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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]this was a terrific article and I'm surprised by the various replies consistent mostly in their denials.  I study economic data and if anything the author understates the crisis ahead of us.  If my grandparents could fight wars for us, I would hope we could take a bit less social security and stop looking to the govt (a recent phenomenon) to solve our problems for us.  I wish we'd lower the voting age to 12 and let our kids, who will have to pay for our spending, vote in a new crowd of pols.[/quote]

The issue is not whether the country faces economic crisis.  The problem the posters have is with blaming mommy and daddy for it.  Really, it comes down to this:  we are jealous that they grew up in a boom time, bitter that life is harder for us.  And we blame them for a demographic trend created by their parents, not them.[/quote]Yes, I'm a boomer and I'm prepared to sacrifice some to fix social security if asked to do so for a plan that will work.  I'm not doing it for Romney because his plan is smoke and mirrors but I'd be glad to put off social security for a few years longer, take less when I retire, or pay more through the payroll tax now. But don't expect me to roll over for Romney/Ryan's master plan to give everyone (especially the very rich) enormous tax cuts while giving us vague promises that they'll replace the revenue somehow.  Such bullshit! Something a 12-year-old would fall for!

And let's go back to this allegation that we grew up in boom times.  We middle of the pack boomers graduated from high school and college into stagflation in the 70s and then endured Reagan's recession in the early 80s - which got a hold of the rust belt where I lived then and never really left.  The only boom times I remember were for a few years during the 90s and another few years during the aughts. And, ahem, I do believe there were other generations who also got the benefits of those boom times.  I don't recall there being an age limitation during the tech boom which stipulated that only boomers could be hired - if anything it was the younger adults who benefited from the tech boom.[/quote]

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