>>>I have heard you say this on more than one occasion but I can tell you that it sure isn't Andy or me. Both of us are close to 65 and neither of us have taken one single penny out of the public purse
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>Quoting Trump's favorite Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/11/05/baby-boomers-are-whats-wrong-with-americas-economy/
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>Your generation has bequeathed to the young not an America better than you received it, but massive federal debt including a $47T Medicare deficit as well as massively improved costs with salaries that did not follow suit. The citation has references, including a study claiming that boomers will such another $200K from Medicare and Social Security than they paid in. The article also confirms your observation that boomer incomes went up nicely before retirement, thanks very much. But that does not make it OK for much of the middle class whose incomes do not match the bumper bills they face for their own consumption- and that's before they start paying for yours. Even if you're yet to draw on Medicare, that $47T is the result of tax savings for you rather than fairly underwriting your generation's predictable future costs. All boomers are beneficiaries of the decision to be grasshoppers during a period when asset appreciation would have left the fund flush with assets to pay health benefits forever. I keep pointing to the Australian super scheme: had your generation been as willing as the Aussie taxpayers to be ants rather than grasshoppers, an equivalent US fund would be bulging with trillions of dollars in assets and the nation could have swatted away with its little fingernail, the attempt by greedy bankers to destroy the whole economy to enrich themselves. The benefit fund would be the gorilla in the room capable of seeing off any financial schemer wanting to gouge the American dollar or economy in exchange for nothing of value. Instead the baton you pass includes unbelievable debt including a $47T Medicare deficit to cover the care you intend to consume... and then you pretend you can't understand why the recipients of your wonderful gift, can't match your financial prowess! Perhaps they should - an equally selfish response would be to stop contributing to your Medicare costs for a start, and then see if they can match your financial prowess...


The 1999 Camry my grandson drives cost me about $23K.
I can buy the equivalent 2017 model, vastly improved in every way, for $23K.
I can buy a TV of much higher quality than the TV I bought in 1999 for about the same price.
Gasoline is cheaper now that it was then.

Without looking it up, I think I'd be safe in saying that overall health care costs have more than doubled during that period.

Last week I paid a thief posing as a dentist $1235 to spend an hour on one tooth.

Last year a hospital stay and drugs while I was dealing with pneumonia cost Medicare $35K.

One study showed that hospital administrative costs consumed 58% of overall hospital revenue.
I have pointed out repeatedly how political hacks like Michelle Obama are paid hundreds of thousands of dollars by hospitals.

Do you really want to point at the victims of these thieves as the cause of the Medicare mess?