Will anything less than a time machine that allows us to kill Karl Marx as a baby get the job done?
Will anything less than a time machine that allows us to kill Karl Marx as a baby get the job done?
The great population bulge known as the Baby Boomers will have to die out. We have all the dough and all the power, and we're working (and voting) hard to keep both.
fold art wrote:
The great population bulge known as the Baby Boomers will have to die out. We have all the dough and all the power, and we're working (and voting) hard to keep both.
^This is the attitude that results in the US being unable to fix its problems, OP. We can't resolve these issues because of the worst generation of Americans ever to exist...the boomers.
Boomers are a worthless generation that has done nothing but destroy this country and continually take credit for things they did not do. They have run BOTH political parties into the ground and are responsible for running the economy into the ground and creating a mountain of debt by consistently voting for generous entitlements for themselves while simultaneously refusing to pay (i.e. Raise taxes) for those entitlements.
They claim they have benefited us all by giving us cultural gifts--by starting movements that gave us equal rights for blacks, women, gay folks, by giving us modern music (like rock & roll) through their pioneering efforts, by giving us modern computer science, and through things like iconic movies.
But a closer look at these claims reveals their lies. As a starting point, please take note that it is widely agreed that Boomers were born 1946-1964. This means that the oldest members of this generation turned 30 in 1976 and, thus, they have been running the show in the US since the mid to late 1970s.
The major civil rights leaders for black equal rights in the 60s (Martin Luther King, Jr., Medger Evers, Rosa Parks, Ceaser Chavez, Fred Shuttlesworth, Jon Lewis, Malcom X, and many more) were all born in the 20s to early 40s. But you know who is a boomer? Al Sharpton.
The major players in the second wave feminist movement (Gloria Steinem, Betty Friedan, Mary King, Alice Rossi) of the 60s were all born in 20s - early 40s as well. Of course, this means the women who fought for basic equal rights (like the right to vote) were even older. These brave women were not boomers. But Boomers are the leaders of the disgusting mess that is third wave feminism...
The folks that were the pioneers in equal rights for gay people (Harvey Milk, Del Martin, Phyllis Lyon) also not Boomers.
Who is widely acknowledged to be the father of modern computer science? Alan Turing. A gay non-Boomer.
Let's examine the music claims...Jimmi Hendrix? Jim Morrison? The Beatles? The Rolling Stones? Bob Dylan? Yup, all non-Boomers.
How about movies, directors, actors, etc?... Stanley Kubrick? Harrison Ford? George Lucas? Robert De Niro? Al Pacino? Robert Duval? Martin Scorsese? Clint Eastwood? George Romero? Francis Ford Coppala? Chevy Chase? Steve Martin? J.J. Abrams? The entire Monty Python crew? Yup, all non-boomers.
To summarize, Boomers frequently claim that their generation was responsible for major cultural and art movements but it's totally not true. Boomers are parasites and leeches....and I am assume some are good people. We should build a wall on our southern boarder, strip the boomers of their ill-gotten entitlements, and ship them down to old Mexico. All of our problems would be solved. Let's make America great again!
These programs can not be stopped because government fooled everyone into thinking that "they put money in,so they should get money out". Of course there is no money. The government spent the money to buy votes the moment they got it. Soc Sec and Medicare are Ponzi schemes where the government convinced everyone to hand over their retirement account to the government. The government then guaranteed a comfortable retirement, with the only catch being that they will enslave our children and grandchildren to do it. These programs are the most hideous thing the government has done to its people in this country and should be held up as shining examples in every classroom of how our government lies to us and cheats us. No high school kid should EVER trust anything the government says.
That's the solution. Teach the next generation to refuse slavery and to blame government for its lies and fraud. Unfortunately they are teaching the opposite. So good luck with that.
Young people will have to actually vote. In other words, it's not going to happen.
Do you want to keep ObamaCare?
You appear to be confused as to the meaning of the word, 'slavery'.
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Repeal and don't replace.
It would take an increase of wages by the amount taken away. Social Security and Medicare are deferred income.
DiscoGary wrote:
These programs can not be stopped because government fooled everyone into thinking that "they put money in,so they should get money out".
They are loan pyramid schemes hatched by congressional "leaders". Breaking the egg, and stealing the loaned money, is what Tea Partiers believe they can fool their blind followers to support--blind followers like the OP.
Absolutely not! But, stop distracting from your failures, boomer. You are part of the problem. You post on here enough for me to know your political leanings which, for the most part, align with mine. The difference between us though is I advocate immediate action where you and your conservative boomer bretheran will still take the government handouts of SS and Medicare with the FALSE claim that you already "paid for it" and the government "owes" these things to you. Or, you guys say idiotic things like "I'd be fine with immediately doing away with these programs if you th government cut me a check for what I already paid". But, as you acknowledged in your post you didn't pay for anything, if you did these programs would be solvent. Instead, you voted for candidates (republicans) who may have been anti-taxes (a good thing) but who also refused to touch entitlements. You were asleep at the wheel. You are just as guilty as the libs of your generation.
The only respectable boomer position on this issue is one that agrees with immediate stoppage of SS payments and Medicare funding, like today. You get nothing. Confess your generations sins and beg for absolution.
Every one of my paychecks shows a good chunk of change being taken out for social security. I can only assume that you have never had a job and so have never seen a paycheck with these deductions. That would explain your ignorance.
Typical Boomer response. Pathetic.
Patheticentitlementgeneration wrote:
Pointing it Out! wrote:Every one of my paychecks shows a good chunk of change being taken out for social security. I can only assume that you have never had a job and so have never seen a paycheck with these deductions. That would explain your ignorance.
Typical Boomer response. Pathetic.
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The money that is being taken out is used to pay current recipients. You aren't paying for your own benefits; you are trying to steal them from me.
paygo wrote:
Pointing it Out! wrote:Every one of my paychecks shows a good chunk of change being taken out for social security. I can only assume that you have never had a job and so have never seen a paycheck with these deductions. That would explain your ignorance.
The money that is being taken out is used to pay current recipients. You aren't paying for your own benefits; you are trying to steal them from me.
"The money that is being taken out is used to pay current recipients" - CORRECT
"You aren't paying for your own benefits" - CORRECT
"you are trying to steal them from me." - INCORRECT
Patheticentitlementgeneration wrote:
Pointing it Out! wrote:Every one of my paychecks shows a good chunk of change being taken out for social security. I can only assume that you have never had a job and so have never seen a paycheck with these deductions. That would explain your ignorance.
Typical Boomer response. Pathetic.
You mad bro?
paygo wrote:
Pointing it Out! wrote:Every one of my paychecks shows a good chunk of change being taken out for social security. I can only assume that you have never had a job and so have never seen a paycheck with these deductions. That would explain your ignorance.
The money that is being taken out is used to pay current recipients. You aren't paying for your own benefits; you are trying to steal them from me.
^This! The $$$ being stolen from our paychecks is not the same $$$ we would (in theory) be getting back out anyway. This needs to stop TODAY.
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And following your line of thinking, Boomers had nothing to do with Medicare and SS either. Medicare was signed into law in 1965 before Boomers could even vote (voting age was 21). The SS Act was signed before Boomers were even born, in 1935.