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Re:The Pension Hole for U.S. Cities and States Is the Size o... by sushid on Monday July 30, 2018 @05:15PM (#17648107)
It's nice for the previous generations that got something out of nothing.

Too bad that "nothing" is my generation and we'll be putting our "contributions" into a pit that will give us actually nothing in return when it's time for us to retire.

As I get older I realize why people say if you're not a liberal at 20, you have no heart but if you are not a conservative by 30, you have no brain (or something to that effect).

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Re:The Pension Hole for U.S. Cities and States Is the Size o... by lovich on Monday July 30, 2018 @05:37PM (#17648292)
The previous generations are far more conservative than our generation and they are still all for these sort of entitlements. This is not a liberal vs conservative argument, this is a "fuck you, I got mine" argument from the beneficiaries of these pensions currently
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Re:The Pension Hole for U.S. Cities and States Is the Size o... by castlecrasher2 on Monday July 30, 2018 @05:21PM (#17648147)
> It's nice for the previous generations that got something out of nothing.

The same generation that mindlessly claims that millennials are spoiled while we field $10K+ medical bills for things like childbirth when they cost <$1K for them. I haven't seen any data to back this up but I suspect they're also far higher in diabetes diagnoses which is another reason our care costs so much more.

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Re:The Pension Hole for U.S. Cities and States Is the Size o... by rgcapozz on Monday July 30, 2018 @05:22PM (#17648157)
As I get older I become more anarchist or socialist or syndicalist.
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Re:The Pension Hole for U.S. Cities and States Is the Size o... by dang on Tuesday July 31, 2018 @02:15PM (#17655604)
Please don't post unsubstantive comments here. Or ideological battle comments.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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Re:The Pension Hole for U.S. Cities and States Is the Size o... by prolikewh0a on Monday July 30, 2018 @05:24PM (#17648180)
>As I get older I realize why people say if you're not a liberal at 20, you have no heart but if you are not a conservative by 30, you have no brain (or something to that effect).

Being liberal and conservative is what got us here in the first place. Expansion of political ideas is only now becoming popular as this generation really feels the effects of wishy-washy American liberalism and conservatism that favors the already extremely wealthy.

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