Should GenX enslave the Baby Boomers to pay off the national debt?
456576
... in five years this could be a viable platform for the presidency...
336767
I would "recall" all debts owed to the US.Inflation would be erased.
430940
There should be no exceptions. Period. I say round up the ones who are here and ship them back to where they came from. They are a drain on our economy. I see them all the time sending most of their paycheck back to their families in Mexico. They live 20 or so to a house, so it's not like they're helping the real estate market. They're digging through dumpsters behind the grocery store adn the thrift store, looking for usable food and clothes. They're riding bicycles. Get rid of them and close the borders.
346998
The almighty dollar is more important now than what will happen in the future.\n\nIt's like the oil companies.  We'll be out of oil in 50-60 years, but right now, we can make money off of it, and we'll just let the younger generation take care of it.\n\nWell, I AM the younger generation.  About the time I retire, the world will have almost NO oil left.  That will be a catostrophic event.  Homes will go cold, tractors will not run, and no one will be able to get to work.  They need to fix this now.\n\nIt's the same with Global Warming.  Except it's a LITTLE further off...hopefully.\n\nI'm sorry for getting a little off topic.  I;'m using it as a point, and I hope everyone understands.  I'm not one of these crazy, neo-enviromentalists; I actually am interested in politics.  And all this has to do with politics.
354443
I'm a baby boomer and I completely agree with you. What you didn't mention is that we are probably one of the single most self centered and selfish generations around. You can thank the poor educational system, widespread family breakdowns, multigenerational welfare families, and various unwinable wars on us and our refusal to acknowledge reality. Good luck. You'll need it.
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Before the baby boomers came along, "Middle Class Values" principally revolved around the idea that if you were the head of a household you would work your tail off, save money, and give your kids every chance at success so that THEY could have better lives than you did.\n\nThe baby boom generation turned this on its head - they've worshipped the god of instant self-gratification above all else for so long that they can't even see that their efforts to get Hunter and Madison into the best possible school (on any scholarship they can cheat their way into, so they don't have to borrow too much more against their McMansion) are all about using their children to prove to their friends and neighbors how superior THEY are.  \n\nThis is the generation that has engaged in the greatest transfer of wealth from future generations (seen the Federal debt lately?  Who's gonna pay interest on THAT, I wonder?) in order to have everything for themselves, never caring a rat's a*s*s about anyone else.\n\nThat's middle class values today, folks: "I, me, mine."
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This pic sums up all that is wrong wiv da plastic gangsta, Corsa soupin, 2 carat gold dripping, shop liftin TWOCers we have to support when we pay our taxes.\n\nThey are SCUM who choose to live this way, freeloading and dragging down society. I do have the right to judge, I pay for their life style for the first 7 days I go to work every fuggin month.\nThey should be sent to Norwich, but it's full already!
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The one thing you are not factoring into your formula are the billions upon billions of investment dollars that the Boomers will soon be drawing out of retirement accounts. Most of that money will be taxable.\n\nBesides that fact, social security is not something guaranteed under the Constitution and should be done away with. The 10th Amendment states:\n\n"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."\n\nSocial security was an ill-thought out program rushed through Congress with FDR's New Deal. Many of the problems we face as a nation have their roots in the New Deal. Any governmental program that is based on open or enforced enrollment is doomed to fail at some point - the rolls just grow too large for the base to handle.\n\nWhat this country needs to do is teach people fiscal responsibility and how to prepare for their own retirement. PRIVATIZING social security is the first step. The program that was suggested was a mirror image of the Thrift Savings Plan (TSP) available to every Federal government employee. I have two such accounts (one for my civilian job and one for my National Guard job), and BOTH accounts have grown by an average of 60% over the last two years. They do not allow people to invest in whatever they want - contrary to what the Democrats and liberals would have you believe. They consist of five very structured mutual funds based on market indexes. If it is good enough for the President and for Congress, it is good enough for me.\n\nPhasing it in - as was proposed - is the right answer, too. It allows people to keep receiving social security benefits but eventually weans people off of the government rolls.\n\nThe irony of liberals and Democrats not supporting privatized social security is this: They are the first ones that claim you cannot trust the government, yet they want the entire nation to trust the government with their retirement.
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To be honest I think most Blacks are looking for pay back, I heard some say innocent whites need to be kill just as innocent black were. Yes blacks need equality but lets be honest giving blacks equality doesn't offset over 300 years of oppression and struggle. On paper all people need equal rights seems fine, but look deeper into this issue, you will find that the black race deserves much more than equal rights. \n\nWhen Blacks were first "bought" (not sold) into slavery they were oppress from the time they were "purchase," not sold to whites. You can't sell nothing if no one is WILLING to buy it. Blacks were oppress from the time they got own until the time Dr. King died in 1968, by whites not Africans. Is giving the black race equal rights make right all the oppression they face?\n\nHow can 400 years of oppression which include segregation be made OK by giving them equality? Will equality fix or bring justice to the Millions America kill unjustified. Will equality fix or bring justice to tens of thousand that were lynch during the early 1900's. What about their lost knowledge of a language, religion, culture and customs? Will Brown was shoot over 1000 times beaten , then burned alive. These things did not happen in ancient times but in my and my parents generation. We were oppress so we couldn't vote this was only the 60's. So the ones who were slaves could not get anything for their misfortune because they had no rights to back then. Equal rights could not repay all that was done against the Black race. So in reality the two groups will never be equal one side had 300+ years of struggle and robbery while the other had/has 300+ years of privilege and benefits and the expense of one group, not just from free labor but from being on the side of the oppressors. That in it's self gave you privilege.\n\nTruth is the people who would have inherited the money their father SHOULD have got are still here. Just as the people and nation who inherited that borrow wealth, is still here, and the wealth is still here. So if Blacks got paid for that wealth they would have left their descendants with something rather than a spirit of poverty. As a result 70% of elderly blacks have no  financial assets. Which is a direct result form segregation design to keep the wealth in the white community and keep blacks from the houses, shools, and inherited wealth they help build for the white community. It's never to late to do what rights, however reparation will divide the country.\n\nBlacks don't need reparations but equality, and as I said equality is not giving blacks equal rights. Truthfully all the things the white race did or has done against the black race most surely can not be repaid with equality, neither can it be repaid with all the wealth this nation has.
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As the baby-boomer generation comes closer to retirement age world wide the governments are asking themselves where is the money going to come from for that bill.  Illegals take more out in entitlements than they pay in with taxes.\n\nGranted if we don't figure out how to change the economics of Renewable Energy we will have the economy of 1850 by the year 2050.
1088770
Pay off all your debt?
726630
Um, Rod T, you do realise that you're talking about things that happened many generations ago?! How can you suggest that people nowadays deserve to pay for what their ancestors did way back then? That's ridiculous. \n\nAre you American? If so, with that logic, you would deserve to have some people come and "discover" your country, steal your food and take over your land completely, banishing you to little reservations in the desert.
654020
YES!!! they do nothing but suck money from the people of the United Kingdom so that they can continue their lavish lifestyle at the commoners expense
1144771
NO WAY! The govt should tax it to help pay the country's debt.
744555
No...Debt is debt, and it should ALWAYS be repaid.
454829
hey thanks for the answer/question ha ha\nNo but i really think they'll think wow those people really screwed us. Because the future will have to deal with all these enviormental and political issues. And hey who cares right now? Well I'll tell you who the future our children and grand children so suck it up and be good to mother nature!
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No and why would they? America had companies that slave labored their people and polluted the land. They then abandoned the Mexicans for Chinese Communist workers at half the price they paid the Mexicans.