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Fucking lazy-ass boomers getting my money.
Lazy-ass boomers that paid into SS their entire lives? Those lazy-ass boomers?
Yup, the same ones that actively were able to benefit from the cap of ss contributions due to their secure jobs paying out more than any of us are proportionally making now. Those same secure jobs they only received because the U.S. got to establish itself as a global hegemony due to being largely unharmed by WW2.
Boomers got to live the good life at the expense of our future, and they didn't do a goddamn thing to deserve it.
In my market, the median cost of housing has risen over 600% relative to median income since '74 - they've ridden that wave at the expense of future generations after breaking the guardrails off the economy. They haven't paid their fair share into SS, and now they're demanding more.
I thought millennials were supposed to be selfish and lazy.
Like millennials, right?
What happens when social security does run out and the millennials and gen z who have paid into it for years get 0 benefit? Ok, we've helped the boomers retire. But then when we need it it's not going to be there.
Only if we let the GOP and MAGAts control the narrative and make people not understand that minor reforms can make it feasible for DECADES longer than the projected 2035 at current funding rates. But people are stupid and greedy, which is (one reason) why the GOP still has as much power as they do.
The cliff has been looming for decades, and neither party has done a damn thing about it. It's fine if you want to blame the MAGA circus, but the truth is that no politician is going to do a damn thing until we hit a point of no return. The solutions are incredibly simple, but they all start with raising taxes, so no party is even going to bother.
These dumbasses call me a boomer. My parents were boomers.
All you gotta do to score some upvote dopamine is throw that word out there. Score!
And yes, Boomers, GenX, Millennials and GenZ, all of us deserve what we were promised. And we will get it. Won't be enough without some work and planning during one's working years, and won't be as fair a deal as the older folks got, but Social Security is going no where.