to enter the work force. I have a job, many of them do not. How long do you think this game will go one?

I expect you honestly don’t care. You want your government benifit, because you were lied to and want it to be made good. I understand.

But the way society is going now, we have to stop be adolescents and be adults. I was promised a great many things, both spoken word and by contract. Reality hit, and those were not fulfilled. In the breach of contract case, there was literally nothing I could do short of suing which for a bankrupt company would have been futile (they had much greater issues than me).

That is the situation we are in. The US is bankrupt. We are hiring mercs (PMC’s) to fight our wars, police our streets, because the benefit packages are so high. We are cutting back on infrastructure projects because the money that should have gone there was looted for all sorts of things.

This is how civilizations die. If we don’t want to go away, we all are going to have to face pain.

Well the terms “generation of grasping seniors” and “tantrums of elderly adolescents” kinda makes it personal, at least to me. I can with the same few keystrokes paint government employees as deadheads and goldbricks who wouldn’t last ‘till the water got hot in the private sector. They’re not worth near what they’re paid, let alone deserving of their fat pensions and taxpayer funded medical plans.

See how easy that was?

As I noted upthread, I and other SS claimants gave up something of value (money) in exchange for a future payment. It is a legal claim and until the law is changed, has standing. Just like anyone else who works for government in any capacity. They give up labor in exchange for a paycheck.

As for the “needs of those who are working,” again I suggest you ask some of the other recipients of government money to belly up to the bar, instead of calling down Hell on SS claimants only.