Amazing people can’t understand this. Gen X and Millennials are footing the bill for Boomer social security benefits. Boomers paid for The Greatest Generation and Silent Generation social security. It’s a Ponzi scheme.

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Posted by SlowFlowPro

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Posted on 3/30/24 at 7:09 am to ronricks

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Amazing people can’t understand this.

It's just a self perception thing. People who are looking forward to SS but perceive themselves as "small government conservatives" who don't like welfare, can't imagine they're licking their chops at the largest welfare program in human history.

This guy is demanding no changes at all, which don't even reflect how SS was supposed to work (tying the age of receipt to life expectancy). Keeping the age so low at 65 is counter to what the program is supposed to be.

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Posted by wackatimesthree

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Posted on 3/30/24 at 8:24 am to ronricks

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Amazing people can’t understand this.

Oh, they can.

They just refuse to.

SFP is 100% correct. If a guy like that's tax money goes to pay for an anti-poverty government program for someone who doesn't work and is 40, well, that's welfare.

If his tax money goes to pay for a government program for someone who doesn't work and is 68, well, that's THEIR MONEY (always in all caps), with the THEIR referring to the person receiving the anti-poverty government benefits.

It's very obviously not their money and it's very obviously the same thing.

But in this populist age, good luck making someone like the poster above admit that.

No, in this populist age he's being STOLEN FROM.

This post was edited on 3/30/24 at 8:26 am

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