Maintaining health in the younger years is great, but the old body has pieces parts falling off as we age. I stood on my feet twelve to fifteen hours a day for sixty years. That resulted in my requiring two knee replacements. My occupation required elevating my arms for many of my working hours. As a consequence, my ri...more

Social Security and Medicare are listed as "entitlements", but we have paid dearly for those benefits over our working years. The FICA taken from our earnings and the matching money the employer pays equals the take-home pay for most middle income families every month. If we had kept the money and invested it ourselves...more

This is nonsense for most of us older retirees who can't go back to work. We are looking for some method to make our money work for us. The government has stifled trade ,made it almost impossible to get a loan, ruined the housing industry, reduced interest income, taxed our social security and threatened to reduce Medi...more

The primary problem with social security is the majority of the income has been transferred into the general fund and squandered rather than being applied to its intended use. There should be an immediate change in procedure to invest the incoming funds not necessary for immediate social security payments rather than p...more