Me too. Only I'd like my money back, that is to say the 15% of my salary that's been taken from me for Social Security and Medicare all of my working life of 40-plus years, plus interest. Of course, I can't have that because the kleptocracy raided the trust fund a long time ago.
EDIT: Thank you for not suggesting, as a Facebook contact did, that Nat Henthoff (who is of course pre-boomer in case you're not familiar with him) should don a tin-foil helmet for disagreeing with the Obama health care plan. He's been speaking truth to power since 1958 and doesn't deserve that kind of derision.
We can also thank our friends in power any time from, say, 1980 to now for kicking this particular can down the road for so long. Anyone with half a brain could see that the system would not support a huge age cohort through two decades of life and would have adjusted the retirement ages accordingly. It makes no sense for me to retire at 65 when my family history suggests I'll be able to work till 70 or 75 with no loss of faculties.
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EDIT: Thank you for not suggesting, as a Facebook contact did, that Nat Henthoff (who is of course pre-boomer in case you're not familiar with him) should don a tin-foil helmet for disagreeing with the Obama health care plan. He's been speaking truth to power since 1958 and doesn't deserve that kind of derision.
We can also thank our friends in power any time from, say, 1980 to now for kicking this particular can down the road for so long. Anyone with half a brain could see that the system would not support a huge age cohort through two decades of life and would have adjusted the retirement ages accordingly. It makes no sense for me to retire at 65 when my family history suggests I'll be able to work till 70 or 75 with no loss of faculties.