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In reply to the discussion: AARP statement on Social Security Cut... NO!!!!!! [View all]femrap
(13,418 posts)women live longer (up to now that is), and over the past 65 years we have been paid CONSIDERABLY LESS than men. As a result, we don't get as much Social Security.
And what if a large number of women had low-paying jobs on minimum wage? Just how does one set aside money if working a minimum wage job?
Or what if an older woman gets cancer or some other EXPENSIVE DISEASE and she is wiped out. It's easy to do. Have you ever been hospitalized in the past three years?
There are many ways that a woman can reach old age without a rich husband and a reliable income that doesn't entail PLANNING. It's just life...the cards she was dealt.
You know, 'by the Grace of Goddess go I...'
If anything is short-sighted, it's the Corporations who only see three months ahead....but they don't have to pay taxes, now do they? Hell, lots of them get money back....those minimum-wage women give the Corporations their tax dollars.
Empathy. Try to imagine yourself in another's shoes. Now I know lots of people are not capable of this....and they have a very bad name.