Hard to feel any sympathy with you. Today's retirees have the reputation of being greedy geezers and the majority are ignorant but hard-ass Republicans who shit all over the rest of us. The federal government spends 6 and 1/2 times as much on each retiree than they do on each child. Today's retirees should be paying the their own way. I'm tired of paying for them.
Were you raised by wolves?
Go back with me in time and remember....Who brought your sorry ass into this world? Who fed you, clothed you, wiped your ass, your tears, payed for your wasted education? Santa Claus, the tooth fairy, the government??? You are so typical of the "ME" generation. You make me sick!
Ponder these numbers: 40 yrs of work, wife and I raised two children, both professionals and making six figure incomes, paying taxes, SS, Medicare, etc. just like you. I ran some numbers and found that I, alone, not even adding in what my wife paid in while working, paid almost 1 million dollars in income taxes, nearly 200K in SS, Medicare, 185K in school taxes with no kids in school for 23 years. I think you get the picture. The seniors who had work careers paid their way for the pittance they receive in return from SS. Medicare still isn't free to us, even though we paid our premiums 100 times over while working. It's called "play it forward." Generations carry and provide for each other. Are you really that stupid? Your poor parents spent way too much educating you....which bring me to your comment on education spending.
Per pupil spending? Money does not educate kids. If it did, why is the US, who spends the most per kid, ranks 7th/8th in the world of industrialized nations??? Our reading levels are somewhere in the middle, math and science in the bottom,with their thinking abilities, common sense and decency at the bottom. You are a poster child for the educational system.Your generation wants even college to be free to all on the taxpayer's dime. I worked my way through with a little help from my mother, as my dad died when I was 10.
By the way, without the SS for minor survivor's we would have been on public welfare.
I could go on, but selfish brats like you don't get it and never will. When,and I truly hope it doesn't happen to you, you become unemployed, please come back to this board and tell us what you are doing to survive. Unemployment, food stamps, gov't mortgage help, welfare? Or, will you be one of the many who returns to the nest of your "greedy geeze" parents?
I hope you wake up, grow up, and realize how selfish and foolish you really are.
One last thing.....I am an independent...no lying, cheating, self-serving political party will ever tell me what to believe in....Republican, Democrat, doesn't matter to me BUT..,you have the most left wing president and democratic congress in history and look where we are today!!! Just saying.
You have a good day!
