"Total Boomer Luxury Communism"

[HikerGuy83]

More eggnog on the monitor.

STOP IT !!!!!

 

[HikerGuy83]

Then they won't even notice the 24% reduction to their government checks. All the more reason that suggestions we ought to restore it via higher taxes on working people or more deficit spending are nuts.

I agree they are nuts.

But that is what will happen.

You really think the S.S. crowd is not going to elect someone who will do that.

You can thank Claude Pepper and Lyndon Johnson for a lot of this mess.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

I've been seeing this phrase more often lately. I suspect it presages a new fault line that will become increasingly prominent in American politics over the next half decade. In the next year or so, the largest cuts ever to food assistance and health care for low-income people will take effect; in a few weeks young people behind on their student loans will start to see their wages garnished; the housing shortage will continue to keep a key slice of the American dream out of reach for many young families, child care will continue to be exorbitant and fertility rates will continue their downward creep, who knows if the moribund job market will resurrect. All of this will disproportionately fall on working age individuals and families.

Meanwhile, in 4-5 years we're likely to see the Boomers step forward hat-in-hand to ask--or perhaps more likely demand--that those families intervene to head off the coming automatic ~24% cut to Social Security checks (and the potential pare backs to Medicare benefits coming not too long after). When that moment and that debate come, do the increasingly combustible intergenerational tensions ignite?

What Is Total Boomer Luxury Communism?

Gee, I wonder why that happened?

Note, the only time Americans saw increased buying power was under the Harding/Coolidge Roaring 20s

The Fed then made sure to crash the economy under Hoover

 

[Billiejeens]

Hope you didn't squander those savings, they'll be coming in handy soon.

The savings were approximately negative 300 percent.

 

[Billiejeens]

The “problem” fixes itself in a few years, it’s automatic.

You are an economic idiot.

 

[Billiejeens]

I thought Trump was going to replace Obamacare in 2017?

you thought because you're an idiot.

 

[Billiejeens]

And you bleeding heart liberals need to accept that they're going to get what money is available to give them, which means if they haven't bothered to start preparing over the past several decades they better start now.

Upside down world

 

[Lisa558]

Upside down world

Notice that libtard doesn’t say anything about irresponsible welfare leeches “preparing.” They can’t even think ahead enough to use birth control.

He’s a Marxist: no use for retirees once they age out of the workforce. But the young sluts with five babies and five baby daddies….THEM he wants to give all sorts of freebies to.

 

[Greenbeard]

So when exactly are the “compassionate” leftists going to take away money promised to Grandma to keep funding soda and junk food for welfare recipients?

The "promise" Boomers were given was that full Social Security benefits wouldn't be available after the late 2020s/early 2030s. From a summary of the Trustees' report from 1994: "For the combined OASI and DI trust funds, the year of exhaustion is 2029--in 35 years."

If you're given a warning 35 years in advance that a quarter of your Social Security check won't be available and you fail to prepare, who's at fault? Was there some groundswell of Boomers demanding of their politicians "please tax me more now so my benefits can remain intact in three or four decades" in the '90s that was ignored by the Gingrich Republicans they chose to put in power?

 

[Lisa558]

The "promise" Boomers were given was that full Social Security benefits wouldn't be available after the late 2020s/early 2030s. From a summary of the Trustees' report from 1994: "For the combined OASI and DI trust funds, the year of exhaustion is 2029--in 35 years."

If you're given a warning 35 years in advance that a quarter of your Social Security check won't be available and you fail to prepare, who's at fault? Was there some groundswell of Boomers demanding of their politicians "please tax me more now so my benefits can remain intact in three or four decades" in the '90s that was ignored by the Gingrich Republicans they chose to put in power?

Take the money from welfare leeches who never contributed a dime, and get them off their butts into a job instead of producing four and five new welfare leeches - and leave elderly who contributed to society for 40 years and now get a. $1500 SS the hell alone.

Your attitude screams Marxist.

 

[Greenbeard]

Take the money from welfare leeches who never contributed a dime, and get them off their butts into a job instead of producing four and five new welfare leeches - and leave elderly who contributed to society for 40 years and now get a. $1500 SS the hell alone.

Your attitude screams Marxist.

My attitude is we don’t need to “take the money” from anyone. No one is being blindsided, people have had 3-4 decades to prepare for coming automatic adjustment.

 

[Dagoth-Ur]

I've been seeing this phrase more often lately. I suspect it presages a new fault line that will become increasingly prominent in American politics over the next half decade. In the next year or so, the largest cuts ever to food assistance and health care for low-income people will take effect; in a few weeks young people behind on their student loans will start to see their wages garnished; the housing shortage will continue to keep a key slice of the American dream out of reach for many young families, child care will continue to be exorbitant and fertility rates will continue their downward creep, who knows if the moribund job market will resurrect. All of this will disproportionately fall on working age individuals and families.

Meanwhile, in 4-5 years we're likely to see the Boomers step forward hat-in-hand to ask--or perhaps more likely demand--that those families intervene to head off the coming automatic ~24% cut to Social Security checks (and the potential pare backs to Medicare benefits coming not too long after). When that moment and that debate come, do the increasingly combustible intergenerational tensions ignite?

What Is Total Boomer Luxury Communism?

Tough shit you fuckers had life on easy mode and still fucked it all up!

 

[Dagoth-Ur]

And your team has had numerous opportunities to fix it, and only made it even worse.

Again: FU.

Which team? Boomers were in charge!

 

[Dagoth-Ur]

I agree they are nuts.

But that is what will happen.

You really think the S.S. crowd is not going to elect someone who will do that.

You can thank Claude Pepper and Lyndon Johnson for a lot of this mess.

Then I will get paid in crypto.

 

[Dagoth-Ur]

The "promise" Boomers were given was that full Social Security benefits wouldn't be available after the late 2020s/early 2030s. From a summary of the Trustees' report from 1994: "For the combined OASI and DI trust funds, the year of exhaustion is 2029--in 35 years."

If you're given a warning 35 years in advance that a quarter of your Social Security check won't be available and you fail to prepare, who's at fault? Was there some groundswell of Boomers demanding of their politicians "please tax me more now so my benefits can remain intact in three or four decades" in the '90s that was ignored by the Gingrich Republicans they chose to put in power?

Where was that lock box Al bore was talking about?

 

[Oddball]

Which team? Boomers were in charge!.

Shitlibs, for whom "MOAR GUBMINT!" is the answer to everything.

 

[Greenbeard]

Where was that lock box Al bore was talking about?

Turns out Gore didn't become president so his policies didn't happen. Boomers chose 25 years of deficits instead and now the piper is about to be paid.

 

[Dagoth-Ur]

Turns out Gore didn't become president so his policies didn't happen. Boomers chose 25 years of deficits instead and now the piper is about to be paid.

lol implying that lying **** would do anything

 

[Lisa558]

My attitude is we don’t need to “take the money” from anyone. No one is being blindsided, people have had 3-4 decades to prepare for coming automatic adjustment.

Young people need to prepare to WORK for a living instead of taking OPM for food for their kids.

You’re a typical socialist Marxist: make the elderly suffer, and keep the handouts going to young, able-bodied adults.

 

[Greenbeard]

Young people need to prepare to WORK for a living instead of taking OPM for food for their kids.

You’re a typical socialist Marxist: make the elderly suffer, and keep the handouts going to young, able-bodied adults.

Everyone’s handouts, young and old, are getting cut. The pain will be broadly shared.