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John2

(2,730 posts)
9. Yeah,
Sun Mar 3, 2013, 10:10 AM
Mar 2013

they must think all Americans are dumb and not as educated as they are. I know a sham when I see it. Alter makes the claim that he is a baby boomer and also makes the claim everyone else is making, people will be supporting the baby boomer generation. He projects this claim in 20 years.

I'm here to say I'm a second generation baby boomer and eligible to retire in not 20 years but 10. At the earliest less than ten. I'm at the back end of the baby boom generation also. The baby boom generation has been paying for previous and current generations. Now when many of them become eligible, certain people want to give them the shaft. They did not create this current Debt or Deficit. Their funds were raided to pay for other expenditures including generous tax cuts for the top and ill advised Wars, including weapons build up under the false pretenses of national security. This includes nation building that also benefits wealthy corporations. It is very easy for a Congress bought and payed for by the wealthy to hand out bribes to others protecting this empire. Then put the Bill on those they raided the funds from.

The American people and especially the Baby Boom generation need to hold those responsible for the Debt accountable for that Debt. The best solution is to make Congress live up to their responsibilities and make them repay every cent they stole from Social Security. Some of the enormous profits earned by those who benefited should be forfeited over the next Decade by eliminating all those loopholes and closing all those bases throughout the World to support their Empire. Why do we still maintain large Armies in Germany and Japan?

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