Reply #29: LOL. The "collective we" whom must be "paid back" are the ones for whose benefit

[Romulox]

the so-called "trust fund" was spent in the first place! So when I am "paying back" the babyboomers for money they spent on themselves before I was born, I am undifferetiated part of the "collective we", but when it comes time to draw a benefit, I am back to Romulox, the individual denied care in a program that I pay for every week. It seems like membership in this "collective we" is quite fluid!

By the same logic, the "collective we" are just taking care of our own children with WIC or food stamps--they aren't "welfare" either.