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That's partly because Social Security was never supposed to replace a defined benefit pension.   [b]I would add, that it's the wealthy Boomers and their parents who have eliminated pensions in the private sector[/b] (and are not calling for elimination of pensions in the public sector).   I would add that a 70 year old (in your example) likely had/has a pension.  And if it's a woman, she's probably getting her husband's pension.

We can continue to squabble and have generation wars.  But instead we should deal with reality and try to go forward.  There has to be a better way.  
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Again with the description of the situation as if we all elected someone in our generation to make decisions about pensions and therefore we are culpable, based on our age alone.  If I had voted for Bush and supported his invasion of Iraq, well, then maybe you could blame me for the thousands of Iraqi war dead.  At least you could say I had a very small hand in it.  But I've got news for you, pp, I didn't elect the people who screwed up our economy and eliminated pensions.  I didn't get the phone call from the financial specialists who created the credit default swaps asking me for my opinion on it or wondering how I felt about pushing subprime mortgages on people.

Some really bizarre thinking going on on this thread with folks trying to make this a generational issue when the real problem is corporate capitalism.  It was a problem for my grandparents' and parents' generation.  And if we all keep fighting about specious generational differences, it will continue to be a problem for my daughter's generation.  And that's what worries me the most.  Economic inequality is increasing and I worry for the younger generation.  But it appears that the model on DCUM is to whine about it and blame the older generation rather than do anything constructive.  Thanks, but I'm not going to pin it on my grandparents and parents.  I'd rather do something about it myself.[/quote]

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