Back in the late 70s the School of Mining and Technology in Socorro NM had a yearly festival where they raffled off a pound very openly. My band played for a couple of those events, and the students would drop off drinks and joints on the stage, so we could join in without taking a break from the music. Good times, my ...more

I'm sorry for your problems. It sucks when you don't get what you were promised. However, does it do any good to attack others who are getting nothing more than what they were promised? How is it better if they get screwed too?

Social security will exist, unless we vote in people who will take it away. It is sound for quite a few years, and even without changes it can still pay partial benefits after that. There are several simple fixes which would extend the health of the system for years beyond.

If you are paying for, and getting health insurance at a job, you absolutely do not have to also pay medicare. Get informed, or it will cost you money.

If you are at the top of SS benefits, you will draw about 30,000 per year, which isn't that bad a return on what went in. As far as your alternative, if you had invested, and the market tanked, which it did just a few years ago, you might or might not have that money left.

Excuse me, but what part of "Wrongful foreclosures and overcharged mortgages and foreclosed on people who never missed a payment" did you miss in reading this article?

My goodness, Bud, you are barely coherent,. I think the situation may be a tiny bit more complex than you realize. However, your massive hostility to everyone whom you deem to be a "Liberal" saddens me. If it wasn't for those liberals, you wouldn't have a Social Security check to look forward to.

Let's look at life before 1950. Generally, old people lived with their families, often in a multi-generational house that had been acquired and expanded across many years. Kids knew their grandparents, family stories and wisdom were available at the breakfast table.  For me, that would be a nightmare, I want privacy, a...more

I see your somewhat acerbic point, but I think it may miss the mark for some of us. I'm "only" 63, but i play guitar in one band that has members who are 19, 20, and 21. They think I'm interesting and fun. My other band ranges from 34 to 50 year olds. We have a great bond in music and life. Oddly, in this area, most pe...more