[TigersEye]

Beyond that, you get into who should really pay for people that cannot otherwise take care of themselves. If they were kids, then the parents are expected to pay their way, particularly if the parents are making money. So why not flip that around and have the well-off kids help out a bit (as Tiger is doing)? If the older person needs help, track down his family and if they have resources, then they should pony-up.

This is what I have been looking for. Some solutions that recognize that the vice we are in crushes on both ends, young and old. I suspected that you were more reasonable than you were letting on. It did not go unnoticed that you didn't try to straw man or ad-hominem me into silence. I don't have a problem with the solutions you proposed.

[GeronL]

I like that idea.

[BobL]

Thanks Tiger, I kind of suspected that you were being open-minded also. I see the age of older people living on their own as only a luxury that a very wealthy country can afford...and we had it, but then blew it (thanks to liberalism). We simply aren’t that wealthy anymore, so we are very likely to end up that way...I would just like to get there on our terms, rather than the on the terms of China or the IMF.