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Old 01-13-2015, 04:36 PM
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Originally Posted by B767drvr View Post
Social security and medicare are the biggest drivers of the federal budget. Social security became law in 1935 (boomers definitely not to blame - weren't even born yet.) Medicare became law in 1966 (boomers were children - not the politicians that voted for it.)

If you Google the Greediest generation the results will point to the Boomers and not the parents of the Boomers who are called the Greatest Generation as someone else suggested earlier.

Maybe wording the sentence that way makes the point I was trying to make.