Has principled conservative Mitt Romney got a point? He is being the adult in the room by the sounds of it, telling the unpopular truth that we all need to hear.
“For younger people coming along, we got to be able to find a way to balance these programs or we’re gonna find ourselves in a heap of trouble,” he said. He added that he was not in favour of raising taxes as a way of balancing the books, but was open to adjusting “long-term benefits not for current retirees”.
Romney’s remarks, first reported by Business Insider, open a can of worms often avoided by members of Congress given its intense political sensitivities. The programs in question include two of the most popular benefits in the country – social security and Medicare, which make up more than 40% of government spending.
The backdrop to the issue is America’s ageing population. By 2034 projections suggest there will be 77 million Americans aged 65 and older – more than the projected 76.5 million under 18s.
That means that for the first time in US history older people will outnumber children.
It's the old people who did t pay for theirs and cut taxes and ran up leave deficits. The old people who benefited from all that fiscal wrecklessness are the one who need their benefits cuts
Zachary Nguyen
THE ETERNAL BOOMER
BUT EVERYONE KNOWS SOCIAL SECURITY WAS ALREADY INSOLVENT YEARS AGO
Jose White
We're not going to retire anyways there is no fucking need for a discussion about this.
any millennial or younger who thinks their retirement benefits they paid for will be there when they retire is delusional or retarded. or both.
the best thing you can do is dekike yourself right now. stop putting shit into a 401k or whatever faggotry. stop paying taxes. max out deductions for your IRS form w4 so they dont take anything out of your paycheck. that way you can skip paying anything at the end of the year, and put all your money into assets off the record like precious metals. DEKIKE your banking habits, remove your money from kike banks and keep it at home or put it in a less kiked credit union. try to keep as little cash as possible and focus on keeping mobile liquid assets which can be hidden and moved easily like precious metals. on paper, you should look like a poorfag. apply for maximum govt benefits for welfare, food, medicare, whatever it is get your gibbs. the republic wont be around in 10 years we are in the looting phase now so get what you can before it all burns down
Bentley Rodriguez
>the most hated cuckservative never trumper is "typical" lol he's a democrat
Brayden Martin
This is how you lose elections to democrats. Romney needs to be expelled from the republican party.
Bentley Cox
we'll be dealing with a satanic world government before any of you fucks are within 20 years of "retirement age" so dont you worry
Carter White
didnt he get voted out? wtf ? shut up nigger . this is like that photo of abe from japan shaking hands with moody who gives a shit he isnt pm of japan anymore
Jacob Clark
>"we didnt save up and companies dont want to pay for old people any more so now you have to pay for old people to not die" >requires more people in next generation to support previous >insist on unsustainable growth to continue paying for it >imports niggers when population stips rising insanely >an even larger generation requires even more growth >system becomes unsustainable as was predicted >"you now have to pay more and will get less because we dont want to admit this system failed and we feel owed what we were forced to pay" Why do we keep allowing this scam to continue?
Carter Sullivan
spbp
Ryan Gonzalez
This is why I've always wanted to opt out of social security entirely. Why the fuck would I pay into something that won't be there when I'm old and decrepit?
Jack Hernandez
With conservatives it's either the schizos that should be in mental asylums, (the majority) or the ones that just exist solely to make rich people's lives more like heaven every day.
Ayden Jenkins
>zoomers >retirement
Lol. Lmao.
Robert Butler
I want to cut retirement benefits to current boomers. The Boomer problem would just work itself out naturally.
Alexander Scott
The sad thing is, because of population decline + the fact it’s gonna be harder to get productivity up (compare how much time and labor computers saved), millennials and zoomers are fucked. You’re really gonna see shit 20-30 years from now as boomers and gen xers die off or retire.
China basically has peaked in terms of cheap labor and they have 4 grandparents for every 1 grandchild. Let that sink in. We’ll probably enter some sort of neo-feudalism.
Zachary Butler
I'll never forgive these pieces of shit for what they've done.
Dominic Green
If this shit keeps up, it's not culture wars or race wars these faggots need to worry about, it's Gen X/Millenials/Zoomers deciding they're fed up and just going out and smothering all the Boomers in their sleep.
Angel Robinson
Big if true
Thomas Nguyen
At the same time they say AI + machines will vipe out 40% of all jobs in next 20 years.
Aiden Wright
Kek for a zoomer to get 'retirement' you'd have to qualify for disability
Julian Barnes
With liberal progressives it's either the faggots making the public a mental asylum, (the minority) or the ones that just exist solely to make middle class people's live more unbearable by the day. Fuck you.
Christopher Wood
Oh no you sure showed them. They don't give a fuck.
