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 see alot of Obama bashing comments but in reality it the republicans who think seniors are wanting a free ride. Although anyone had social security and medicare taxes taken out of paychecks weekly these over paid fat cats ie ted cruz, and most of them see social security as their favorite to attack.
Why because they know that the previous generation were docile and did whatever they were told. What !! Well guess they are in for a suprise when baby boomers start to fight back and oh yes we will. It s sad that previous generations are used as pawns in this scrabble but congress watch OUT!!
Frank,
I have read through all of the comments posted about this subject on senior citizens. I agree with the majority of the comments, but the question is, are these comments forwarded to the representatives in Washington and to each state for them to read. With this amount of information and telling the government what we really think, hopefully it will get them to think how they are screwing us to the hilt. Nice work everyone and great comments.
While all of you 60,70,80 & plus would stop and see the writing on the wall. You would notice that our vote means nothing as far as government is concerned. I am 74 and do believe that if we seniors don’t form on our own. Then kiss your butt good by. Say you are wanting a change, well what are you waiting for to sit around and just die. Get off your butt and organize a senior rebel on problems at hand. We have fought before for our Government! Now lets fight for our selves. Time to stop talking and start doing.
In my early 70’s and appalled ,@how the politicians,keep thinking they have every given right to step all over the senior citizens ,stop this cut that .Then they don’t use medicare ,and they bale out with there golden parachutes
I happen to agree 100%
They talk about “entitlements” which another disingenuous pile for myself and the many millions like me who have worked a lifetime,paid abusive,mismanaged taxes by impotent,incompetent politicians who spent OUR hard earned money on War after War,scandal after scandal on failed program after failed program benefiting only themselves!
There are millions like myself who will Never spend the money they gave due to the “promise” of employer matches,compound interest over as many as 50 years or more securely in a “lock box” which Never existed as an exponentially corrupt government Stole the people’s money as opposed to honoring the “promise” of “good healthcare,a liveable sum of money to ensure that the “Golden Years” like the American Dream turned Nightmare for most would “be there” which it isn’t due to an exponentially failing system,a government sworn to serve the people,the country but in fact only supports their greed,their tyranny,their insatiable quest for money,power,privilege and control at the expense of those they take a sacred oath to represent,to serve.the Constitution,the Constitutional Republic that they swear to defend and enforce!
Pathological Liars,Demagogues,Sociopath’s,,self-anointed deities the very things called tyranny is what millions and millions of “legal” immigrants” risked everything to embrace,worked indefatigably to build,fought to protect too often died to defend for Freedom,For Opportunity,For a present and a future for themselves and their families,for unalienable,G-D given rights generation after generation until NOW!
Screw these dictators,these crooks,these liars,these tyrant s as tyranny is what they have brought us bankruptcy as a country,50 million on food stamps a system failed on the verge of implosion as all three branches,”checks and balances” designed to make sure that an Obama,a Johnson,a Nixon,the Clinton’s and a “limited” government are in fact complicit in tyranny the state of the union today!!
In my early 60’s and still hanging in there. Don’t ever expect to retire because I have 4 beautiful children and 2 step children that are all college graduates (reason for no retirement) that need some help along the way to “make it” in this ridiculous society we’ve allowed to transpire. Obummer is just a puppet in this whole fiasco. The real culprits are the United Nations and world’s elites that feel we all need to be governed by one world entity that will decree how many children are born, how long you will live and the proper amount of world population to sustain a utopian Earth. Those who think your vote matters have blinders on. The people who are supposedly voted in, were meant to be voted in. You may cast your vote, but the winner was already decided by the manipulators. The world is a farce and we sheeple allow it to happen because it is the path of least resistance.
We are all going to die and I am way more concerned with how this earth is going to turn out for my kids, cause they will never have the freedoms we did growing up.
Remember…once you are dead you are now equal to everyone else because you won’t know if you were rich, poor, in pain, a bum or an aristocrat. So live your life the best you can, cause when it finally ends, that’s it….nothing more.
Correction to escape tyranny
Three months ago I got a letter from Florida Blue telling me I will owe $309.00 from $169.00monthly bill . Of course I called. The reason, I’m getting old!!!! I have had Florida Blue for 40 years and this is what I get. I have been paying this new cost with hardship but I thought it wise to keep good coverage. My next notice is that Federal laws have forced the company to discontinue the policy and I have until June 1, 2015 to find new coverage. My days are numbered being 76 but I really think my temper is at 100% when I see the CEO’s of insurance companies + others including the coverage of the seniors in DC getting the respect and 100% cover at good rates too. Because I live in Hillsborough county in Tampa, I only have two companies to look at—-they go by zip codes. What, I should move to get better coverage!. Time I throw the towel in, get down on my knees and go on welfare. I can give all my nest egg to the dogs in trust and I’ll be okay?
If we are going to be screwed, it should be enjoyable! Seniors deserve better.
First and foremost I agree our senior citizens deserve the utmost respect and much of the innovations of today rest on the innovations they came up with during their time. But let’s also not forget something important to remember about the middle aged population of which I am a part
1. I pay for two retirement plans. 401k which may pan out, and social security which may not pan out. But I am happy to pay the social security because my parents and grandparents depend on the promise the country made to them.
2. I fund two educational systems
I pay for the public school system which I do not believe in because it is all about passing a test. Maybe they should just work out a college test and give that to the students and if they pass they get a masters degree.
Then because I actually want my kids to get an education and can afford it, I pay for private school. Which I must point of is a stretch but I feel very fortunate to be able to do that for them. I am happy to fund public schools because it is still beneficial for all to have an option.
On top of all this I need to raise my kids, maintain a healthy marriage with my spouse, and keep moving up in my career to keep ahead of all the inflation that is going on. And in about 10 to 15 years I will need to start Caring for my parents.
I know this comes off as poor me and I do not mean for it to be like that. All I am saying is I do not feel all that pandered to. This is about the hardest I have ever worked in my life and I do not see it calming down in the near future.
I wish the government could it govern and the news could just keep us informed about what is going on. But today a story needs to have a villain to be worth reading I guess. Maybe obamacare is a mistake, but it is rediculous to me to hear people say he has so e dark agenda to get rid of he senior citizens and drive the country into the ground. Republicans call him out for being the one person to drive this country into the ground. And then in the same interview they call him out for not being able to get anything done. Which is it?
He wanted to do a single payer system where all would be covered. Now he is a socialist. Under that plan seniors and everyone else would have health care. But that didn’t work so he compromised with Healy exchanges and now he is a jerk because one group is having their Medicare raided. Does someone have a link to the web site the defines who it is moral to give health care and who should be kicked to the curb within republican constraints? Maybe it has the list of who’s rights are allowed to be taken away as well just so we are all on the same page. Where is the debate about male birth control because it seems to be all about women, so I guess they are on the list. Oh and let’s get some more quotes from the bible because all the conservative politicians seem to follow that manual to the letter. Or maybe they are just really good at trying to shame the rest of us for not doing that.
He tries to get gun controls in place because sacked out freaks are running around with legally purchased firearms and killing children with them. And they call him out for rights infringement. I believe the issue was it was just too inconvenient for someone to have to take 15 minutes to fill out a form. I tried to buy beer at the grocery store last night but because it was after midnight they can’t sell it to me. phew! Good catch on that one. Crisis averted. And I can take that drinking time I saved and get a gun right now and everyone is ok with that? Come on people wake up!
And of course the lawmakers will exempt themselves and receive the best of care until the day they die – at taxpayers’ expense of course.
They already have, William.
I too have visited several different Convalescent Homes and found most of the people in a stupor. Our family made a pact that “No ONE” will ever be put in one of those homes. Now there is obamacausticcare, which will cause more harm than good to any senior that lets their guard down.
When this healthcare mandate was being discussed…not passed yet…I got a copy of it and downloaded it to my system. When they said that a panel of laymen would be making the health decisions for people 70 years on up, I knew that this should never be accepted by our government. Then pelosi cackled, “Just sign it, you can read it later” and the idiots on Capitol Hill signed it into being. BHO never drafted this nightmare to help anyone, but to hurt as many Americans as possible…especially the older Americans with wisdom and sense in their heads that can’t be fooled by his destructive and elusive actions. Barry doesn’t care whether Seniors live or die — just stay out of his plans and obey his demands.
Well, what he doesn’t realize is it was the backbreaking sweat of the seniors that helped build America into what she is today, their sweat and tears, their hard work, their sacrificing so that their own children will have a better place to live. Many kids have forgotten or never knew how our country got to be strong. Ask most young people on the street about our country’s history…they don’t have a clue! It was our Senior men and women who fought in the Korean War, World War I, World War II, Vietnam, etc. that paved the road for America to become a super power, with the respect of the World. Now one egotistical, arrogant, narcissist is unwinding all of those efforts by the Seniors of today. Why? Because he has a tormented ego because his father ignored him as a child and when his father finally took the time to see him, it was not even a full day spent together. But the damage was done in those short hours, because bho desperately needed to be recognized by his dad and when his father expressed how much he HATED America, that gave barry soetero something to identify with…a common grudge…common ground. It was then he made the decision to do whatever necessary to destroy America…the one thing he knew his dad would thank him for. The rest is ancient history. He was ripe for destruction, mold-able because of no blood father figure present growing up, and desperate to be in the spotlight where he felt important…something he never received from his very own father. So here we are.
If obama doesn’t even care about his own Grandmother, what makes you think he would care about you, an American Senior stranger? Kick the bum out, but first try him for treasonist acts, jail him until he is 71 and then force him to sign up for obamacare. Just joking. Hopefully, obamacausticcare will die before it is fully hatched. No one is benefiting from the monstrosity…
I have talked to friends who have been admitted to nursing homes and they told me that they couldn’t think or stay awake because of the drugs they were take. Also I’ve heard about the kick backs from Big Pharma to the nursing homes for drugging their money pits to the point of becomes zombies. Makes me wonder if the orders to drug seniors to the point of being in a stupor came from the government which also receives royalties from Big Pharma.
I went to breakfast with my wife one fine Saturday. As we were talking, the subject came around to birthdays. My wife was looking at the menu when she looked up at me and said that I was a senor citizen. Just then the waitress came over to take our orders. Without stopping my wife turned towards the waitress and said “My husband is a senior citizen, does he get the senior citizen discount?’ The waitress looked at me as I looked back at her with my mouth opened. I was caught off guard with that remark from my wife. The waitress said quickly, “Sure thing, hun.” then smiled at me. I can feel my cheeks turning red. It was at that moment I realized that I had entered into the silver citizen club. I might be entitled to walk through the door, but I feel far from being old.
I have seen so much through the eyes of my parents as to what they had to deal with being old. Medical, Social Security, pensions, paying for medications, doctor visits, hospital stays, trying to make ends meet, excreta. They were proud people. They wouldn’t accept any financial support from us, kids. I had the money, but, my dad would say keep it and save it because you will need it some day.
Then last year his prediction came true, my wife went into the hospital due to cancer. After four visits, our nest egg was pretty much gone. My wife had complications due to the initial surgery.
My parents didn’t sit around crying in the beer. They went out and got a part time job at the age of 75 years old. If they made to much the government would penalize them. The government has a outdated idea what seniors are suppose to have and what they can do in order to live.
It is a dirty shame. There are so many businesses aimed at trying to get what took a life time to earn that we seniors must protect ourselves. What really frosts my glass is that the Federal, State, County, and City governments are doing their best to get their share from the senior citizens too. They don’t care how they get their monies as long as they get it, they don’t care if inflation is out of control, they don’t care if property taxes are excessive, they don’t even care that you don’t have the money to pay them because they can sell what you have to someone who can pay. These entities are not interested in you as a person but what is in it for themselves. That’s why your government officials have been caught with their hands in the ole cookie jar robbing the taxpayer blind. They don’t see it as stealing from you, but, having access to monies that they can pay back later or not.
The bottom line is this, we were to busy looking after ourselves that we forgot that the day will come when we must turn the reins over to the younger generation. We were too busy making sure that they would have the best that we can give them that we forgot about ourselves. It is not to late. The baby boomers are filling the social services so fast; that changes must be made in order to accommodate us as a political power. The government has been stealing from Social Security for the past 50 years to fund their special pet projects. Now the government is saying that there is not enough monies to support the baby boomers. They are going to do what they can to cut corners, short change the baby boomers, even end government programs that were to help and support the baby boomers. Look at Obama care. It is a ploy to get cash to support the uninsured or is it to support the government. Just wait and see when the uninsured can’t even afford this new medical coverage and they will have to pay the penalty. The government has been eyeing the insurance companies and their fat stacks of cash. Now, the government wants that stash of cash for their very own. We, seniors, know without a doubt that the ones that will be getting screwed are the ones that lease can afford it.
So what can be done. Seniors after all are very quite. We don’t voice our concerns for two reasons. One, seniors don’t like to rock the boat. They can’t afford the trauma of the drama. 2.) Seniors over time, die. That’s right, you might have someone that is willing to take this problem on, but unfortunately, they pass away halfway through the fight. All the connections and contacts that they have made disappears. Then someone else will need to start over, reinvent the wheel, sort of speak.
We need laws that protect the seniors. For example, the amount taxes that seniors have to pay to keep their homes. Laws that limit how much a senior has to pay for medical coverage, or how much they have to pay for food and services. There are other laws I would like to see but I don’t want to stay on my soap box and over stay my welcome. The only way things will get done is if you, each and every one of you, get out there and do something. You have to create the movement, you have to make the youngsters listen to us now because it will be their turn later and we won’t be around to help them to see the error of their ways.
At 77 what I want is not to be “treated” by my “gummint” but rather to be LEFT ALONE by it, and for them to honor the commitment they made when they took my FICA deduction out of every paycheck for 50 years. I won’t even complain about the 40 years by husband paid in before his death going into their collective pockets. I expect honor in the COLA increases not the statistical lies of FED-created inflation which grossly underestimate the devaluation of the dollars supposedly held in trust for me from my 50 years of supporting myself. As for receiving respect from the younger generations, handsome is as handsome does, and they will soon enough find out whether respect for elders should have been maintained. As for respect for God and His morality, they will also find out about that when they reach the pearly gates.
I wonder what that young knife/car/gun murderer is suffering at the hands of St. Peter right now, and hope He can make some allowance for the boy’s mental disabilities and his lack of proper raising by his parents.
these 20 to 50 year olds are in for a rude awaking. They will soon be in their senior years. What a shock! When they need health care. I hope they will suffer like the rest of us seniors are to day.
WHAT CAN BE SAID about a country that rewards the rich with all they want and control the economy with their greed. even now the oil companies are wanting to sell the oil being pumped out of the ground overseas so they can make more money. wonder why they want the pipeline built to texas there is a seaport there and access to the panama canal. then they increase wages to those poor souls who have multi million dollar salaries already and use their wealth to manipulate the stock market. i am 76 and feel i have a little common sense left the next election can start a turn around , but we must vote for responsible candidates that can’t be bought. LARRY
PS; Folks once our parents are gone, once we are gone- for many of us are from an era that remembers how it once was. When things were so much better we honored our parents and older people. But once the older people and your parents are gone so is a way of life that was America for all of us. If ‘they’ have their way, so will the books that tell the history of what we once were in our nation. Once all of that is gone and people are just as most are already, there will be nothing left of the Constitution, the honor we were built with, nor the faith of God that had most people in church on Sundays and putting what they learned there into practice in their lives. If we do not honor our older folks, remember to include them or learn as much as we can from them, that precious knowledge will be gone. Yep, the younger always think they are the better and the smarter of all that came before, but that is not true. The removal of God, the removal of rules, expecting truth, honest dealings and to care about others will make people a very evil mass of humanity. My prayers and hopes are that something happens to us that turns everyone around to the foundation we were meant to be and grow into a great nation and people again. We were the world’s hope and now others seem to see better than American’s do about how to live and how government should be. Once the One World Order is in place there will be nothing left of what we were, but folks quietly talking in private when no one else can hear. For to speak the truth or about the past will be inlawful…..to talk at all unless to show allegiance to the leader….
I am ashamed of what has happened to our nation and that people have not stood up to the government for doing this to us in so many ways. We are mice that are certainly NOT in the footsteps of our forefathers . It was those folks that stood firm in the face of all odds building this nation into something great, strong, honorable and patriotic. But in the years, since Vietnam especially, we have slowly given up all that we have stood for and that so much of what the world admired. We were not an experiment; we were an exceptional nation, but we have failed ourselves in turning from God whom enabled us to be a wonderful nation. We have become immoral, lazy, greedy, lacking in understanding or intelligence that to give in to the world; instead of standing straight and proud for God, has torn our great freedom, patriotism and way of life to pieces and now we will pay for this in the worst way. Others have suffered so much in the world prior to us…but I guarantee unless we change our ways fast and turn back to honor, faith and who were founded to be…WE WILL SUFFER THE MOST OF ALL. God forgive us and bless us once more with sense!
One more comment before I get off of here. I believe that NO ELECTED OFFICIAL, right up to the President of these United States should be ABOVE THE LAW!!!!! If you vote in legislation that is not for the betterment of this nation and EVERY LEGAL CITIZEN who lives here, you are not doing what we elected you to do in the first place. “We the People” should have the right to remove you from office and prosecute you to the fullest extent of the law, before you have time to do more damage or vote in more legislation to hide behind!!!!! Just saying!!!
I have said it before and I will say it again. We should examine the way each of our elected officials vote on every bill that goes before them. They need to be held accountable for what they are doing to citizens of this once great nation. We elect them to represent us in Washington. That is, to do what is best for us, not make themselves rich at our expense. By checking their voting record we should be able to tell who is working to better our lives, not just the rich and powerful of this country. I know the temptation of millions of dollars in payoffs must be great. But, we must vote in people who have the backbone to resist these temptations and remove from office the ones who are greedy and want to steal from the poor an the ones who fought and died or became permantly disabled to protect these freedoms we enjoy still today. Tho they are slowly and surely stealing these rights and privalidges away from us to make themselves and large corporations richer, they have to be held accountable!!! That’s the only way we are going to get this nation turned around and back on track. If they are not working for us, they ARE working against us. Remove them from office and try them for treason or what ever . By examining the way they vote on these issues we should be able to figure out who is and who is not working for us. Prosecute them and put them in jail like any other criminal!!!!!
Teacher, mother of three,librarian, and as a senior a community volunteer still active and very much alive.
Now on a single retirement income I have just had to file bankruptcy. The Social Sec. COLAS are shameful compared to what the Feds have stolen and spent. The one thing I hate most is being called “sweetie”, or “dear” by some snotty young store clerk.
Carol,
You are so right! Add “honey” to the list of ‘make the hair on my neck stand up’. I, too, have just filed bankruptcy in order to saty in my home. And it wasn’t because of high-living. Try huge increases in food/gas/utilities, but very little increase in Soc. Sec. What a shame. Good luck to you and to us all!
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.!!!!
These people are stuffing their pockets with so much payoff money and so called perks that they should not need any government assistance when they get ready to retire. That’s the reason they are not worried about social security. They will vote to reduce pensions where and when they can to the point our seniors connot live on what they draw, while voting to increase their pay checks every chance they get. Greedy, greedy, greedy!!! May God NOT have mercy on their souls!!!!!!!!!
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?