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It is hard to sort the wheat from the chaff when it comes to the Social Security. Will the system survive through 2033, the current drop-dead date for full benefit funding? Are cuts in the program really necessary? Is killing off Social Security the ultimate wet dream of sadistic billionaires without regard to the realities of the system?
The solution to the problems of social security is right before our eyes and nobody is talking about it.
Work is the new retirement.
http://agonist.org/work-is-the-new-retirement-saving-social-security/#sthash.rHCW7cM3.dpuf
GiaGiovanni
(1,247 posts)It's incredibly disheartening.
K & R
GP6971
(31,146 posts)Approaching their full retirement age plan to continue working. This has some of the younger employees upset.........I overheard a couple of them complaining that it was limiting their opportunities for promotion.
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)because they cannot afford to retire.
GP6971
(31,146 posts)duffyduff
(3,251 posts)CAN'T get a job at all.
shraby
(21,946 posts)That's when it begins to get earnest about not being up to maintaining a life style.
I thought it was 45!
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)Wall Street wants that money, and they will get it eventually.
PowerToThePeople
(9,610 posts)except, elderly are discriminated against in the work force. So, work until the corporations no longer have use for you. Then you can go off and die.
"If they'd rather die then perhaps they had better do so and decrease the surplus population"
duffyduff
(3,251 posts)I've been victimized by it, and I NEED to work.
GP6971
(31,146 posts)Thankfully I was able to find something. At much better pay, but coming from the grocery industry doesn't say much.. At least I'm working which I feel lucky about.......could be much worse.
duffyduff
(3,251 posts)I am here in southern Oregon now, which is an awful place to find work, because I had no choice but to leave another state.
I was 53 when I was illegally sacked.
All I can get are substituting jobs, which I can't support myself doing.
Downwinder
(12,869 posts)shanti
(21,675 posts)Not a future that looks good...