In other words, Mr Boomer: Your kids are screwed if this bill passes and you do not share in the pain. Oh, you don't want to hear it? Again? Okay, then I'll talk to anyone born after 1964 in the US:
Looks like the Boomers will get one last fuck in on the anyone GenX & under before they move on to bedpans & broomhandles -- and the occasional midnight toke in the nursing home:
"So who are the losers in the Graham, Paul, Lee plan? The answer is that anyone born after 1966. If you’re younger than 47 today, bend over. (the math is off, read below. -DE) The Boomers are going to screw you. You’re going to pay more than you should and you’re going to get less than the boomers got.
How could that possibly happen? Easy. It’s the demographics. Those who will “win” this age war out vote those who will lose. There are some very powerful lobbies at work as well. The AARP has a very big stick; they use their weapons on the Pols very effectively.
I will be sad if this comes about. This would be the greatest “Pass the Trash” for any generation in history. While the proposed changes would take SS off the discussion table for another decade or so it will come back into the headlines in a very big way at some point. There is absolutely no fairness in a plan that protects Boomers at the cost of the rest of society. "
(Via Senators Graham, Paul & Lee on Social Security Reform– “If you're under 47 - bend over” | zero hedge.)
While I disagree with the math, it's anyone born after 1964 who's going to get the screwing, I agree with the article. Anyone GenX'er (face it, there weren't many of us) is going to get screwed by this bill. The Boomers' kids of GenY? Doubly so, as there are no STEM or 'intern' jobs for them -- those are all offshore or H1B'd by their parents. If not that then Vivek Wadhwa's 'entrepreneurs from China & India will save us?' Please.
Personally I wouldn't mind if the parasites who have held the political power for the past 20 years (US POTUS's Clinton, Bush, Obama), who got us into $14 trillion in debt, mostly for war & pet entitlements, who gave us their cold war fear in the form of a "War on Terror" (which I call a war on guys in caves), who gave us a security & surveillance apparatus that dwarfs the Stasi, and a denunciation framework of 'if you see something say something'... and finally who gave us the scam of the century, currently marketed as 'Climate Disruption' ... The 'worst generation' that will be remembered for all these bad, repressive things...
...nevermind all the compliant H1B slaves that they imported, jobs they offshored, or immigration laws that they were 'too busy to enforce...'
Don't you think they could take at least some responsibility for the mess they caused? Maybe sacrifice some of their ill-gotten gains? Or should we just 'toke up' and worship them?
Nah. It'll never happen. Don't trust anyone over 47, folks..
Drunky out.
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