After reading the article “Social Security -- Are you kidding me?” by LZ Granderson a couple of things have ran across my mind. First thing my age group is definitely his intended audience, anyone under 40 for the most part which the author did mention. The author LZ Granderson seems to have good credibility as he was named journalist of the year and being a senior writer and columnist for ESPN. Surfing CNN you will also come across a lot of his articles.
In his article he claims that Social Security will not be apart of our retirement, which I side with even prior to reading his article. People in our generation definitely have to make sure we make other financial arrangements for our retirement. The evidence he provides in support is politicians, use Social Security as a game piece to bring in voters in with their empty promises, and that politicians believe this a game going from election after election. The author quotes, “We are not as mad about this switcheroo as much as we are mad that the reform can keeps getting kicked down a road that's getting shorter and shorter by a bunch of politicians who know better but are too afraid of losing voters”. I strongly believe that they use the game for a temporary high. I do not have any confidence in our government at this point. I also believe that politicians are out for their money and only money. All politicians tend to bring up anything that seem like it could improve our nation but really brings nothing but empty promises to the table.
It is also obvious the author does not seem to have faith in the Democrats. The author states, “The Democrats won't even support the modest changes recommended by the president's own debt commission, including phasing in a two-year increase in the retirement age over the next 65 years and raising the ceiling on payroll taxes”.
The author even brings up that Obama did not mention at any time a halt in his own paycheck or even people in the White House’s paycheck. Instead it was our military that almost suffered along with our Social Security recipients. Why would you take money from people that obviously need it and to those that sacrifice their lives to keep our freedom? Why would you not cut money to those that can afford to have just a little less? To me the targets to be cut should be obvious.
The author comes to a close with the following quotes, “The Great Depression gave birth to Social Security. The Greatest Generation fed it and made it strong. Today the sheer number of the baby boomers is slowly strangling it to death”. He really does a good job at supporting his opinion.
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