Next Election, Don’t Count on the Seniors

Well I said before my mom, dad, and step mom, uncle and aunt wouldn't vote for him if he was the only one running. (3 of them are die hard democrats)

archer wrote: I think you will find that seniors are more concerned about SS and Medicare being there for their children and grandchildren than they are concerned about losing their own benefits. They know, better than anyone how valuable those programs are in their own lives.

Then the pushing granny off the cliff commercial was BS right? I agree that seniors also care greatlty about the future generations; I also know that most seniors can still do the math and see that great changes need to be made if there will be anything at all left 20 years from now.

CriticalBill wrote:

archer wrote: I think you will find that seniors are more concerned about SS and Medicare being there for their children and grandchildren than they are concerned about losing their own benefits. They know, better than anyone how valuable those programs are in their own lives.

Then the pushing granny off the cliff commercial was BS right? I agree that seniors also care greatlty about the future generations; I also know that most seniors can still do the math and see that great changes need to be made if there will be anything at all left 20 years from now.

Most of us seniors remember graduating from college in the 60's, going to work and being told to save for retirement because Social Security will be bankrupt in 20 years and will not be there for us. Well we, as a generation, did save, and did retire, and wonder of wonders....Social Security is still here. It's been tweaked a few times, and I expect it will be tweaked many more, but any party, or candidate that says it's going away, or insults seniors by calling it a ponzi scheme and should never have been created, will pay at the voting booth for that folly.

archer, missing a forecast date doesn't mean something isn't true.

HEARTLESS wrote: archer, missing a forecast date doesn't mean something isn't true.

Missing a forecast date by 25 years might indicate that your premise was wrong. In any business that would for sure get you fired.

:rofl

Who told you that it would fail in the 60s?

II think you need to look at the baby boom numbers combined with a future stagnant economy, combined with debt that's choking us, to really understand how serious the problem is. It may not have been set up as a ponzi scheme, but it does have the key ingredients like needing fesh funds to pay off old obligations...it can't go that way much longer. You should also consider how little the benefits will be as the dollar keeps being killed by the fed.

Social Security has been robbed with the hope of being able to make it up in the future. We're all suppose to trust the government to guard those funds for us and they consitently let us down.

Maybe that should be, who in the 60s told you it would fail in the 80s?

Hello?

Ever since I was an elementary kid in the 70's, I was told it would fail. And I was told in the 80's in college that sooner you started saving the less you had to worry about Social Security failing.
Personally I believe it will always be there. Who wants to be the party that leaves granny without heat and food? Plus senior citizens vote.

What might save it? The obesity epidemic! If you die of a heart attack or diabetes at 55 or 60, it will leave that much more money for the skinny folk. Some medical people believe Generation X & Y will have shorter life spans than the baby boomers.