Michael,
I, personally, could never receive the amount I put in, in five years. Not even considering gross inflation over those years. I still believe that those statistics showing this older generation as the richest, is skewed by a, relative, few that have amassed great wealth beyond the dreams of any one today. Many of the elderly I see on a daily basis on some of my visits to areas that so many are living in, are poor enough to need some assistance, and are embarrassed that they are in a position to have to ask for it. A lot of them are women who relied on husbands to take care of business while they stayed home and raised children and ran the home. In many cases, when the husband died, there was little, or nothing, left for hundreds of reasons, none of them really valid. I agree, the husbands done'em wrong, but that's not the fault of the women who were raised under those conditions.
I believe that the AARP is the organization making all the noise about more benefits. They do not represent the majority of the elderly that I know about. I do not agree with, nor enter in to, the demands of the AARP. The management of this organization has been taken over, and controlled, by bleeding heart liberals for quite some time, and I have no truck with them. You cite "the AARP's dream" and then say "the fear expressed by the elderly". The fear is that of the AARP to justify their existence, not, necessarily that of the majority of elderly citizens. The AARP claims to speak for all of the elderly, but they lie.
~;=;o --haqi |
