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To: PGR88
It was their parents (or in some cases their grandparents) who voted for these systems to be set up. The oldest boomer would be 69 today which means they could not vote until 1963.

The Social Security Act was signed into law by President Roosevelt on August 14, 1935

Medicare was signed into law in 1965 which means it was winding is way through Congress for several years before that ... by people who were voted into office much earlier than 1963 when the oldest boomer could vote.

The largest chunk of Boomers are not even retirement age yet. The media has successfully convinced people that Boomers are all older retired people. The vast majority of Boomers are still under age 65!

100 posted on 02/07/2016 9:55:19 AM PST by Lorianne
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To: Lorianne

The Boomers generation did not start until 1945. You had to be 21 to vote back then. Boomers could not vote until 1966, not 1963.

Social Security, Unemployment “Insurance,” Head Start, The GI Bill, Food Stamps, farm subsidies, Medicare, and all manner of social programs began LONG before the first Boomers took their first breaths on Earth.


106 posted on 02/07/2016 10:04:40 AM PST by SoCal Pubbie
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To: Lorianne

Actually, if you wee born in 1945, you were a War Baby, like one of my brothers. The Baby Boom didn’t start until 1946, so Boomer couldn’t vote until 1967.


115 posted on 02/07/2016 10:10:00 AM PST by SoCal Pubbie
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