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.
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?