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Spitfire of ATJ

(32,723 posts) Fri Sep 21, 2012, 05:13 AM Sep 2012

Do you recall when everybody was talking about the baby boomers retiring? [View all]

I do.

A massive wave of people are entering retirement right now.

And how are Republicans reacting? Well, apart from waking in a cold sweat over America becoming a "welfare state" they are railing about a "sense of entitlement" and saying moochers don't have a right to food.

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Do you recall when everybody was talking about the baby boomers retiring? [View all] Spitfire of ATJ Sep 2012 OP

I got news for them, they can call B Calm Sep 2012 #1

Precisely Sherman A1 Sep 2012 #2

Even those who didn't tavalon Sep 2012 #3

They roll the word entitlement off their B Calm Sep 2012 #5

But we are entitled. Our veterans are entitled to care and our gratitude, we are entitled jtuck004 Sep 2012 #6

Even housewives who have never worked outside the home are able to get benefits. Spitfire of ATJ Sep 2012 #23

The Term "Entitlement" Has Been Hijacked ProfessorGAC Sep 2012 #8

Exactly freedom fighter jh Sep 2012 #17

It's not an "entitlement". It's one of the "benefits" of being an American. Spitfire of ATJ Sep 2012 #22

+10000 liberal N proud Sep 2012 #12

If Bush had had his way, everyone on SS would have been wiped out Hubert Flottz Sep 2012 #4

Do you remember the 2000 debates? VWolf Sep 2012 #20

Why yes, yes I do jeaps Sep 2012 #7

"I remember the hike in SS tax to cover the looming wave of retirees." woo me with science Sep 2012 #11

That just pisses me off to no end ... Cosmocat Sep 2012 #13

Yep, I remember that too......... socialist_n_TN Sep 2012 #18

"So what happened to that money again?" Spitfire of ATJ Sep 2012 #25

"Retire and get PAID for NO WORK? Turning 65 is a poor excuse for picking a man's pocket!" tclambert Sep 2012 #9

The rigged system King_Klonopin Sep 2012 #10

This actually is a good part of the entrenched unemployment that we now have Cosmocat Sep 2012 #14

Kucinich suggested lowering the retirement age to 50 to open up jobs for younger workers. Spitfire of ATJ Sep 2012 #26

Romney wants to redistribute your payroll taxes to the rich via tax cuts Martin Eden Sep 2012 #15

You actually want us to retire quaker bill Sep 2012 #16

Congress has a nerve to talk about ENTITLEMENTS? socialindependocrat Sep 2012 #19

why that`s me they are talking about so... madrchsod Sep 2012 #21

Yep. n/t porphyrian Sep 2012 #24