Medicare and Social Security are my red line with the Democratic Party

[Honeycombe8]

74. You've been getting a paycheck since age 10 or 11?

If you had a child's job, they didnt pay you in cash?

I will be grandfathered in, because I'm 58. I hope. Because I don't have time to make up the rules being changed. I'm hanging on until I can get Medicare.

Still, it's possible that eventually they'll get to changing the rules for those who are nearing 65, esp. the other kinds of changes.

And it's not fair to those coming after me, even if I get mine when it was promised. I have personally felt the fear of losing my job before reaching 65 and not being able to find another that provides insurance, and using my life savings buying insurance. I wouldn't wish others to go through that AND have to tack on another 2 years to that fear.

I have a semi-physical job. I'm the oldest person I know doing it. I look much younger.....I do NOT mention age, so hopefully I pass for younger. If I can't do certain things, which are physical and which the body may fail me on, I will lose my job. I have to be able to tote heavy boxes to and fro (I can use a dolly), carry redropes of heavy documents quickly to others, walk blocks quickly to and from courthouses and other locations (I'm a trial paralegal). It's not the same for me as it is for an executive.

It shouldn't be this way. I've been working since my teens. I've played by the rules.