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#51
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Rasputin_Vol said:
Oh, it most certainly isn't. When the people that turn the wrenches and make the widgets are the ones making the sacrifices.

My gawd you have all of the qualities of a boomer. You simply hate workers.
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They don't make the sacrifices. The cut backs are in the white collar jobs. Unions get concessions on labor. Execs get bigger bonuses. Middle level white collar jobs get cut.
 
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#52
Rasputin_Vol said:
Oh, it most certainly isn't. When the people that turn the wrenches and make the widgets are the ones making the sacrifices.

My gawd you have all of the qualities of a boomer. You simply hate workers.
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Yeah, because I never worked in my life ... just like the rest of the boomers obviously. Do you really think boomers never went through any trying times? Try buying a house when interest rates are 11% or more vs what they are now. There's a reason a lot of us despise Carter and all that happened under his tenure. We've seen retirement plans emptied more than once.
 
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82_VOL_83 said:
Keep paying your taxes **** head. I'm getting ready to retire. I am going to be the most progressive liberal SOB you have ever seen just so that I can grab more of your $$$.
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Going to be? Boomers have taken more than they have given since 1946. They are the face of redistribution of wealth.
 
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Rasputin_Vol said:
Going to be? Boomers have taken more than they have given since 1946. They are the face of redistribution of wealth.
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So which class of people did the boomers take their wealth from starting in 1946? Their parents and grandparents were dirt poor. They built the wealth that you and your family has enjoyed.
 
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Rasputin_Vol said:
Going to be? Boomers have taken more than they have given since 1946. They are the face of redistribution of wealth.
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Another of those inflationary gifts that keep giving. We paid SS tax on much lower income than people are paying in for comparable jobs today, so with cost of living adjustments and inflation in wages/salaries over the years, there's no doubt you are subsidizing us. Just like we did our parents, and if you don't screw it all up, just like your children will do the same for you. BTW my generation paid for SS benefits to recipients (like our grandparents) who never paid into the system during all or part of their working years because SS came along late in life for them. My grandparents were born before 1900, my parents in the very early 1920s, and I am an original boomer from 1946. Tame inflation and we would all be getting SS payments much more commensurate with what we pay in.

For the record my starting salary in 1976 - an engineer with a MS in Nuclear Engineering was something like $17K, and I happen to remember my new 1973 Pinto (with lots of extras) was $3003. That should tell you a little bit about how screwed we are by inflation. I've watched the wage/price spiral all my working life, and all I can show for it is higher tax brackets and imported goods because we priced ourselves out of business.
 
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AM64 said:
Another of those inflationary gifts that keep giving. We paid SS tax on much lower income than people are paying in for comparable jobs today, so with cost of living adjustments and inflation in wages/salaries over the years, there's no doubt you are subsidizing us. Just like we did our parents, and if you don't screw it all up, just like your children will do the same for you. BTW my generation paid for SS benefits to recipients (like our grandparents) who never paid into the system during all or part of their working years because SS came along late in life for them. My grandparents were born before 1900, my parents in the very early 1920s, and I am an original boomer from 1946. Tame inflation and we would all be getting SS payments much more commensurate with what we pay in. For the record my starting salary in 1976 - an engineer with a MS in Nuclear Engineering was something like $17K, and I happen to remember my new 1973 Pinto (with lots of extras) was $3003. That should tell you a little bit about how screwed we are by inflation.
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Screw SS. You deserve a combat medal.

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AM64 said:
Another of those inflationary gifts that keep giving. We paid SS tax on much lower income than people are paying in for comparable jobs today, so with cost of living adjustments and inflation in wages/salaries over the years, there's no doubt you are subsidizing us. Just like we did our parents, and if you don't screw it all up, just like your children will do the same for you. BTW my generation paid for SS benefits to recipients (like our grandparents) who never paid into the system during all or part of their working years because SS came along late in life for them. My grandparents were born before 1900, my parents in the very early 1920s, and I am an original boomer from 1946. Tame inflation and we would all be getting SS payments much more commensurate with what we pay in.

For the record my starting salary in 1976 - an engineer with a MS in Nuclear Engineering was something like $17K, and I happen to remember my new 1973 Pinto (with lots of extras) was $3003. That should tell you a little bit about how screwed we are by inflation. I've watched the wage/price spiral all my working life, and all I can show for it is higher tax brackets and imported goods because we priced ourselves out of business.
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An engineer buying a Pinto seems so contradictory.
 
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