you're hurting their children too. You would be engaging in the same behavior they are. Who else is going to shoulder the burden? It would be the kids and grandkids.

No poetic justice please. I'm already screwed enough as it is. :)

Your comment bespeaks some hostility towards seniors based on videoclips from teaparties.

I'm 58 yr. old, and don't know anyone on SS or medicare who begrudges a public healthcare option for all.

And even beyond the healthcare debate, those of us who are approaching SS status had their payroll taxes raised some 25 yrs. ago--as well as retirement ages raised--in order to ensure the solvency of the SS system, not to be used as some sort of vindictive political football--whether from the right or the left.

respectfully say; you're a fucking moron! I worked my ass off for 40 years and earned every penny of the pittance I'm payed every month. Fuck you!

into this SS "entitlement" program. As things are I will soon not be able to get healthcare except for Medicare which will be my only access to a certain medicine without which, I will die; is that the poetic justice? I guess I'm not quite understanding what you are trying to get at here.

We need a NATION WIDE STRIKE for Real healthcare reform

does not mean they deserve the "hot poker" of karma, unless the embedded assumption is that karma takes down those who have achieved a degree of success and comfort.

It is the recipients and current investors (tax payers) who should be wielding the symbolic poker of fate in the direction of the managers of our funds. Either they do it right and with transparency or they need to be called on their incompetence.

I was not aware that Medicare and SS were a right, but as long as I am on the subject, let me ask a question? Are you in any way aware to what extent Medicare and SS are underfunded? Are you aware of how much more on average a person today can expect to get back from both these programs in excess of what they put in? Are you aware that the money you paid in was spent by the politicians you elected (I was too young to vote)...decades ago? I am very aware of the numbers...because it's coming right out of my paycheck. That's money that I will not have to save for my kids' education or for my retirement. I will not have a pension or Medicare or SS because your politicians opened a door for employers to escape from pensions and you will have used Medicare and SS up. You want to know why people are angry? Wanna trade places?

huh

As a boomer, I fail to identify with the ideology that you presume we do. Most folks my age lived the same lives you live--or will live--work, family, and home. It seems a bit disenguous to associate us with the banksters, the elite, the money-managers.

It seems like everyone with power in that age range is pretty much a greed head tho, dedicated to shoddy establishment worldviews &tc. It's not fair to generalize that to you and reasonable boomers but would you say that your generation on the whole has been quite a let-down?

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