>I am not rich, but I am young. And I despise the fact that I'm paying for retirement programs and pensions for people who just happened to be born at the right

>I am not rich, but I am young. And I despise the fact that I'm paying for retirement programs and pensions for people who just happened to be born at the right time with the right job. > >It's fundamentally unjust that we're forced, by law, to pay for benefits we will never receive. This is the attitude American oligarchs have been trying to inculcate among the young. This was notably the goal of Pete Peterson's "the can kicks back" astroturfing campaign as well as Stan Druckenmiller's college campus campaigns, and even this neat piece of astroturf: http://www.quickmeme.com/Baby-Boomer-Dad/?upcoming http://www.quickmeme.com/Baby-Boomer-Dad/?upcoming The idea is to keep young and old divided so that they will not form a cohesive political bloc that will not fight for each other's interests. The young will be complicit in strip-mining the pensions of the old. The old will be complicit in the absurd ramp up of student debt and the removal of pension rights from the young.