Let’s show some respect to those who paved the way for us!
One of my favorite expressions is, “I’m not as young as I used to be.” It’s a great catch-all phrase that we use while trying to explain why we can’t do something as well as we used to. Aging is a natural, universal process, and it’s very unlikely that any of us will ever say, “I’m younger than I used to be.”
When I was growing up, people who were getting older might not have appreciated that they couldn’t do everything as well as they used to, and they certainly were not fond of the ever-increasing aches and pains they were experiencing. But at least they received respect from the young, the middle-aged and the old alike, and were treated humanely by the government.
Unfortunately, we’re seeing more and more signs, especially from the current administration, that “senior citizens” are becoming “second-class citizens.” The attitude seems to be, “If they can’t be productive members of society and if they are a drain on healthcare, then let’s focus more on phasing them out than in improving the quality of their lives.”
Apparently these people have forgotten that our senior citizens are the very ones who spent virtually every waking moment ensuring that today’s adults were fed, clothed, housed, insured and taken care of by doctors when they were children.
Some people have compared ObamaCare to socialized healthcare, which means that the state controls who gets what and at what cost. The 2009 Stimulus Bill pretty much guarantees that individuals’ value will be based on age, as the federal government’s computers will determine whether or not you are worth the cost of treatment and whether you will be approved to obtain treatment.
Bioethicist Ezekiel Emmanuel, brother of Obama adviser and Chicago Mayor Rahm Emmanuel, has written a treatise titled, “The Complete Lives System.” This document states that healthcare funds should go primarily to people between the ages of 20-50. Why? In order to protect the productivity and taxation of that age group. It’s all about the government playing God and deciding who is the most deserving of being kept healthy.
This article from FreedomOutpost.com article titled, “Shameful – The Elderly in America Are Considered Useless to the Younger” sums it up.
There are a number of things in life that disgust me, but few raise my ire as much as when I see senior citizens being mistreated. They should be honored for their service, admired for their legacy and consulted for their wisdom. Instead, they’re seen as a burden by some of today’s lawmakers, who are doing everything they can to shorten the duration of time that society will need to care for them.
In his new book, “ObamaCare Survival Guide,” author Nick Tate lists senior citizens among the groups of people who will be hurt by this new healthcare legislation. He writes, “Seniors were rightly angry about ObamaCare as it is significantly funded with money that comes from hundreds of billions of dollars in spending cuts to Medicare over the next decade.”
What are your thoughts about how senior citizens are treated in the U.S., compared to how they used to be treated? If you are a senior citizen, please let me know how you feel you’re being treated. Do you think that things are getting better or worse for American senior citizens? I’m very anxious to hear back from you on this important topic.
I agree with everyone, as I’m a very young 76. Grizzly, you are right on. Haven’t these stupid politians realized that they will be old soon too.!!!!
I am almost 80…My husband served in the Marines for 25 years. He had a stroke a number of years ago. I worry about what will happen to him if I should die. We have TriCare for Life insurance (Thank GOD) This country is being destroyed by politicians every day. We need a strong honest goverment to turn things around. Don’t know where we would find anyone….if they are honest when elected they lose it within 6 months time. Time for the citizens to take back OUR COUNTRY!
All government programs [except maybe one, US Postal Service] were created to make some one a lot of money: by people with a college education; which did not teach them to solve problems that were simple for everyone! Government is loaded with people who, it seems, are only capable treachery and scheming just like CRIMINALS: Ours, 2014, don’t read what they vote for, so are ghastly OVER PAID! But ignorant people keep voting for returning them to continue in office.
History will repeat itself….again. Rome became the most power nation in its time but fell- not by any attack by its enemies but by its own greed, lack of morals and corruption. Now it’s Americas turn. Our country’s Achilles heel is the very thing that made it great- “Freedom of speech and every citizens right to vote for its leaders”. We have to let our enemies and those who wish to enslave us vote in the leaders they want. It’s our own fault, we sit at home numbing our minds watching TV instead of getting up and going to the polls to vote!
Our leaders are slowly stripping us of our basic rights while promising to “take care of us”. They have buried us in debts we can never hope to pay off all the while stealing our pensions, reducing senior’s benefits, cutting back on health and welfare, public education and all other services we have come to enjoy and expect. Oh but they never fail to give themselves raises every chance they get.
It is our own apathy that will help them destroy us. They keep pushing new laws stealing our rights until we the people rise up and shout ”That’s Enough!”. They scurry to dark corners and holes and wait for us to settle back into apathy again. Then, like mice in the night, they come out of their hiding places and start nibbling away at our freedoms again.
Our “Dollar” which has been the standard of international trade for decades is on the verge of collapse. Backed by nothing more than empty promises the world knows we can never keep, China, Russia and a dozen other countries are going to a new standard backed by gold that they, not we, control. When that happens, our country will enter a time of great chaos. Our poor will be hit the hardest, suffering till they perish. The great middle class will become the new poor while only the rich will survive with any comfort as this country goes through the throes of adaptation and change. Will our country just up and disappear? Of course not, but it will change into something you and I would have never dreamed of. We watched as the USSR collapsed into many smaller countries. Will that be our future or will we be become a dictatorship of some kind.
I will turn 65 next month. My dad was a WWII vet and I saw the run around from the VA before he died. My mother is 92 years old and is in good health. My folks grew up in the depression and I have to respect that generation. I did not vote for Clinton or O’Bama. If we include the Supreme Court, we the people are letting 535 folks in Washington dictate our future. It is past time for a voter revolt. Only eight percent of this current administration has ever held a job in the public sector. I dare anyone to abuse a senior citizen in my view because if you don’t get told off you might just get punched out. Stand up folks and vote these idiots out of office! We don’t revere our elderly in this country. From O’Bama on down, when it comes to this country, LOVE IT OR LEAVE IT!
I am a vet that is disable. I tried to handle most of our problems on our own for yrs. Now both of us are disable and it is hard to get help. The VA is a joke. People in the government get better help then me and my brothers and sisters that put their live on the line for our country. If I was young people today I would not go into the military because the government don’t give a crap for them anymore. If they would have it their way they would live us all on our own because it would take from them. That is where our tax dollars go to pay them for screwing us all.
I’m spending what little have saved after a W/C settlement to start a business. That is because the government and economic conditions forced me to retire early; hence I cannot live on what I receive. So I dare to change my status. Although my savings are tax exempt, that means nothing to Social Welfare which increasingly decreases my food stamps. How the elderly are treated is a disgrace.
It figures A typical excercise by a man who knows not what he does
I agree with all of these comments. I am 72, and a retired physician. I spent a couple of years in the Navy as a doctor and fortunately am a member of USAA. Through them, I just purchased a Medicare Supplement plan for a very reasonable price. Not all of you have that option and are getting screwed by the massive increases for insurance. Pray for a cancelation of Obamacare.
With out reading any of the answers above, I thought I would just jump into this. OK, I’m a senior, 73 years worth. I’ve been in the army and the navy, big deal, so have a lot of other people. I’m also reasonably well educated, could be more so, but I am what I am. What I’m getting at Is that I’m not a nut just running my mouth and I take this very seriously. If I could go back to the strugling 40s and 50s, wars and all, I’d do it in a heart beat. Am I proud of America to day, you bet I am, I just can’t say the same for the people in charge. I’ve watched the last 3 presedents run this country right into the ground. Most of all Mr. Obama. How in God’s name did he ever get reelected, I should have thought the first time around would have been enough for everyone. I heard it said before that we wanted god out of all public places, and his name erased so that we wouldn’t offend anyone else, he obliged us by leaving. So who is going to take his place, Islamic dieties? All I can say now is God help us all… We can’t seem to help ourselves. I’ve tried writting to my state,Idaho, senator and congressman, about how I felt. Why don’t all of you do the same?
Have done Sir, thanks for your service
THE DUMMYING DOWN in our education system is directly involved in whats going on in our political system. the 20 to 50 age group are so stupid they have to have the media tell them who to vote for. It’s simple, vote for the person whose ideology is like yours. If your a Marxist you got your man. Just don’t call yourself something else, Oh I forgot Marxist think the end justify the means.
The seniors are the ones that had given their ALL in building this Republic in the wars they fought to keep America FREE. This in turn gave the freedom to those who would bring this nation down. The 20 to 50′s would not have these rights if the the seniors had not done all they did to secure this Nation. And what thanks do they get???? As for the vets take care of them and honor them, not let them just die because they are a burden. were the 20 to 50′s ever a burden ????? YES, but the seniors protected them and paid with their lives.
My wife, Joan and I are 70, and retired. I love reading the stories contained in our Country’s history, but lately, I fear that the beginning of the end of our great nation is upon us. Sadly, the Great Republic we inherited is in the grasp of a man who has declared that he will “transform” it. That he wants “social justice”, that we are all part of a collective, that he wants to spread the wealth around, and that he will use the executive power, not to protect and defend the constitution, but rather, to go around the Congress to get his own way.
The Constitution hangs by a thread. Our hope is in the young and younger American citizens awakening to their future prospects. Will the United States of America be the constitutional Republic that has been a shining light and hope for the world for FREEDOM and JUSTICE for all, or will we continue the decline toward socialism that cares not for the individual, but rather the collective? The past 5 years have seen an exponential move toward the latter. I fear that if we do not return to our roots in 2014, and again in 2016, to stop the transition of the country, that the next 100 years will be the saddest of all.
socialism and communism has already failed many times over. however, education is now being controlled by the government, hence, the 20-50 year olds no nothing about the reason our nation was formed, what it represents, and what an exceptional result it produced.
Has anybody stopped to see what business the people that support the Obama administration are in? Is it hands on production, or hard work? Nope. It’s community organization and insurance sales and investments. Make money off of other people’s money or hard work. The middle men of society. I think they are referred to as Money Changers in a book America holds near and dear.
My pension insurance was cancelled which covered both my husband and me. I worked hard and used the promised insurance as part of my retirement plans. A small stipend was given but does not cover the increase of what I am now having to pay and the plan is very “subpar” to what I had. My premium is 4 times higher than what I was paying, my prescription plan is much worse causing me to pay $2000 more this past year and I NO LONGER have dental insurance which was part of my pension insurance plan. Retirees definitely should have been grandfathered. These extra cost greatly financially hurt us and the cost will continue to go up. This is just the beginning as to what Obamacare implementation will do to seniors and all people. I pray enough people wise up and will not be lazy and will go to the polls to vote in ALL future elections. This will be our only hope. Drive, walk, crawl – but VOTE!!
we are both senior citizen with a lot of health issues. Mainly because we did hard work when we were young. It is disgusting how nobama and his group are treating the seniors in this country. The only thing I can say is, they will be old some day and I hope someone takes their millions of dollars that they have gotten while in government office and they should be poor like people on s.s. See how they like it! They will get old someday. I (Deborah) have had a total knee replacement, major back surgery, cataract surgery in both eyes, and other assorted problems which are on going and I am only65, my husband,69, has had frozen feet while serving this country, he has a bad back, hearing loss, emphysema, diabetes, and sclerosis of the liver; (not from alcohol). I guess we will get cut off of our meds and die within a few years. That seems to be what this administration wants.
I am an 83 years young senior citizen. I am still active, go to the gym usually 3 times a week for one hour, watch my diet which is very healthful (vegetarian), play organ and piano at church, been married for 64 years to a wonderful man, and give God credit for all of the above!
But I am VERY concerned about our health care in the future. Ten months ago I had total knee replacement (arthritus). I still might need hip replacement, and hammer toes surgery, and knee replacement on the other knee, because of arthritus. I doubt that I would be approved for any more surgery. I expect to live for a number of years yet, and will probably have to suffer the results of arthritus, instead of having surgery. I do not care to take alot of medicine….I try natural methods when possible. I appreciate your comments about unfairness to senior citizens. Thanks for stating your views…..I agree!
Anyone who puts their trust in the current administration and their crooked minions is setting themselves up for a fall. Just when I thought Chicago got what they deserved with one Immanuel another crops up on Fox news and starts frothing at the mouth over the attributes of the Affordable Care Act and unwarranted attacks on the beloved Hussein Obama. ACA is a dismal failure, unless your goal is to wreck the health care system, control citizens at their most vulnerable level, and hand the country over to the radicals within our borders.
Politicians years ago recognized Social Security as the perfect cash cow with money supplied by those who worked and paid half, and business owners paying the other half. No new taxes to promote, no need to buy support from conspirators who would benefit from other’s savings and labor, and the payments were automatic every payday, need to have the IRS goons collect! And the robbery goes on with more than two hundred years of lawmakers making laws to tax and spend. So with proper corruption the system of checks and balances could be broken beyond repair for years, Presidents could fulfill their Santa Claus or God power fantasies, and everyone, young and old gets to be broke at their expense!
I am a senior who worked my entire life in industry, paid my dues (and other’s thanks to overtime), raised a family, improved the neighborhoods I lived in with groomed yards and well-kept homes, and paid, paid, paid taxes for the fools to squander beyond belief. Now they borrow money from the Chinese to give to Arab states who hate the United States with a passion, and saddle citizens with the debt-and interest to be paid to bond holders and “printing fees” to the Federal Reserve system. Financial slavery by the stroke of a pen and ridicule and humiliation to any who dare question the need for spending limits, democratic process, or hints of intelligence.
If I didn’t answer to a Higher Power I would wake up in the night with a knot in my stomach and fists clinched at what has happened to America and my “Golden Years”. Seniors are more than targets to the Obama administration.
I think what they are doing to the senior citizens is flat out wrong! I cannot believe we the people of the United States sit back and allow these things to happen in our government! Look what we have allowed over the past 4-6 years. Makes my blood boil that our founding fathers up to our military today put their lives on the line for us to sit and let it all fade away. No family values, no respect to ourselves, others, authority, especially our elders. I know a few stand up but unfortunately that will not cut it. We need everyone to stand up to make the difference. Lets all stand up, clean up the government, get our values back and repent, then will be restored to a prosperous and blessed nation! By sitting back we are putting a gun to our senior citizens head! Shameful, just shameful!!!!
At near 70, MY DAD WOULD HAVE KNOCKED ME ON MY a _ _! HAD SPOKEN 2 MY ELDERS THE WAY YOUNG PEOPLE DO 2DAY! LET ALONE, ACCOST THEM, BEAT THEM, TRY TO TAKE AN OLD LADY’S PURSE! -As a ‘child of the 60′s, I’M WELL PAST 30!- Remember: “DON’T TRUST ANYONE OVER 30?” EVEN, THE MOST UNCIVILIZED OF SOCIETIES, REVEERED THEIR ELDERS! ‘HISTORY’ WAS THE [STORIES] THE OLD TOLD OVER CAMPFIRES! WHEN “THE YOUNG” WILL NEED US, IT WILL BE TOO LATE… WE’LL BE GONE! YEAH, I CAN’T BEAT U AT “SPACE INVADERS”, (I DATE MYSELF),WORLD OF WARiii, BUT ‘ASK ME HOW SOMETHING MECHANICAL WORKS… U WILL GET A DISSERTATION OF PHYSICAL, MECHANICAL, ~LOGICAL~ PRINCIPLES{TRUTH} THAT WORKS! MY TIME HAS COME & GONE! MOST EVERYTHING IS: “A YOUNGMAN’S GAME!” I’M STILL BREATHING & I’LL BE DAMNED IF U’LL PUT ME IN THE GROUND UNTIL THE DUST SETTLES AFTER I SLIDE IN!
I am 63 I tried to sign up for Obama care and they want $1462 per month? That is a little over $300.00 a month more than I have as a income?