Robert Reich: Selling the Store: Why Dems Shouldn’t Put Social Security and Medicare on the Table

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21. My grandparents' generation contributed to Social Security only the last two decades of their workin

lives. My grandmother was a teacher, but still only worked a couple of years in Canada before marrying, and had no contribution. My grandfather contributed about twenty years, but had an excellent pension. No one in ever resented what he collected from SS(1955-1980). My grandmother collected his benefits for six more years. No one was complaining at the time. My Dad worked for forty years (excepting his service in WWII) and lived barely two years on a good pension. He had just began receiving SS when he passed away. My mom benefited from this, but had also been a working mom for years before it became the norm, and had paid into SS herself. No one complained. I worked for all but about ten years in my later teenage and adult life. I was married for twenty years to a man who "capped out" before the end of the year. I collect mostly from that, but have continued to work part time until just recently and may go back to part-time work because, at sixty-eight, I miss it. I am, however, A GREEDY GEEZER!