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Volaris Donating Member (479 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-14-11 08:13 AM
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128. quite the opposite, what I should have said was
that the IMMEDIATE problem seems to be the funding of Medicare through the years of the Boomer retirement, eventually, they will be gone, and at that point, I guess my thinking is that there will be fewer Citizens in that demographic, and that will make the funding of such programs a bit easier to manage.

I actually think those people might actually be MORE important, because for most of their lives, the Boomers have expected Medicare and Soc. Sec. payments as a budgeted part of their retirement incomes, and many of them have acted accordingly.

If my 12year old and her friends don't have those programs to rely on because we were ONLY thinking of getting through the Boomer retirement years, and fuck you, you're on your own if you're not one of them, that generation will work their whole life just to fund a non-poverty retirement after they can't work anymore. What will my daughter get to leave for HER kids?

again, sorry for not being more specific in my first remarks...
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