re: #220 GeneJockey

Seriously. Regarding the first, I’ve already heard that from at least one guy, whose attitude was “I paid for it, Ive got it coming. You don’t.” I explained to him that, since he started working before Medicare was enacted, and before the 1983 increase in Social Security taxes, I will have paid a lot more as a percentage of my total earnings than he did.

He shut up.

Regarding the second, see Paul Ryan’s first ‘Budget’.

The depressing thing for me is that all my retirement planning assumes that I won’t get any Social Security. I probably should start assuming no Medicare either, but I don’t want to think about that yet.