Please throw the Red Bull in the trash before typing things like the above...I have paid taxes since before you were born and not taken a single thing from YOUR generation. In fact, my generation made your generation possible. Not just from a reproductive standpoint but from any and every aspect that you can imagine.2crazy2carry wrote:TLE2 wrote:Your not paying for your own SS retirement, your paying for the generation before you. That's why after the WWII baby boomers retire, the funding gets a little thin.
What we need to do is bite the bullet (so to speak) and change the funding to "own generation". Right now I think there are about 4 workers paying for every retiree. When I retire that will be down to about 3 to 1.
A social security overhaul will be costly in the short term but will eliminate forever the cross generation funding problem.
Honestly as part of the newer generation that has to pay for all the barrowing the baby bommer and wwII generations did, I am tee'd off.
I think the only fair thing for the previous generation to do is PAY BACK THE FREAKING MONEY YOU TOOK FROM OUR GENERATION.....so pay your freaking taxes and stop being greedy and selfish with OUR future. I agree taxes suck and should be minimized but the offset is that you dont barrow against the future to make up for not paying enough taxes to pay for police and public services, when the money runs dry.
THe fact is the previous generations had their days of prosperity. Its time for the fairtale to come full cirle and for them to pay for the goodtimes the got. The previous generations seem to want to have great prosperity for free and at the cost to our generation........Then so many of them look around at others and call them lazy bums trying to get free handouts, whne the true is those entire generations profited and bought cars houses and boats off the promise of giving up the money our generation needs to sustain ourselves.
GIVE IT BACK....PAY UP YOUR TAXES SO OUR FUTURE CAN BE MORE SECURE.
EDIT: oh and then go vote for independent party candidates..no no the republican in sheeps clothing tea party...but true third party ppl. Stop voting for politicians that want to give money to the big compnaies that fund their campaigns...Thank you
The only thing that every generation takes from the succeeding one is the resources used by that generation. How we go about doing that is our legacy or lack of it. The generation before mine saddled us with Social Security. I was never given the option to opt out of it. If I had been, I am pretty sure that I would have.
Where the government really messed up (not counting inventing SS in the first place) was making it possible for the government to raid its till of monies at will. To the folks that make up our government (all generations), it was simply a great big pot of money that continuously replenished itself and was simply too tempting to leave alone and let it flourish as it should have.
CHARLES: I apologize for contributing to this and I just noticed your subsequent post.