Things are bad and are going to get worse, before it gets better. The post war (WW2) boom is over...way over, in fact it was over 15-20 years ago. But, we the people, got used to enjoying the sheer luxury that working class people had never known before (the war) and never will again. Our spending habits didn"t change as the boom faded.in fact, they got worse. Yank out the plastic and charge it....have it NOW, worry about paying later.
So what has that got to do with old folks and no heat/medicine/so forth? I"ll tell you.
The old folks of today....are a product of the post war era, like I/we are. They became adults after the Depression and believed FDR"s New Deal would save them from what their parents suffered through, before there was a Social Security Administration and 99 other alphabet agencies, supposedly designed to save us from ourselves. But....the Boom ended about time the old folks were retiring. Their children (that"d be me..I"m 50) were used to having the benefits of the Boom years..I entered the work force before the boom was over in the late 70"s. Things were great! I made great wages, the best benefits, and working conditions were superb. I also seen all that end by the late 80"s.
Greed at the top began to take a sickening turn. The robber barons running the show weren"t happy to make $5 million a year...no....they wanted $20 million. The way to get it was....screw the workforce. Take the benefits away and end pay raises....so they could stick that in their pockets. The manufacturers decided to go to China and Mexico and India where they have no EPA, little to no taxes and pay .30 cents an hour to produce their goods...which they bring back here and dump on the market. We blame the Chinese....it"s not their fault. No...they welcome the greedy American moguls who come to invest their billions, so they can maximize profits. The manufacturers don"t want to pay us to make the goods...but they expect us to buy them.
Okay...so what does this economic lecture have to do with poor old folks? All those FDR social plans still in place that the old folks depend on, are funded by an ever decreasing tax base...while the mouths feeding from the pot are growing. In order to keep SS alive....the Government keeps increasing the taxes...this reduces take home pay..which reduces the standard of living for the working class. Pay more, get less.
Either the politicos running the show are going to have to grow some balls and do something, or a collapse will come. Then perhaps a Revolution. Change must happen.
Old folks can take a Homestead exemption on their house taxes..that should lower their taxes quite a bit. There are prescription programs available for those who cannot afford them....I know, I am on one. These folks need to talk to their doctor about it. I did and was introduced to a patient advocate from a local hospital and she set me up in a program that provides me with over $500 of medicine a month....free. How this works is: the Feds have never placed a cap on what the Pharmaceutical companies can charge for their goods in this country.....so they require that they give so much of it away for free. Of course they don"t tell it....but, there are people who know about it and can help you get the free medicines you need.
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