If You Are A Baby Boomer - the real reason YOU SHOULD BE FURIOUS over CPI cuts:

[John2]

115. Well I'm going to do some opposite

thinking here, because I disagree with every thing you said. Seniors should only worry about the last days of living because they earned it. Not everybody lived that long to see retirement age at 65. Some payed into Social Security ever since their teens and early twenties, whenever they were able to get a job and support themselves and their kids. Those seniors that you are talking about are the reason many of the Me Generation exist.

Generation X was the me Generation of the Reagan Era, when it became alright to neglect the Poor and Nuclear War became acceptable by a President of the United States. You see that attitude now in the House of Representatives and occassionally even President Obama showing some Adulation for Ronald Reagan. I was in the military then and that was the exact time Reagan and this me Generation even had the audacity to start reneging on the promises made to our Vietnam veterans. It was also the beginning of gang warfare in our cities between young people. Money and wealth was the center of their Universe. They would sell out anybody including their own kin, because materialism was God to them. They worshipped it.

The bottomline is money is not the judge of success. I grew up as a kid watching shows with scrooge like characters. A person can measure their success by how many people's lives they changed and how many friends they have when all is said and done. A lot of people in Generation X has gotten wealthy also. When will the Greed stop?

I think Romney is wrong. I think the people that have made a lot of profits are wrong. I think this country has done well by them and without the opportunitities this great country provided for them to succeed, they would not be where they are today. They should do their share and give back to this country. The burden should not be on their parents or seniors. We just have different values.