COLA for Those Entitled

I realize I will sound like a disrespectful baby boomer and frankly, I just don't care anymore. I'm sick of the idealized American history and I'm truly sick of the fact that every generation tells it like they want it to be remembered, but has nothing to do with reality. And I'm sick of anti immigration e-mails from people who don't work. This coming year marks the first year of the boomers to reach 62 years of age. This is how the boomers will really break the establishment, when the majority collects! But the establishment won't really care, as they have already enjoyed the power of being old. That's right, mere age has established this "right." I cannot believe, for the life of me, just how many Americans choose to set for themselves a date or time in which they want to be paid to be unproductive and have actually twisted the facts in their own minds enough to convince themselves they have earned it. They believe it is their right. Check the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Being paid to be useless is not one of the rights of an American, unless of course that goes into the category of the right to the pursuit of happiness . . .
When Social Security was first established it was for all those abandoned on the farm, while their sons and daughters moved on to an easier life without looking back. And that generation that left the farm is the generation that continues to collect today, claiming to have "paid into it." And along side, collecting are their older children repeating the mantra they have heard all their lives. But wait. The first generation that collected didn't pay in, the first generation to pay in, didn't pay in for their own collection, but rather established pensions and retirement plans, because Social Security was not created to be a retirement plan. Now we have some third generation collectors already on the dole, with their pensions and investments and for some, the boomers will be the third generation of Americans to believe they have earned the right to be paid to do nothing, and in some families, the fourth to collect. I read about the first boomer to sign up and she sounds like everyone else that "has it coming" . . . America, the land of entitlement.
Let me give you a bit of American history that you probably won't read anywhere else. The people on the farms before and through the depression worked hard. Tractors weren't abundant and families were large, and they had it better than the pioneers, and the pioneers had it better than the colonists, and they all had it better than the Native Americans ended up. But the young generation that left the farms in the 30's have had it easier than any generation in America ever did or ever will. They didn't have to have two incomes to survive as their grandchildren do. Just as the conveniences were arriving, they were on to greener pastures, which was not pasture at all, but city concrete. They had much smaller families to tend to and most managed to do very well for themselves . . . and they inherited the farms that they had left, which sold for a pretty penny and didn't interfere with pensions and Social Security. And now they are receiving a Cost Of Living Allowance which is a greater percentage than their withholding ever was.
And we wonder why the budget can't be balanced. How many generations of Americans can't or just won't do simple math?
In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground . . . Torah of Holy Scripture