Reply #17: I'm in the first of the Boomers and I'm pissed! It's too late for us

[SharonAnn]

to do any significant "saving" since we have few years left before forced retirement and our companies have cut and will continue cutting all of the retiree benefits that they can. So we need Medicare and Prescription Drug Coverage and we will have it!

We are a "huge" voting block and if we think we're being ripped off there will be hell to pay. We expect benefits at least equal to what we received in the workplace (thanks to the benefits that unions won for all of us), not less. So, bankrupting Medicare, Prescription Drug Plans with "Donut Holes", and forcing us into limited HMO's isn't going to cut it. Sorry, we're just not that stupid.

And they say we'll be passing the debt on to our children. There's money available and we don't have to do without. There's no reason, for example, that capital gains and dividends should be taxed less than Earned Income, income that one has to actually WORK to obtain.

Novelli isn't a Boomer and he's just as clueless about us as other older generations have been. I don't know what it is about those who came before us but they just don't "get us". We've paid more into Social Security and Medicare than any other group AND we've put extra into Social Security to cover ourselves (the first generation to do so). There will be hell to pay and if Novelli thinks he's going to manipulate us, he's nuts! We're a steam roller and since I'm the "bleeding edge" of the group, I usually figure out what's happening way before anyone else does. So, trust me, we won't be lying down and letting them roll over us! No way!