I'm 54 and I could SCREAM when I hear "anyone over 55 doesn't need to worry about Social Security"

[raging moderate]

144. Whatever goes around, comes around.

Of course, we cannot let the pensions be ruined for people 55 and under! We have to be like the early colonists, with their snake sign and the words under it, "Don't tread on me!"
Whatever goes around, comes around. That's what the Faux News seniors should remember. Who do they think they will be relying on for care in their last years, just as those people who are now 55 get thrown into extreme poverty? What sort of country will we be living in? What sort of world? You have to care about everybody! Because if the air is foul, then you cannot breathe either. If the social atmosphere is foul, then you cannot be happy either. If justice is denied to others, then you have lost some of your certainty of justice. Furthermore, once you are dead, you exist only in memories. As we get older, we have to expand our concern beyond our own (rapidly degenerating) skin, and learn to take vicarious pleasure in the larger happiness of the people and the creatures around us, and ultimately the whole human race and all creatures great and small.

I am almost 65, and am in my first stage of retirement on a teacher's pension. Although I did pay almost enough in social security payroll taxes to qualify, I have learned that I cannot receive any of it. Not even the usual widow allotment if my husband should someday die. You know what? So what? I don't begrudge anybody else anything. I have enough. And enough is a feast.

These truths are what the Republicons have forgotten (or, as in Mitt Romney's and Paul Ryan's cases, have never learned). And that is the hope we have, that many other people really have struggled and suffered and learned and changed and grown inside, and have learned these truths and others like them. They just don't realize what these people are really going to do, if they win this election. While I was canvassing, one man told us, "So what if Mitt Romney has lots of money? Why are you jealous of him?" He was surprised to learn that we are NOT jealous and do NOT want to take away Mitt Romney's money, but only want him and his buddies to stop trying to cheat others out of what they have worked for (I.E. social security pensions). Then he was able to listen to the Democrat with me, a small business owner like him, who explained to him that we are not the ones who are trying to run him out of business.
We have to all get out and talk to as many people as we can, listen to their point of view, agree where they are reasonable, explain our position, and do whatever we can to keep the miserable little lying narcissists currently in charge of the Republicon party from seizing even more power than they already have.