Social security crisis

It was early spring in the year 2048 and my bithday was coming up this August 26. I would be turning 70 years and retirring. I am not looking forward to it as much as I thought. My whole life I dreamed of moving to Florida and living on the beach when I retired. I planned on traveling a lot seeing the great sites the country has to offer. All of these plans have changed instead my yougest son is putting an addition on his house so that I could move in. I am very thankful for what he is doing, but I really don't want to go. I want my privacy and I'm sure he wants his too. There is no other choice I worked as long as I could but I'm just getting to old. We all agree that I am not going into a nursing especially me.

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Social Security Poster: old man

Ida May Fuller, the first recipient

If the government would have told us that they couldn't solve the Social Security crisis almost 30 years ago I would have prepared better. But instead they promised they could save it and the program would still be aruond when I retired. They obviously lied and now I have nothing. Moments later I hear music its my alarm clock. It was only a dream its April 1996 and I'm 18. The article about the Social Security in the paper had me thinking and I must have a bad dream.

The Presidential election will be coming up this November '96 and the question that many of Americans have on their mind is what are you going to about the Social Security crisis? This question has our nation divided between generations. The elder people of our nation (ages 50 and up) feel confident that Social Security will be there for them and...