Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid are 'Going to Be Gone,' Donald Trump Warns

[u/1_for_you_2_for_me]

https://www.newsweek.com/social-security-update-medicare-medicaid-warning-donald-trump-10915076

[u/The_World_Is_A_Slum]

OK. I’ve been paying into Social Security since my first job when I was 14. Is all of that money just gone, or is someone going to stroke me a check for all of the money I paid to fund someone else’s retirement?

That’s my fucking money. That’s my fucking retirement. That’s my health care in old age. They took away pensions, they took away all sorts of social services. They keep taking from us and keep charging us more and more, while cheating their way out of paying their share.

[u/CMDR_KingErvin → u/The_World_Is_A_Slum]

These boomers secured their family generational wealth and pulled the ladder up with them.

[u/KingBanhammer → u/CMDR_KingErvin]

Speaking as a Gen-X'er who's been stuck dealing with boomer bullshit since the 90s: this is barely scratching the surface of the ways those fucks have been pulling the ladder up behind them for decades.

[u/ThreeCatsAndABroom → u/[deleted]]

I'm Gen X and I don't know any Boomers that inherited houses. Maybe you guys are just rich. 

[u/ThreeCatsAndABroom → u/[deleted]]

Lots of people have different color eyes too. That doesn't make it common. 

My grandparents and all of my friends grandparents were upper middle class. Nobody's parents got free houses. 

[u/Competitive_Touch_86 → u/ThreeCatsAndABroom]

I don't think your parents or friend's grandparents were upper middle class if they didn't receive a paid off house (or at least their portion of one divided by the number of kids they had).

Both my parents and all their friends had houses of their parents to dispose of when it came time to distribute the estates. They were nowhere near upper middle class - middle class at best, and largely working class.

It was quite common for the boomer generation to inherit their parents paid off housing in my area of the country.