It`s fascinating how fat-cat columnists like William Neikirk, making far above the national average, talk about the ”overpowerful over 65 gang.” A person who worked for 50 to 55 years and contributed the maximum allowed, today at retirement draws about $760 in Social Security benefits-from that about $20 is at present withheld for Medicare.
With the government in its self-induced financial straits, witness how the well-rewarded lackeys are building the crescendo to tamper with Social Security, set up originally as a completely separate, self-financing old age insurance fund-not just for the poor but to assure a modicum of a decent existence in old age.
It has been reported that President Reagan took office with the intention of dismantling the social advances that Franklin Roosevelt introduced. Will it take another grinding depression to make us fight for the progress that we and our fathers battled so hard for?
