Aunty,
I think you missed my point. It's not that the insurance was not earned. It was. The problem is that the generation making the promises cut all the corners towards funding those promises. This same generation is the same one that benefited (noice that I am not blaming them for it, just saying they benifitted) from building dams, clear cutting our forests, polluting our waters, not building adequate infrastucture and schools and otherwise raping the world. Now as this generations ages they continue to look at the next generation and complain about how lazly they are and how they need to work harder to fix the problems. From impact fees to increased social security taxes, more and more of the burden is being passed on. In the history of the world, I do not think there had ever been a generation of people who have left their children with a future that is has less potential. Of course, they still think its their lazy childrens fault. I know someone of this generation that was raised in welfare and after working several years, was injured and moved onto SSI and other government programs. As a child she lived in a house with no running water and little food. Society and its programs now provide her with better medical than I can afford, a very nice apartment with a fireplace, community pool and club house, cable tv, a old but usable car, and enough food to easily survive. It is my beleif that all of the baby boomer generation had life style increases similar that were simply afforded by living during this time period. Now that it is time to pay the piper, they are all trying to find some way to pass the burden on to their children.