Strong opposition among young people to raising the Social Security retirement age

[SheilaT]

35. Actually, no. The so-called

"greatest generation" are mostly gone, as they're those who were adults during WWII.

I used to read old Life Magazines. The single most educational thing I've ever done. And I have to tell you that it was clear from reading them that that generation, once the Great Depression had ended, benefitted enormously, far more than is recognized, by the economic boom of the war itself and after.

They also took on a lot of consumer debt, which is also not acknowledged, but which we Boomers are blamed for.

I think the core of the raising the retirement and medicare age idea is that older people, already in the system, and who tend to vote in large numbers, will go along with it because they won't be affected. I'm outraged at that idea, and I'm 64 myself, and less than a year from Medicare. I do plan to keep on working and postpone taking SS as long as possible, at least to age 66, hopefully to age 70. But once Medicare kicks in, I'll seriously look at leaving my current part-time job and take up doing temp work, so I can work for a few weeks or months and then take time off to do some travelling. Without Medicare I definitely wouldn't have that choice. And I'm very healthy, no pre-existing conditions of any kind, so I'm far better off than a lot of people my age.