News of Social Security's death exagerrated

Scroll past the satire to get to the meat of the article at the link--Dictynna.

Baby boomers won't break it, and problems are easily solved

Sunday, December 23, 2007

By Bob Moos, The Dallas Morning News

DALLAS -- On her blog, Cassandra Devine balks at the prospect of paying for the baby boomers' Social Security benefits.

Her "modest proposal" for sparing the younger generation that expense: Pay retirees to commit suicide.

"Our parents, the boomers, dodged the draft, snorted cocaine and made self-indulgence a virtue. I call them the Ungreatest Generation. Here's their chance, finally, to give something back," she writes to her fellow twentysomethings.