Quote Originally Posted by Lewkowski View Post
I feel it necessary to remind everyone that currently SS favors people who were irresponsible and did not save for retirement.
Will this be your pat answer for everything now? It's all about those stupid, lazy, undisciplined people?

Sure, there are people who didn't save enough for retirement or the escalating costs of Old Age. Those with defined benefit pensions also got shafted a bit over time (see number of plans taken over by PBGC). So did those retiring during the financial melt-down and don't have another 20 years to recoup and build up their nest egg. Manual laborers especially ended up as 65 + with plenty of health problems and limited savings.

If I had to make a blanket statement it would be that Baby Boomers in general have been "favored" as voting blocs in the schemes they benefit from, but they're now the ones yelling loudly about debt and deficit, and their grandchildren's future? Right. I'd believe it if the comfortable and well-off boomers agreed to refuse their "entitlements" so their poorer peer group won't have to use section 8 housing, food stamps, heating subsidies, or Medicaid.