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How much do burger flippers have? e.g. bottom 20% of workers
Too bad your "link" has no click.
Did you notice the generous benefits for government retirees?
The biggest source of retirement income for Americans has been Social Security. Many older Americans (age 65 or older) rely entirely on their monthly Social Security checks.
That's fine, but it isn't time for boomers to step aside and forfeit the benefits just so the program can continue for someone else who hasn't paid in.
Burger flipper boomers cannot afford to step aside and forfeit the benefits they forcibly paid into for decades.
Lol, where's that rolling around on the floor, laughing smiley?
So let me get this straight...Social Security was just another tax on workers?
Sorry, you'll have to think of another way to fund all of these illegals flooding the border.
social security was just another tax on the people. if is wasn't, then the money would have stayed in the social security trust fund and not put into the general fund by the democrats.
then the money would be at least worth something more than just pieces of paper with IOU's written on them.
That's fine, but it isn't time for boomers to step aside and forfeit the benefits just so the program can continue for someone else who hasn't paid in.
Who is this person who hasn't paid in? I've paid in for 20 years. I'll pay in for another 25 or so before I start collecting. By the time I start collecting though, it will probably not be there, so I'll be caught holding the bag. Why is that ok? But the thought of boomers being the ones caught is ridiculous?
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Who is this person who hasn't paid in? I've paid in for 20 years. I'll pay in for another 25 or so before I start collecting. By the time I start collecting though, it will probably not be there, so I'll be caught holding the bag. Why is that ok? But the thought of boomers being the ones caught is ridiculous?
Twenty years? Assuming you went to work at 18 when you graduated high school that would make you pushing 40. And your still whining about Social Security, Boomers, and "old people?" Dude... your fixing to get a big ole wake up call in about 10 years. Bless your heart........
Who is this person who hasn't paid in? I've paid in for 20 years. I'll pay in for another 25 or so before I start collecting. By the time I start collecting though, it will probably not be there, so I'll be caught holding the bag. Why is that ok? But the thought of boomers being the ones caught is ridiculous?
Unless you guys don't reproduce (which might happen with your generation's proclivity for on line girlfriends you never meet but promise to marry) Social Security will be around in some form.
What you are ignoring is that today's workers pay for today's retirees. And, as mentioned, the Baby Boom generation will be the first to pay in more than they receive (at least in the aggregate).
The people you should blame for any crisis are would be the WW II generation and to an extent the Silent Generation. They were the ones who paid in far less than they received and expanded the program to include more recipients than just retirees.
I think we can all agree that Boomers had it better than any generation of Americans. They had access to the best job market, lowest house prices, best opportunities for higher education at the lowest prices, etc. They didn't do anything to deserve the privilege they got, but they didn't ask for it either. They were just fortunate.
To those whom much has been given much is expected, and I expect more from the Boomers than what we've currently gotten. At this moment in time, they have the opportunity to do something truly magnanimous. They should give up Social Security. They should lead the charge to pass a bill that anyone born between the years of 1945 and 1965 should not get paid any Social Security benefits. This would save the program for their children and grandchildren, and for once, they wouldn't be acting like a swarm of locusts laying waste to America's wealth before it can be enjoyed by future generations.
I also think conservatives who hate big government should also choose to not get their benefits as a protest regardless of when they were born.
What do you think? Good idea?
If you paid into it you should get it. Regardless of whether we need a reform.
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