Once upon a time. we did elect the Newt Gingrich congress who did much to reform social security and put it on a sound fiscal footing, but thanks to the ruinous spending of the democrats and this massive immigration of unskilled illegal aliens pushing up the amount of transfer payments hugely it is gone. It is a sad sad situation. When I was young, pensions were common, in fact they were vested. You were promised that no matter what, you would have this pension, and then for most of us who worked in the private sector, this income we had planned on for our retirement, was all taken away us when we were 40 or so, and facing the fact we were going to have to start over trying to prepare for our retirement, just when our college-bound children needed our incomes the most. Then thanks to the destructive policies of the federal govt, our stocks deperated, interest rates and housing prices fell, prices rose, our annuities we paid so much into just began to disappear, for many of us our wages and hours cut. And then, our grown children, unable to find jobs, began to need our support further depleting what savings we had set aside.
It is so hard to be old, my young friend, after a life time of working, paying high taxes (many of those years taxes were higher than yours by the way.) We have been hurt too, it is so very very hard to be old and sick, knowing what little income you are given comes from young people who have every right to resent you. You are asking so much from the “old” patriots, more than you can imagine, you ask us to be utterly impoverished, utterly dependent on the charity of those who like you resent us so, no longer able work after we have stood on our own two feet for all of our lives, and provided for children as best we could. Many of us old people will probably choose to live destitute, sick, starving, cold, and homeless after a life of toil, to help you, but it is a terrible sacrifice, and you should not resent and hate us so much for fearing this.
And to think the scam that is Social Security was foisted by the reasoning that folks were not saving enough of their own to provide for themselves in their declining years. Turns out this is just one more thing the feral gummint couldn’t do, either!
Well said. 74 and still working. Will have to work till I they pry that screwdriver out of my cold, stiff hand.
I have had it with these self centered punks.
Thanks for the post!
The context of these posts is the article’s suggestion of a revolution.
Classify me as at the tail end of the baby boom.
Anyone who depends on a check from the government, no matter how well deserved, earned, or needed is dependent on the government. If your sole source of income is from a government check then you are solely reliant on the government for your welfare.
If you are reliant upon the government for your income how likely are you to support any movement towards restricting that government to its lawful activities under the US Constitution?
Are we going to have a revolution that makes sure all deserving people keep their checks? What government benefit are you willing to give up to take back our country?