To the Woman Behind Me in Line at the Grocery Store

[maddiemom]

64. Wonderful story with a punchline far different from what we were led to expect.

I am a well-educated and fairly healthy senior citizen. I do a lot of volunteer work and have worked minimum wage jobs as possible to supplement my Social Security. It's a very
long story as to how I ended up nowhere near the comfortable retirement that I had every reason to expect, and that my parents and grandparents experienced starting out with less advantages than I did. Suffice it to say, it had nothing to do with laziness or over reliance on "entitlements." Neither was there any one-time financial disaster, just the sort of "chipping away" that many others have experienced. My adult daughter, who started out with the best advantages possible, has a far more "iffy" future. Both of us have a very small degree of security due to family investments stemming from our "less advantaged" parents and grandparents. Times have really changed, and Paul Ryan is a hypocritical jerk with no sense of empathy for those of us living in the real world.