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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Gen Xer here. I don't hate the Boomers. But I do think that with the invariable cuts to come, they are going to need to share the pain. You can't just raise the retirement age, Medicare age, etc for younger generations. Boomers will need to suck it up with the rest of us.

Younger Boomers did lose a lot in the downturn, and I'm sure some of their retirements are delayed as a result. But the costs are higher for GenX and Y now than when the Boomers were younger - housing, college, gas, childcare, not to mention the coming costs for caring for elderly Boomer parents. The Boomers need to have some empathy for this - the average middle class X or Y-er can't save or build wealth the same way they did. We may never be able to.[/quote]Boomer here. By the time I retire, the full Social Security retirement age will be 66, not 65.  And I'm in the middle of the baby boom (1947 - 1964) so there are a lot of people coming after me some of whom won't get full Social Security till they're 67. I don't have a problem with that. I don't mind waiting till later.  I know there are a lot of us and that we are living much longer than originally expected when this system was first set up.  But it's not like we're all going to get what we were originally promised either. We [i]are[/i] sharing the pain.

Then again, I spend my time worrying about my kid (not a boomer) and I used to worry about my parents and in-laws before they passed (also not boomers).  I'm very concerned about the prospects for multiple generations, not just my own.  I think that's in the best interest of our country.

http://www.ssa.gov/retire2/retirechart.htm

Age To Receive Full Social Security Benefits
(Called "full retirement age" or "normal retirement age.") 
Year of Birth* 	Full Retirement Age
1937 or earlier 	65
1938 	65 and 2 months
1939 	65 and 4 months
1940 	65 and 6 months
1941 	65 and 8 months
1942 	65 and 10 months
1943--1954 	66
1955 	66 and 2 months
1956 	66 and 4 months
1957 	66 and 6 months
1958 	66 and 8 months
1959 	66 and 10 months
1960 and later 	67[/quote]

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