Was it justifiable for the baby boom and their elders, to promise themselves tens of trillions of unfunded benefits, like Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, for future generations to pay for?

Why would some of one generation

want to covertly confiscate another’s wealth?

 

It is grossly irresponsible for the baby boom generation

 to expect Generations X and Y

 to be saddled with our national debt,

 our trade debt, and our infrastructure debt,

and the retirement debt created by baby boomers

enjoying long retirements supported by future tax increases

on their children.

 

Rob Atkinson

The Atlantic

If workers earn, pay taxes, spend, save and invest,

while retirees divest, downsize, budget

and draw income and healthcare benefits, 

what’s going to happen when more retirees want

what fewer workers may not be able to deliver?

 

Are Baby Boomers going to get more or less than they think

if the supply of what they want to sell exceeds demand,

as they exchange assets for needed goods and services

at relatively the same time?

 

Loss is nothing else but change,

 and change is Nature's delight.

 

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus

Roman Emperor