Yeah, you!
I’m talking to those of you who’ve swallowed the lie that you “will never see a dime of Social Security” and are sitting on your hands instead of doing everything you can to protect it.
You need to take a second and listen up.
When your next door neighbor or your co-worker or your Congressman or Senator or even your President starts making noises about reducing Social Security or Medicare benefits, or raising the eligibility age, or imposing a voucher program for Medicare in place of the system that now takes care of every senior in the country, remember that they are talking about taking away the most successful poverty prevention program in the history of the United States.
If that isn’t enough for you and you think protecting Social Security doesn’t have a thing to do with you, answer me this:
Do you want your parents moving in with you?
Because that is what you are looking at if Social Security and Medicare go away. When your parents have no retirement income or are bankrupted by medical bills where do you think they’re going to go?
Don’t get me wrong. You may love your parents with all your heart, but honestly, come on! Do you really want them moving in with you?
You might want to think about that. Let your imagination run free. Let it sink in.
Think about being a teenager in their house. Wasn’t a bed of roses was it?
And now you’re all grown up. You’re making your own money. Paying your way. You’ve got your own circle of friends. You’ve made some decisions about how you want to run your life.
Now.
Imagine your parents hanging around when you want to have a bunch of friends over for a night of loud music and booze.
What about when you want a romantic evening with your significant other? No more living room sex for you!
Do you relish the thought of your mom or dad telling you how to raise your kids? How to balance your checkbook? Questioning your expenditures? Telling you what you should cook and how you should cook it? how to properly mow the lawn? Organize the refrigerator? Asking you why you haven’t _______________ yet?
Yeah, that’s what I thought.
And I’ll tell you what, I don’t want to live with my kids any more than they want to live with me. We all like our independence too much. And we want to stay independent for as long as we possibly can.
So if you don’t want to be stuck with us then, you might want to stick with us now and help us fight to save Social Security.
I have never heard a 30-something Democrat talk like that.
But I’ve heard plenty of 30-something fools who aren’t rich enough to be Republicans but – either wildly underestimating how rich that is or stupidly confident they’ll hit the powerball – think they will be, some day, and have already taken sides.
Exactly. And they don’t give a damn about the rest of their friends and family who, even if they do make it, will be left in the gutter.