The Social Security Injustice

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Too many seniors are suffering at the hands of the social security administration. The cost of living is going up while the benefits are going down.

It seems strange that to everyone else in the free world it is quite obvious that the cost of living has risen. Yet according to the social security administration it has not and therefore there is no need to raise seniors social security. So instead they have decided to make cuts.

While reading up on this subject I found an article http://peoplesworld.org/proposed-social-security-cuts-seniors-hit-millionaires-glide/ which states that next year social security is making some rather drastic cuts that will in turn make the rich richer and the poor poorer. 

My parents both receive social security and even with one of them still working they can barely keep their heads above water. This is the case with so many others. My father said to me one day "that's funny I thought the social security administration said the cost of living wasn't going up" while referring to the $3.09 gas price at the time. That is exactly the problem. The people in charge of making these decisions see all of these people as numbers on a piece of paper. They go by whatever crackpot statistic has been thrown at them.

It is time that the government looks at all of these people as people and not statistics. They do not see the countless individuals struggling with bills and not being able to do necessary tasks such as have their vehicles fixed, or having to decide which medicine to do without today. 

It is not only the current seniors that are suffering but the future generation of Seniors as well. This is due to fact that although very gradually, they want to keep raising the age limit for when you can receive social security benefits. I believe it is already preposterous that the age is 67 now and they want to continue to hike it up. Most people by age 67 have worked more than half their lives and most certainly deserve to be taken care of and receive all the hard earned money that they have put in. 

This age increase also causes more problems because there are already millions of people suffering with unemployment and some individuals would have to continue working  until they reach of age. The problem however is the fact that the trend in this country is to let more experienced older people go so that they can hire younger inexperienced individuals for much cheaper. All this is doing is stepping on those that deserve respect, help and understanding. 

This has got to stop. I for one hate knowing that people I love are being hurt by a system that is more than capable of taking care of them. Not only this but now it certainly seems that if the big wigs get their way, I and many others have the same or worse to look forward to when we finally get social security at almost 70 years old.