Re: OT: AARP

jmorngstar@xxxxxxx wrote:

I think that it is lucky that you are not planning on
having SS to support yourself. The carrot was dangled for us, and yet
we were told the same thing.

It is true that it's better to know something bad and deal with it head on than never having known. And I actually do feel sad that the carrot was dangled for you, and I doubt you'll even ever see the full benefit of what you put in.

You
happen to be a very responsible person, but I have many friends, whose
children are still at home, because the kids cannot make the leap to
their own lives.

I've seen that happen, and I think it's sad, too.

I don't know what I wish that your generation would picket
about.

I tell you, I was thinking about this all morning whilst I was going about my chores. ("Whilst..." I have always had a bad habit of picking up peoples' writing idiosyncracies when I read a lot of it.) I can tell you what I *would* picket about were I to have an opportunity to picket--but it really doesn't matter because the change I want to occur has to happen within the human heart and I am of the firm belief picketing doesn't change human hearts. Also, my generation's methods are different. The will to make change exists, but the methods differ.

I also think we are more in survival mode, and can't think past next paycheck and next mortgage payment to find time to do much protesting.
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