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as an xer myself, i fear for the future. all those boomers retiring, all that socialist legislation they have passed! G-d help us all!
My goodness what more do we “old farts” want? I turn 65 in February. My Medicare is $97/month, my Part D (drugs) is $27/month and my supplemental is $109/month. This is about $500 less per month than I was paying in my fifties. I went to an AARP convention two years ago with my wife on a lark. We saw Elton John for practically nothing (I cannot remember the cost) and had a huge number of companies giving us “stuff.” Not junk stuff but good stuff. I told one vendor I had 10 grandkids (which is true) and he told me I needed 30 of his item so each child could have three. Whenever I hear the “whiners” on the golf course, my blood boils.
Age and treachery will always overcome youth and skill.
Here is a clue. If you owned a house in Wisconsin for 30 years before moving to Florida, you have plenty of equity to purchase your retirement standard in FL. If you haven’t done well enough to enjoy such equity or prosperity, then either you can’t afford to move to Florida, or you can’t afford to retire to your standard of living.
Any way you cut it, our constitution does not suggest that all people be equally lavished in comfortable leisure in their old age at the government’s expense.
Life Liberty and the PURSUIT of Happiness. I did not read where Happiness was a right endowed by our creator.
(That might make a good tagline)