Is the health care crisis...

[RollergirlVT]

the administrations way of hedging the baby-boomer strain on social security? Kids are covered (generally), younger folks don't use as much health care (thus are less affected), but the aging boomer's can't afford it when they need it and thus are more likely die off before they can start collecting. Just another conspiracy theory.

[havocmom]

1. That's my guess

as I stagger toward my dotage trying to hold body together with herbs

[Warpy]

2. The boomers are the most despised generation out there

Not only did we lose the glorious adventure in Vietnam, we acutally had the unmitigated gall to call the government on its lies about that war. The bastards have been screwing us ever since.

Our pensions were not portable until very recently, so the bulk of our working lives have been spent paying part of our wages into money that the companies basically stole when we changed jobs. Social security is all a lot of us have, since we also went through a period of double digit unemployment, double digit inflation, double digit interest rates, and 30 years of downward pressure on our wages. We haven't been paid enough to save for the future, by and large.

Now Bush and his neocon assholes, after having robbed social security to the tune of 40% for over 20 years, want to abolish social security altogether.

I sincerely hope all you folks in your 20s and 30s are prepared to have your mother in law move in with you, since social security has always been primarily a woman's program. Now, after beggaring the older boomers their whole working lives, they're going to leave us with nothing when we are too old and sick to work.

To say I am angry at the governments of the past 30 years is a gross understatement, as it would be to say I am afraid for the future.