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To: Broken_Clock who wrote (90379)	9/24/2007 9:04:52 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

agreed but you aren't going to get any sympathy from the young, is my point. Your entitlement mentality is like a glaring neon sign on your forehead. typical retiree. Stop milking the system like its your god given right, and expecting the younger generation to provide for you.

To: Broken_Clock who wrote (90379)	9/27/2007 10:27:59 PM
From: Fiscally Conservative	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

The larger point here is understanding how so many 'Wall street types' want our young to start paying into a self managed program of varying mutual funds thereby redirecting a portion therein of those FICA payments to Wall St. No one bothers to discuss where the lack of those would be FICA contributions into the current system would come from should any portion thereof be redirected into any self managing individual accounts. In a nutshell,it would further create a larger deficit in the system for those currently collecting, mainly those already retired. The idea that any current retiree should be ashamed of feeling they should be entitled to the very system they paid into over their working years is nuts. Those who retired and are now receiving SS should be entitled to every penny and all adjustments for inflation. A nation ingreed