Reply #14: Totally depressing.. MY generation FUELED the boom years,

[SoCalDem]

suffered through at least 3 or 4 republican recessions, PREPAID our own social security payments, while bolstering the pathetic payments for our grandparents & parents, and now we are going to be "blamed" for actually expecting to withdraw our funds..

That's what this whole thing is about.. The admin simply must have a scapegoat, so it's gonna be "all our fault" for being greedy..

Generational warfare is always a convenient way for the government to steal money from all of us..
They remove the money, and then get everyone squabbling over who should "get the money".. The underlying problem? The money was stolen long ago.. Reminds me of heirs battling each other over the contents of Grandpa's safety deposit box...Family feuds that last forever..and when the box is opened?? nothing but pictures of stuff he bought with the money..

Shame on us for actually thinking that we were being good citizens all these years by being good little consumers (gotta keep the economy humming)and for being the ultimate "sandwich generation".. Lots of Boomers are caring for aging parents & grandparents AND their grown up kids and THEIR kids, because it costs too much for them to live alone. This is all being done while most Boomers are still working full time and desperately trying to get something set aside for themselves too..

Parents who might actually like to downsize and start saving money, cannot, because they still have 20 & 30-somethings living in their house, and then there's Grandma down the hall too.. It's hard to sell a house & move to a smaller place when you are the caretaker for 3 generations..

Lots of these 20-30 yr olds return to the nest with children of their own, and little money, so at 50 something, Boomers are still buying diapers...in ALL sizes from newborn to Granny-sized..

Once we move through the belly of the beast and are gone, don;t look for things to get all that much better.. At least some of us were still on the gravy train for a little while, but the jobs that we started careers with are going or gone, and I wonder how the masses of people who are content with $10 an hour jobs now, are ever going to retire or live in their old ages..

and once we are gone, how will the next generation care for their families without the help we have given them all these years?

Parents of Boomers were the first real generation to have "miracle drugs" & sophisticated medical care, so they lived very long lives, and medicare came along at just the right time for them.. The way things are going now, there will be lots of "losers" coming down the pike. People who cannot afford that miracle medicine and people who are broken by years of working 3 jobs with no medical benefits, will not be as healthy in their old age.

Boomers and parents of Boomers were also the last people who at least lived part of their lives eating unadulterated foods and (in some places) drank clean water and breathed clean air in their formative years..

Good luck to you young 'uns.. It might not be all that great for you when we are finally all gone..