Boomer Retirement Disaster Looms

[CavsSuperFan]

Did you hear about the Gen X guy who died drinking milk? The cow fell on him…

[CosmicCowboy]

I've never taken a two hour lunch at any job (and it was fior a specific reason like a doctor's appointment) without asking my supervisor first. Doing that kind of stuff unannounced is baby boomer behavior.

I eat at my desk.

[boutons_deux]

flatter yourself, CC?

a LOT of wage slaves eat at their desk, and millions take no vacation, come in to work sick (no sick pay, fear of being fired) and are unofficially on call 24 unpaid hours/day.

the VRWC War on Employees as wasted money has intimidated people into over-working for less real take home pay, skipping vacaction, 40+ hour weeks (no macho), staying in ty jobs with ty bosses, etc, etc.

Social/economic Darwinistic, inhumane America is ed and un able.

[DUNCANownsKOBE]

I eat at my desk.

Of all the arguments I've had with you i don't think I've ever questioned your personal work ethic, tbh.

My desk jobs have been internships where it was regularly my job to get food for the office, so I rarely took lunch at all.

[Clipper Nation]

Truth Bombs

Gen X & Y are spoiled and lazy
Most of them will live at home their entire lives…It is a fact that major companies have sensitivity training to communicate effectively with said species…If a Boomer takes a two hour lunch his supervisor says, “Hey when you clock out, get your butt back in here to make up your time”…If Gen X or Y takes a two hour lunch his supervisor says stuff like” Now was that a good thing”? “Why don’t you just reflect on it for a while?”

It is fact that social security has been well funded.
Democratic controlled congress has raided the funds on two occasions to pay for their non funded pensions, en lements and raises.

When the Boomers retire & start downsizing Gen X & Y are going to be hit with a rude awakening…

The Social Security thing is mostly a truthbomb (wasn't the social security fund reduced to a bunch of IOU's at some point?), but your first point is the typical Boomer attempt at deflecting how your generation failed society onto future generations....

There's a reason why Boomers are known as the "Me Generation," tbh.... bottom line is that you all felt en led to OUR money and voted yourselves to it....

[DUNCANownsKOBE]

plenty of baby boomers know the truth about themselves...

[boutons_deux]

Boomers paid SS just like everybody.

it was the Congress of all ages that raided the SS trust fund (converted the trust fund into US bonds) to finance general operations. in fact, SS is required to take any surplus and buy US bonds (lend to the govt).

the boomer trash talk is nothing but the guilty plutocrats, VRWC, 1% hiding behind a smokescreen as they have rigged and continue to rig the economy and govt to their outlandish, irretrievable advantages.

SS is not broken, just like USPS is not broken. All it has to do is cash in its bonds and/or raise the highly regressive SS cap from $113K to $1M.

What really ing up the post-boomer generations is globalization of labor and the war on unions destroying well paying jobs and college loans as decades long-millstone (as loan servicers rack up the $100Ms in fees and interest).

[Ginobilly]

Boomers paid SS just like everybody.

it was the Congress of all ages that raided the SS trust fund (converted the trust fund into US bonds) to finance general operations. in fact, SS is required to take any surplus and buy US bonds (lend to the govt).

the boomer trash talk is nothing but the guilty plutocrats, VRWC, 1% hiding behind a smokescreen as they have rigged and continue to rig the economy and govt to their outlandish, irretrievable advantages.

SS is broken. All it has to do is cash in its bonds and/or raise the highly regressive SS cap from $113K to $1M.

What really ing up the post-boomer generations is globalization of labor and the war on unions destroying well paying jobs and college loans as decades long-millstone (as loan servicers rack up the $100Ms in fees and interest).

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The majority of the 47% wont ever work. So that means the 1% rides healthy middle and lower middle class individuals into the ground by making them pay for the laziness of the 1% and 47%. And what a lot of people don't realize is that the 1% owns all the worlds banks and control EVERYTHING dealing with currency. It's always rigged so that the federal reserve always wins. it's a big ole ponzi scheme that only certain people benefit. I own a small business and work full time(6 days a week,10-12 hours a day) and I paid over 20 thousand in taxes to those in leeches. Me chingo bien y bonito for all the that I own.

[vy65]

You do realize boomers = the 1%/VRWC/banksters etc..., right?

[boutons_deux]

You do realize boomers = the 1%/VRWC/banksters etc..., right?

you do realize that the 1%, the plutocracy pay relatively nothing into highly regressive SS?

you do realize that the real war isn't the your bogus boomer bull , but the 1% vs 99%, aka Economic Class Warfare?

[FuzzyLumpkins]

Boomers paid SS just like everybody.

it was the Congress of all ages that raided the SS trust fund (converted the trust fund into US bonds) to finance general operations. in fact, SS is required to take any surplus and buy US bonds (lend to the govt).

the boomer trash talk is nothing but the guilty plutocrats, VRWC, 1% hiding behind a smokescreen as they have rigged and continue to rig the economy and govt to their outlandish, irretrievable advantages.

SS is not broken, just like USPS is not broken. All it has to do is cash in its bonds and/or raise the highly regressive SS cap from $113K to $1M.

What really ing up the post-boomer generations is globalization of labor and the war on unions destroying well paying jobs and college loans as decades long-millstone (as loan servicers rack up the $100Ms in fees and interest).

The boomers have been in the electoral drivers seat for the last 40 years. They 'paid SS like everyone else' yet:

More worrying is that this generation seems to be able to leverage its size into favourable policy. Governments slashed tax rates in the 1980s to revitalise lagging economies, just as boomers approached their prime earning years. The average federal tax rate for a median American household, including income and payroll taxes, dropped from more than 18% in 1981 to just over 11% in 2011. Yet sensible tax reforms left less revenue for the generous benefits boomers have continued to vote themselves, such as a prescription-drug benefit paired with inadequate premiums. Deficits exploded. Erick Eschker, an economist at Humboldt State University, reckons that each American born in 1945 can expect nearly $2.2m in lifetime net transfers from the state—more than any previous cohort.

http://www.economist.com/node/21563725

What we need is a wealth tax to get back some of that $2.2m back to pay for the boomer's retirement.

[vy65]

lol banksters

[Das Texan]

Be that as it may…You need to work harder & take care of your elders…It is only right...

So get to working and take care of your elders instead of taking from the constantly.