To **** the both of you.

Gary,

Really? You are going to try to blame the deficit on President Reagan? So, Bush and Obama had nothing to do with it? And Congress didn’t appropriate the money?

I didn’t blame anything on future generations. I simply said they are going to have to step up to solve these problems, like we did in our generation.

Then, you are going to wish that I die a horrible death. Man, I feel sorry for you in more ways than one.

Google David Stockman. He was the Gipper’s Axman, and he now says he is sorry. Poor guy ran around all the pundits and the pols trying to tell them we need $500B a year more revenue – reversing himself.

Don’t worry, daddy-O, you will get yours back. Medicl science will make sure you die of some horrific disease like Reagan.

…I cannot say for the corruption we have in our political cabinets.

Unfortunately, most of our generation will desperately need their Social Security benefits to survive. I’m hoping I won’t have to depend on them, but I could always get sick. And, I suspect people with high retirement incomes won’t get as much SS in the future. They have to cut back somewhere.

But, to call someone selfish because they want the benefits they paid for their entire working life is pretty disingenuous. You are asking so much and offering so little. What do you intend to sacrifice for the benefit of our country? What are you doing to fix the problems?

Waiting for the selfish old people to die off doesn’t sound like much of a plan to fix Social Security. It’s going to be up to your generation, not ours. You had better think of something besides blaming the people who funded the system.

Talk is cheap. Blame is free. Action is priceless.

This is a thought-provoking post.

But, I’m going to have to disagree with your assesment here.

As a middle-aged guy (age 45, end of the baby boomers), what I have seen is our generation has worked really, really, hard not only for our families and for ourselves, but for the betterment of our country and the entire world. Our generation learned math and science in school and we invented most of the tehnologies the newer generations take for granted. We worked our own way through college and then funded our children’s education, while often taking care of the previous generation in their retirement.

As for the debt left to our children, I am going to have to blame that on our Government. We have contributed more in taxes than any other generation in the history of our nation. And, all of that hard-earned tax money was squandered away by a corrupt government that has rigged the system to favor incumbents. The fact that some people may have lived above their means is not relevant to the next generation, since that debt isn’t passed on to them. They will certainly inherit more from us than we did from our parents.

So, if the future generations want to look back at us as selfish and and short-sighted, I say let them. Let them see if they can measure up to our contributions in their own endeavors. Are they going to revolutionize medicine, travel and energy? Or, are they going to sit around whining about the mess they inherited? Because, the way I see it, they don’t seem to have it so bad.