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.
“Are you pullin’ my leg?” Nope
“Do you really expect your kids to take care of you and your wife?” Yep, but you’re pulling my leg if you think it’s wrong, given that is the way society has existed for at least 4920 of the past 5000 years. The idea of extracting money from strangers started with the Bolsheviks and was imported to the US by FDR.
“Do you mean you will give your SS and Medicare back to the gooberment that forcefully took it for all your working years?” Gladly, providing that it’s the policy of this country. Otherwise I’ll take the money and hand it right to my kids, as it’s their money (and, in fact, their kids’s money) anyway. I have no more claim to it than I have claim to my neighbor’s money.
“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.” Oh, they likely could - at least in most cases (don’t know yours, obviously). They would just have to be prepared to do so and adjust their lives accordingly. And even if they can’t finance all of it, they certainly can help, and so can the parents, by living cheaply.
“We CHOOSE to take care of my mom.” Awesome.
“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.” Not enough, it’s our attitude that stealing from future generations is ok that has to change too.