Hey, friend, I’m 57, not some under-40 kid. And I’m here to tell you that the vast majority of those I know over age 65, men and women alike, want to be taken care of, and if they have to vote themselves that largesse then that’s what they will do.
I am active in the American legion, and almost every member over the age of 70 in our post and others I’ve been associated with brags about how little they paid into SS in comparison with how much they get from it. They are all the time talking about benefits, entitlements, etc., and they all say they deserve it.
So, I stand by my argument that the majority of seniors vote to get more entitlements.
Could you give some specifics as to these *entitlements*?
I am 65, female, self-employed for over 43 years and my SS is paltry, I have no *entitlements* that I didn’t pay for and continue to pay for. I have employed people on disability and welfare in the past and from what I could see, their *entitlements* were so small as to be laughable. Certainly, no one could live on them unless somehow they had cash assets that escaped the scrutiny of the welfare system, which even seems to consider a whole life insurance policy an asset because it can be borrowed against.
I have been politically active on both sides of the political divide up until this year and I have never even heard of an entitlement which I could vote for myself.
I am very serious in these questions. It almost sounds like there is some parallel system out there that it secret, at least to me, my husband and those I have queried about this since reading your post, which includes one veteran. He told me that because he does not have a service-related disability and didn’t serve for 20 years, he isn’t even eligible for VA medical care.
Are any of these over-70 vets conservative or even Republican?