I've had a lot a setbacks in life, as I'm sure many of you have had.
After all, most of us fall into the 99% or the 47% or some other percent that is not the 1%. Setback were due to a poor choice (who hasn't made one) now and then but, more often than not, they came as part of a circumstance not of my choice or control. I assume that when you have setbacks, like me, they affect you financially and sometimes in significant ways. All through the years, during the breakup of a marriage, illness, losing jobs, and trying to educate myself, in the back of my mind somewhere was the thought that when I was old I would be spared total destitution because I had paid into Social Security. It wasn't my only retirement plan but I did begin to worry that it would be when the stock markets took big hits a few years ago and my retirement fund reflected those hits. Do others here worry about just not having Social Security at all as someplace to land? I find myself thinking along these lines now and then. How do you survive in a world where older people are not valued? Does no one remember why the Social Security insurance was developed? Do so many younger people not realize that one day they will be old too and that nothing will work for you--body and spirit- in the way they used to?