AARP Continues to Advocate Culture of Dependence

I apologize for so much off-topic blogging, but it just may continue so long as I see stuff like this: Smaller Fixes Could Bolster Social Security - AARP. I mean, you see a link like this and you just have to click on it. But before you do, let's play the Predict What the Article Will Say game.

If you were the AARP, responsible for making sure the government pays huge subsidies to America's top 40% age bracket, what do you think you would say about Social Security, the governments largest subsidy to America's top 40% age bracket. And consider that the current president is going around telling everyone that the program is going to run out of money in the coming decades. Well, let's see, you might say:

• There's hardly anything wrong with the current program
  
• Except it doesn't have enough money!!!

And that is exactly what the AARP has to say.

I f*cking hate the AARP when it comes to this sort of lobbying. How freaking ballsy it is to claim that the only problem with Social Security is that it doesn't have enough money. Duh!!! That IS the freaking problem -- Social Security is too expensive to maintain as is.

So, Chief Executive Officer William Novelli, please answer me the following:

Why is it fair that a person under 40 pay taxes on all of their income to support expanding benefits for older Americans?

• Considering that Americans are living longer and healthier, wouldn't it be fair to increase the age Americans are eligible to start receiving benefits?
  
• How about taking the average age of death for men and women, subtracting 12 years, and saying that is the age people can get benefits? Wouldn't that fairly introduce a degree of cost control to the system?
  
• What is the alternative -- just endlessly increasing funding as people live longer?
  
• Don't you think Social Security should adapt fairly for everyone involved -- both the people receiving benefits and those who are paying into the system?
  
• Do you think the example of other developed nations with more ambitious entitlement programs is something Americans should emulate or try and avoid?
  
• Do you realize that an average 30 year-old would have to pay about 25% of their income to Social Security taxes and into their own retirement savings in order to comfortably retire? Is this a good thing or a bad thing to you?
  
• Do you think that as medical procedures and drugs get more advanced and more expensive that Medicaid and Social Security should increase benefits at the same rate?
  
• Is there a quantitive standard of living and a quantitive baseline of medical care that AARP believe all retirees should get? What is it? For instance, should Medicaid pay for very advanced and cutting edge medical treatment?
  

I can't stand it. I think the nation's older segment is basically stealing from the rest of the country, and it's to the detriment of everyone. It is creating a culture of dependence, and that breeds stupidity and selfishness where otherwise rational people will vote for things that benefit themselves even though it obviously is unfair to other segments of the population. And the AARP is leading the way, ignoring all mathematics and demographic realities. AARP, don't you freaking get it? It's not about getting all you can. It's about getting what is just and what is fair. Didn't your parents teach you this when you were little?