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In reply to the discussion: This message was self-deleted by its author [View all]geckosfeet
(9,644 posts)1. Agreed for the most part. Disagree with the boomer bashing.
Health care: we have a huge health care problem in this country. 45 million with no health care. Imo they should all have easy free access to health care. Most boomers have healthcare provisions in pension plans and/or social security.
Many boomers will retire on SSI. Some will stil work. But that opens job opportunities for the newly employable.
SSI funding. Thd boomers, and everyone else has paid into SSI. ie: fully funded. If the government pisses that away in the coporate quest for global domination, how is that any one demographics fault?
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Maybe 20-somethings ought to consider living in crappy apartments after college, like I and many
WinkyDink
Aug 2013
#37
I was 37 before I moved out of a no-AC $290 three-occupant 2-1 with roaches...
Eleanors38
Aug 2013
#41
Ha ha. Yes. Everyone the boomers invented corruption and political duplicity.
geckosfeet
Aug 2013
#13
Yes, we perfected it. So many examples, daily life in the US by definition is a series of denials
Safetykitten
Aug 2013
#20
Respectfully, it is still an "ism." And isms seek blame, scapegoating & distraction.
Eleanors38
Aug 2013
#42
True, but they may be using rocks and mallets to write. But yes, every generation has it's issues...
Safetykitten
Aug 2013
#19
You must be very young. I'm 63; it was MY PARENTS' GENERATION who were "Reagan Democrats."
WinkyDink
Aug 2013
#36
It's the result of years of lies about SS, probably just a lack of knowledge of the facts.
sabrina 1
Aug 2013
#33
Last I checked the SS fund had a surplus of over 2 trillion dollars. Thanks Boomers! The Fed Govt
sabrina 1
Aug 2013
#39
You need to look again at SS, as Sabrina said the boomers left a huge surplus ...
slipslidingaway
Aug 2013
#47
I don't think anyone here said that it would be a physically dystopian science fiction world...
Safetykitten
Aug 2013
#23
How serendipidous, we've been considering this very issue for the few months.
Egalitarian Thug
Aug 2013
#44
oh my gosh I can't believe some of the the responses on this thread. Just when I think we can't
liberal_at_heart
Aug 2013
#45