11/17   Dean is supposed to be pro-worker/pro-union, but he wants to raise
        the retirement age to 70. how is that pro-worker? -dem
        \_ Well, it kinda screws the baby boomers, but in return you don't have
           to raise taxes on current workers as much to pay for baby boomer's
           returements.  It's kinda fair in a way.  The boomers paid low SS
           taxes because they only had to support the previous generation.
           If we want to give them the same benefits their parents got, the
           gen-X and later workers will have to pay a higher SS tax than the
           boomers paid.
           \_ there aren't as many genxers but there's a lot of echo boomers.
              let the echo boomers pay for their parents but keep my taxes
              low since all i got from the baby boomers was fucked.  -genxer
              \_ hmm... you like them old ladies do you?
              \_ You know there could never be an age-based tax like that. The
                 closest you could get would be raising taxes later... which is
                 probably what will happen.
                 \_ Yeah I know it but I can hope.  A constitutional convention
                    could change the rules to make it ok.  "And we hereby
                    decree that the genxers with the help of the feeble minded
                    drug addled, poorly raised echo boomers shall fuck the
                    baby boomers who did so much damage to this country and
                    gave nothing in return".  It could happen.  I have hope.
                 \_ fucking old people, leaving deficits for me. i say kill off
                    social security. damn reagan worshipping bitches.
                    \_ Eli, is that you?
                    \_ reagan?  what's he got to do with it?
           \_ There are trillions of baby boomers. So if it screws them, how is
                he gonna get elected?
              \_ He's not going to get elected anyway so it's academic.
                 \_ And he has a "A" rating from the NRA. Which makes him
                    easily the coolest Democrat.