An Oldster's Jeremiad: A Gaffer's Ranting Grouse to Turn the Tap On--En Route to Pigs and Whistles

really don't think much to worry about specific to SS. It's all a money shuffle, when they start to get in trouble they just steal it from somwhere else IMO The trouble comes in when there is no place left to steal for anything Deep Ression. Then we get to start all over or so I am thinking now. Mark

Good job, Chuck. Cool butterfly, too! Thank god for IRAs and high-yield savings accounts. Pensions and social security will be antiqities come 40 years from now when I want to retire.... ~Jess -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ~ "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." - Thomas Jefferson ~ "Tonight's forcast: dark, continued dark tonight, turning to partly light in the morning..." - George Carlin

even if the meager portions of social security are available they are seldom enough... aware writing... thanks for sharing... Richard

Sharp political commentary and very smooth delivery. Social security? Hmmmm... another word for keeping folk on or often below the poverty line. In my experience it works for some sections of society but not others - especially not the young people we work with. Like this Chuck - and congratulations on a very well deserved spotlight my friend. Kaz It's impossible to smile on the outside without feeling better on the inside.

My father jokes that his retirement plan is pretending to rob a bank, and getting thrown into a larger prison. He says he likes the price of rent. lol

Smiles:) Barbara Hmmmmmm a real topic for discussion. Great write about it. Different formats in a poem tend to bother my eyes and confuse my understanding of the poem, but the way you wrote it and have it here is great no problems here, it even made clarity of the meaning even clearer.