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Originally Posted by Ustwo
Laugh, I'll believe it when I see it.
Seriously this is laughable. Most 'young people' I knew when I was working menial jobs bitched constantly about the amount that social security took out of their pay checks (and they know nothing about employer matching).
The only reason a young person should think of leaving over social security changes is if the government decides they need to tax them all to the brink to pay for the aging population. That is a lot more scary to a young person then lack of free crappy health care, or small checks when they are retirement age.
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Your last paragraph is exactly the position we are taking as well as the opinion of the discussant.
Where exactly do you think the money comes from to fund the transition costs? Scratch that, if it's too far off topic. Where was I even talking about menial labor when I mentioned the brain drain? The young posters in this thread are Ph. D. students. If you want to laugh while we go somewhere else, fine, but the nations reaping the rewards aren't laughing--they're excited from the looks of their immigration websites.
Laugh and scoff all you want. We are a lot different than the youth of when you went to school. It is ludicrous to me that people continuously compare the generations without acknowledging the different historical realities and opportunities each one faced.
As I initially said, the primary reason we're (my wife and I) moving is economic. Shortly, I want a good paying job.
Now I added that I'm willing to give up a substantial portion of that income for social services I see as desirable. I didn't say I was leaving the country for free health care or social security. I don't see any reason to work in a country that pays me shitty wages, doesn't give me the social services I want for my taxdollars, and is preparing the public to shit on me when I finally retire.