Here's a harsh truth about our country's situation. My parents are both in their early 80s. My father retired when he was 71 years old and my mother retired at 72.
My parents are Catholic, have 12 children and have never been on welfare, food stamps or any other type of government assistance in their entire lives. My father has never worked less than 2 jobs as far back as I can remember. One of those jobs was for a butcher/catering company so he could feed his kids meat twice a week. He has been a hero of mine in that regards and I as many of my siblings have taken his work ethic into our lives.
He's always provided for his children, even though I know there were times when he worried about making enough to feed and cloth us.
So I am pretty upset with our politicians the past 5 years. Not only has my father's small pension not been able to make any money for the past several years, but my father's pension has been cut by 30%.
He has worked for more than 50 years of his life, and he has been paying into Social Security for most of those.
Not only has he lost money from his pension plan but now he's forced to worry about his Social Security benefits as well.
He lives in a very small house, rarely vacations or splurges. Any extra money he has he spends on his grandchildren.
I really hate the fact that the party he's been voting for all his adult life is willing to compromise his benefits.
It's killing me.