Working Old People To Death, The Disposable Elderly 👥 Elder Gal

[appalachiablue]

- Elder Gal (EG), March 8, 2026. (12:43 mins). Older people, especially in the U.S. are having to work in retirement and past retirement age.

1 in 5 seniors are still out there working beyond age 65 because they don't have enough money.
Working at Walmart, often part-time as a greeter standing on your feet for hours is one example. But most people aren't healthy enough to do that. Seniors are also struggling in some other countries like the UK.

41% of people age 64 do not have any money saved for retirement. People are often unable to save because wages in the U.S. are so low. Younger people need to know the reality. 🔉

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1. It breaks my heart when I see older people working,

especially those standing. We should have done much better for them. Not everyone had a job where they could possibly put away savings for retirement.

[appalachiablue]

2. I agree, well said. It's appalling esp with the great wealth here in the US. It's going back to a very small

middle class and a large, struggling lower class. A return to horrid conditions in the Gilded Age and the era of Victor Hugo in France, Dickens in England and Europe with beggars on the street, crime, starvation, gangs, debtors prisons, workhouses for the poor and sick, and prison.

[appalachiablue]

3. Above, Read Interesting Posts in YouTube VIDEO'S Comment Section. Click *Watch On YOUTUBE*

In the *YouTube Comments for the Video above read about Lifting the Cap for Social Security/Medicare to cover more costs, doing something about very high medical costs that cause most of the bankruptcies in America, and much more...

READ ALSO, from DU's Senior Group:

The Shame Pipeline, How America Quietly Eliminates Its Poor & Elderly, Jan. 2026
https://democraticunderground.com/118313296
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* MUSK'S LEGACY: 75 year old "Stroke survivor can't access benefits as Social Security engulfed in 'turmoil' under Trump." Man Can't Drive, doesn't have a computer.
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.. The Indiana SSA worker told the Post of a recent case involving a 75-year-old man who recently suffered a major stroke that left him unable to drive to the local field office to verify information needed to change his banking information. The man also said he did not have access to a computer to help him change the information online...
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220897945