I understand the betrayal, but not the silence! All the broken and raped unions and companies that disappear without an echo. Freedom of the press was one of the first of these casualties.
If you suddenly lost your retirement; that which you feel you deserve for managing to stay with the right job long enough. Would you decry a government which would allow this to happen to those within a secondary, not as small group of its citizens. Hard workers!, those whose union or Corporation hasn't yet betrayed them to the voice of pure capitalism.
But what have you said when a Hard worker of 40 plus years, a non union or Corporate employee, working just as hard as you but was not allowed into these two Capitalist elitists groups. When these people find that what little Social Security now offers them is almost what was promised to them but only if they are healthy enough or in a job that allows them to wait until they're 70 to retire. For this is only how one obtains their full promised Pension. What if you had to give up 1/3 of your retirement, would you cry aloud where only silence stands?
What has happened to the over 65 voting bloc. How did our Corporate/Union/Capitalist United States manage to unravel this group where no one noticed?
- jude
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When Social Security was set up, the average lifespan was 65. So, if everyone was required to work until 65, half of all workers would not receive any Social Security at all, except for spousal benefits. In those days, most women did not work in the workplace, but had to work very hard at home to maintain the household. Today the average lifespan is somewhere between male and female, about 83. That means the average worker retiring at 70 would have 13 more years, on average to, enjoy their Social Security benefits.
With a Teamsters pension, my father was able to retire at 62. In his last year of work, he made the equivalent that my mother made in her entire working life… And, she worked at least 40 of those years in very low paying jobs, sometimes part-time, and for a while in a factory.
If you do a survey of people over 65 you'll find that many are Republican and quite conservative. They vote for conservative candidates who are now trying to gradually eliminate Social Security in favor of riskier capitalistic approaches like IRAs.
The biggest problem we have in the United States is our own ignorance. If we are stupid enough to vote for stupid people, they will certainly do us in. The worst thing we can do is to be stupid enough not to vote, thinking our vote doesn't count.
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With a Teamsters pension, my father was able to retire at 62. In his last year of work, he made the equivalent that my mother made in her entire working life… And, she worked at least 40 of those years in very low paying jobs, sometimes part-time, and for a while in a factory.
If you do a survey of people over 65 you'll find that many are Republican and quite conservative. They vote for conservative candidates who are now trying to gradually eliminate Social Security in favor of riskier capitalistic approaches like IRAs.
The biggest problem we have in the United States is our own ignorance. If we are stupid enough to vote for stupid people, they will certainly do us in. The worst thing we can do is to be stupid enough not to vote, thinking our vote doesn't count.
Ron