every one of us will face this in one way or another. question is do you stand with those who feel we must support each other or those who think the survival of the fittest is the best way for government to act? as 'our' government allows social security and medicare to go bankrupt it gives israel at least ten million dollars a day. you might wish to question why that is.

As the scaremongering begins, this is your fight too!

by: 

Davve Lindorff

Let me start out with full disclosure: I'm 69 and next April I will start collecting $30.000 a year in Social Security benefits -- the amount I equalify for on the basis of both my highest 35 years of earnings as an employed and later self-employed journalist, and of waiting until I hit 70, the maximum age for starting to collect benefits.
So it particularly galls me to read news articles about that program (and Medicare) saying things like:
New warnings about cuts to Social Security and Medicare are a reson to worry
Ryan's retirement won't end the entitlement debate
and Social Security Benefits: Will They Be There When You Retire?
Such ill-informed and often deliberately scare-mongering pieces make my blood boil. Because in reality Social Security is not an actuarial problem of too many people living too long. It's a socio-political problem: Do we as a people want to adequately fund the retirement of our elderly parents and of those suffering from disabilities or do we want to go back to an era where they ended up starving on the streets, or as a burden to their children?

continues at the link below.

http://thiscantbehappening.net/node/3908