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TheMastersNemesis

(10,602 posts)
Sun May 14, 2017, 08:36 AM May 2017

Young Generation Clueless How Totally Screwed They Are W/GOP.

If you are younger and vote GOP you are really nuts. The younger generation is royally screwed if the GOP stays dominant. Whether it is environment, labor, retirement, job security, schools, et al you are really doomed as far as I am concerned.

The younger generation will not have the economic resources that their grandparents had under FDR. The baby boom generation is already feeling the heat with cuts to social programs and the degradation of retirement systems. The 401K system is simply totally inadequate and Ryan wants to make Social Security a 401K program and make Medicare really just private insurance with a worthless coupon.

With no job security and NO secure retirement system there will BE NO RETIREMENT and NO ECONOMIC SECURITY for anyone under 50 if the GOP has its way. Things will go back to 1900 when old folks just died poor if they did not die young. What is worse is that by the time young parent today are middle aged they will be on the Walmart job market depending on their kids.

The GOP has pretty much scuttled economic security and the "American Dream" for most of the young generation. We will surely be "third world" with their policies if continued. We are already on the way.

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Young Generation Clueless How Totally Screwed They Are W/GOP. (Original Post) TheMastersNemesis May 2017 OP
the result of heaven05 May 2017 #1
People always say Social Security and Medicare are issues pertaining to older voters. Not so! dawg May 2017 #2
 

heaven05

(18,124 posts)
1. the result of
Sun May 14, 2017, 08:46 AM
May 2017

the "dumbing down of ameriKKKa". Fox snooze, USAtoday, and the rest. It has been a priority of the PTB so that we could be at a place with the POTUS an ignorant lowlife and his fucking family too!!!!!!!!

dawg

(10,610 posts)
2. People always say Social Security and Medicare are issues pertaining to older voters. Not so!
Sun May 14, 2017, 10:46 AM
May 2017

They already *have* their benefits, and it's doubtful that even today's Republicans would try to reduce or eliminate benefits for those already receiving them.

No.

It's those "future recipients" who are likely to get screwed.

And that means young people. And poor old, constantly crapped-upon, Generation X.

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