“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.
Are you pullin’ my leg? Do you really expect your kids to take care of you and your wife? Do you mean you will give your SS and Medicare back to the gooberment that forcefully took it for all your working years? Our kids and their spouses both work and live hand to mouth but do contribute to retirement accounts for their future. There’s no way they could take on the added burden of taking care of us. We CHOOSE to take care of my mom. I don’t want her in a nursing home and taking care of her is the hardest thing I’ve ever done and I do it gladly. I still say that the waste and fraud in this country is a part of the problem with SS and Medicare. We need every politican regardless of party to be voted OUT the next time around. We need new blood and I have to believe there are some out there that can fix this mess we’re in.