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.