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<p>[QUOTE="fiddlehead, post: 6080148, member: 31286"]BTW, were you thinking that Social Security, when it was originally passed, was something "extra?". It was passed and accepted because so many people in their later years (which in those days was people lot of people over 50 - "most" people lived by the sweat of their labor, so... can't work, no money) were INDIGENT! The country was overwhelmed with older people who couldn't support themselves. Your children were your retirement plan. Are you planning to support your parents in their old age? Whew, I am so grateful I didn't have to and I've worked like hell to be sure my kids don't have to support me - but in 19th and first half of the 20th century, that was a way of life. Mom, or Dad, or both move in with us. Savings? not so much. Got a valuable suburban house to sell.... ? not in those days. Life is better for us now. I'm grateful for that and I hope it continues ... for my sake, my children and my grandchildren. I wish everyone could save money, but I have learned that not everyone can - it's not easy to do. It takes all of those things I mentioned before - luck, talent, hard work, and I would add the environmental circumstances to access opportunity - but then I think that is part of "lucK".[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="fiddlehead, post: 6080148, member: 31286"]BTW, were you thinking that Social Security, when it was originally passed, was something "extra?". It was passed and accepted because so many people in their later years (which in those days was people lot of people over 50 - "most" people lived by the sweat of their labor, so... can't work, no money) were INDIGENT! The country was overwhelmed with older people who couldn't support themselves. Your children were your retirement plan. Are you planning to support your parents in their old age? Whew, I am so grateful I didn't have to and I've worked like hell to be sure my kids don't have to support me - but in 19th and first half of the 20th century, that was a way of life. Mom, or Dad, or both move in with us. Savings? not so much. Got a valuable suburban house to sell.... ? not in those days. Life is better for us now. I'm grateful for that and I hope it continues ... for my sake, my children and my grandchildren. I wish everyone could save money, but I have learned that not everyone can - it's not easy to do. It takes all of those things I mentioned before - luck, talent, hard work, and I would add the environmental circumstances to access opportunity - but then I think that is part of "lucK".[/QUOTE]
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