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Originally Posted by Oerets
Take the time to ask a few of the working elderly when out, "why they are working"? Most I know it's not because they are bored and wanted to stay busy! It's because of expenses like health care and needing to eat.
The local McDonald's gives a voucher for a meal after four hours work. I have given rides to a couple of the workers in there seventies that do not drive any more. They walk over a mile one way rain or shine to work in the mornings. Had to go back to work to pay bills.
Barney
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Barney I just thank God that I worked for an honest company that still stands behind my pension. Paying $11,500 a year for Medicare and supplemental keeps us out of bankruptcy court. I did work until 73 because I honestly enjoyed teaching because I believe knowledge is to be shared. But then the company was bought out and reverted to big U.S. corporate theology and that was it.
Those poor people walking to work were tha same ones that built the scools the following generation were taught in, though not very well apparently.