I gotta rant on the pension cuts in the funding bill, it made my 77 year old mom cry!

[Dustlawyer]

50. Yes, it has been so hard on them. The American Dream is really a nightmare.

My dad was a great engineer who always had his projects come in on time and under budget. No other engineer in his department ever had one project on time or underbudget. They started giving him two projects at a time when the Navy commissioned for them to cut a ship in half, build a new huge "mid-body", and put it back together. These ships would transport troops, vehicles, tanks, planes, helicopters, and the fuel to run them all on short notice anywhere in the world so we could immediately respond or start a war with a fully self contained platform to do it. He did two of these
The other project was his usual, building semi-submersible oil rigs to drill in the rough North Sea.
He coordinated all of the different crafts, thousands of men, who had to do their part at certain times so that he had to be good at estimating when he would need them so they weren't sitting around waiting for one craft to finish.
To have to interview after interview and not get a job, have another heart attack and keep going. Then risk everything you have to buy a failing business in something you have no background in and pull it off.
The stress and strain was hard on them both. Fighting insurance companies and congestive heart disease, watching the money go out so fast after working so hard to get it! Republicans should be protecting people like that since these are the kind of actions they say they respect.
All to have it stolen at the end, legally, is unbelievable! We have to act so this doesn't happen again! We have to make SS the third rail again and fry the next ones who touch it!