So pray tell BobL now that we’re in the “mooching” class and no longer young enough to work what is YOUR solution? Put us out on the street and put us on another form of WELFARE...or have our kids take us in...or move back in with our parents...wait! They’re all DEAD except my 86 year old mother who has dementia and I take care of her. Maybe we should just move in with her and live on her 900.00 a month. Of course! That’s what we can do.........silly me. If you think doing away with SS and Medicare and having workers save for their own retirement, think again. In this economy do you really think that people are going to be able to do it? I don’t hold out much hope for that and years down the road those same workers will have to depend on government for the WELFARE state that will surely follow. We never expected to get SS and that’s the reason we put money toward our pension and just because part of that was to be paid by Hub’s employer we’re STILL these evil money grabbers. Hell’s Bell’s we’re getting it coming and going.
“So pray tell BobL now that we’re in the “mooching” class and no longer young enough to work what is YOUR solution? Put us out on the street and put us on another form of WELFARE...or have our kids take us in...or move back in with our parents...wait! They’re all DEAD except my 86 year old mother who has dementia and I take care of her.”
Assuming that your kids are still around, perhaps they should help out, as opposed to my kids, who already have me and the misses to deal with, in the not-so-far future.
“If you think doing away with SS and Medicare and having workers save for their own retirement, think again. In this economy do you really think that people are going to be able to do it?”
I agree, they won’t. They aren’t doing it now, and there’s no reason to think they will in the future. So we go after their kids and have them be the primary providers. If they can’t, then the government. That would bring these programs back into balance overnight. I know way too many elderly people that “don’t want to be a burden” to their children - so they are, instead, a burden to my children and their future.
So let’s start by bring the family back in. Shutting them out in 1933 was one of the biggest mistakes ever made by this country and it still may cost us our freedom if we don’t change that, and QUICKLY.