colfax_m
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The boomers have been the dominant political force well though the 2000s and are to this day. They voted for tax cut after tax cut.The boomers are getting their money. It’s the later generations that won’t. The 10s of trillions of debt is a trend we’ve only started to see in the 2000s. Blaming the boomers is far too easy and faulty of a scape goat. The entitlement programs driving the debt, despite consecutive record breaking years in tax revenues for the past decade, were passed many years ago. The expansion of those programs, further accelerating debt accumulation, is mainly coming from 1 party, the Democrats. You can see small case studies of this in deep blue states who have been practicing this behavior unopposed like NY, CA, and IL, who are now begging the fed for money, despite taxing their citizens into oblivion.If the boomers expected to get something back from social security, they shouldn’t have racked up tens of trillions of US debt. So sad, but that’s what personal responsibility is all about.Someone clearly doesn’t understand how social security works. If he’s a boomer, he’s been paying into the system for his entire life with the promise that he’ll receive that money, or at least some of it, in his retirement years. There’s nothing “free” about it. Do you have a job? Do you get paychecks? It’ll clearly show how much is being withdrawn weekly for social security.If you are a Baby Boomer, the president is finally ending your free ride.I'm for cutting off Social Security for everyone under 25yo - no more AFTER everyone above that who has actually paid into if for at least 20 years gets theirs paid.
You snowflakes seem to believe that the government is giving recipients government money each month, that they are doing recipients a favor by doing so. Those who believe that are just f*ing STUPID.
I HAVE PAID INTO SOCIAL SECURITY WITH THE PROMISE IT WOULD BE PROTECTED AND THERE FOR ME WHEN I RETIRE FOR 40 YEARS.
ITS NOT THE GOVERNMENTS MONEY - ITS MINE!
I don't know about you idiots who think killing SS without reimbursing anyone who has paid in is a good idea, but doing so would amount to THE LARGEST PONZI SCHEME IN WORLD HISTORY.
A man is sitting in prison right now for doing what is being suggested.
Screw that....
Tell you what...cut me a check right now for HALF of the money I have paid into SS, and you can do whatever you want with SS.
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The blame falls everywhere. The citizenry for throwing a hissy fit every time a politician steps up to tell the truth about these programs. Our education system raising kids to believe that government is a sugar daddy. The leftist media for leading the hissy-fit charge with overblown rhetoric about “evil politicians killing grandma with entitlement reforms”. The GOP for not practicing what they preach, going along to get along, and continually meeting halfway a party that just keeps on moving left. But most of all the party that keeps moving left, advocating for not only expansions of these programs, but vastly larger more costly programs, and screaming bloody murder anytime someone disagrees with them. It’s the same party that gave birth to modern monetary policy that literally says you can keep accumulating debt and just print more and continually sell it off without any consequence. You don’t have to be a PhD in economics to know that’s a recipe for disaster. You cannot be the party of the “sugar daddy” government and then blame your elders when you get your way. The debt we’re seeing now is what the American right-wing (not to be confused with European right wing) has been ringing the warning bell about since the birth of progressive politics. It’s been a slow climb up the never ending progressive mountain with our two-party opposition system, but here we are. How many more examples do we need to see from other nations and even our own states before we figure out that you can’t print, tax, and sell off debt and not have that behavior blow up in your face later down the road.
You bring up a lot of faults in our political system which I don't disagree with. Someone is going to have to pay a price for it.