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Dec 14, 2024 10:52 PM
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kmikl
TBH, if the fellow is working because he *HAS*, this is a tragedy.
I know some retirees that go to work because otherwise, they're extremely lonely and have little in the way of companionship. No less a tragedy, if I'm being honest.
JackingMeHoff
When Trump and his Republiturd goons cut Social Security & Medicare benefits seniors will enter the workforce.
UncleVenoM
While I agree in the overall sentiment, you never know the individual story and why. I have someone in my family, for example, who is a complete fuck up and is going to work till 99 because they refuse to make any good decisions about money or holding a meaningful job or saving for the future in any way. Social security helps but you have to do SOME forward thinking effort in life. Not saying that's this guys story.
Fabulously
Slacker
divingin
OP: I agree with the tone of your post. The reality, however, is that the right thing happening is still a rarity in this country.
knupauger
But because everyone only talks about it on social media and waits for others to start the uprising, nothing ever happens.
rivitingone
Now the 90 y/o veteran will quickly deteriorate because the 90 y/o veteran was staying active at work and now sits around the house watching TV. At least, that's what happened to my dad. He had a job to keep active, and I was astounded at how fast he deteriorated when he became sedentary.
SquirrelWithATophat
There are countless other ways to stay physically/mentally active that don't involve working a job. It's absolutely reprehensible to even suggest that having to work until the day you die is "healthier" than being able to retire in your old age.
IrishBarBalm
I'm only 41, and it already takes extreme effort every morning I have to crawl out of bed and go to work. 50 more years of this shit? Just shoot me now.
cuttysark
I totally agree with you, I just think showing your point instead of its opposite might be a better example.
JohnBluehill
SquirrelWithATophat
My guess is they're either a Russian troll or only read the title and didn't even bother reading the content before jumping to a wildly incorrect assumption.
BalognaTony
He paid his share, can't even get it
Munchman347
Troops “will not be persuaded to sacrifice all views of present interest, and encounter the numerous vicissitudes of War, in the defense of their Country, unless she will be generous enough on her part, to make a decent provision for their future support.” G. Washington.
Eiladar
It is not a feel-good story, but it is a story about society surviving in spite of its own leaders.
monkeyontherun4
Fuck there is an older woman that works as a checker at a grocery near me. I always feel bad that she has to keep working when she's like 70 or 80. It's brutal.
ChosenChaos
Does she HAVE to or is it a way for her to get out of the house and meet people on a regular basis?
monkeyontherun4
True, guess I just made the assumption.
DeepFriedAndSanctified
You want to see what a revolution actually looks like? Go back and look at the Summer of Love. Hundreds of thousands protesting, gathering, singing protest songs, sit-ins, love ins, music festivals. Heck, if you want to go low rent, look at the Occupy movement. Thousands upon thousands of people camped out in protest. This isn't Revolution. This is just a bunch of memes.
Rogahar
It's not framed as that because they want people to presume he just "didn't work hard enough" or was "bad at saving money" or something ambiguously easy to lay the blame on that isnt "was abandoned and ignored by the welfare systems meant to protect people like him because we gutted its funding to pad our bonuses."
Mr21782Man
90 year old vet working at a grocery store in Lousiana. I'll put $20 on him voting Trump and was proud of it.
Ifekinlovesauerkraut
Judging people just by their age. Good job, shithead, I hope you experience the same in the future, you deserve it.
Mr21782Man
Yeah, I did. We call that "statistics". Older people tend to vote more for Trump. Louisiana overwhelmingly (80%) voted for Trump. So he's in place that votes for Trump in a demographic that votes for Trump.
Like2Fox
DigiT00l
And the one truly feel good story of the year they are desperately trying to spin into not a feel good story
VibratingNipples
Soon this will be the reality for millions of elderly once Trump gets into office
letsgototheoldfolkshome
The elderly crushing machine has been *temporarily* switched off
Ifekinlovesauerkraut
For like 2 secs, because of a pebble.
WhatzitTooya
But only to install a bigger funnel so it can crush more per hour.
battleofhastings1066
But only for this guy. The crushing of all of the other elderlies will continue apace.
johnxbear
We gotta get talcum powder from somewhere
TheFrostyOak
Not even temporarily, more like momentarily. Just a moment, for that one guy. So many others like him out there needing a moment too. It's sad.
MrImmaculate
The system is operating exactly as designed. You are exploited for as long as your labor generates wealth, and disposable when it no longer can. It's time to make some changes to the design. But, in the immortal words of some jackass's uncle:
DeserTimmy
Someone once said that these feel good stories read like 80s propaganda stories about life in the Soviet Union.
Child sells lemon water to help starving neighbors, 90 year old man finally able to stop working thanks to generous townspeople, citizens chip in to help pay the hospital bills for little girl who suffers from disease she could have been vaccinated against, meager public living space generously provided to armless man by the factory he worked for before he became armless.
LoitninStroik
It's been said before and better, but the U.S. has become everything they used to claim in propaganda against the U.S.S.R. and others.
edgeofadhesion
The US has always been like that, as have us Brits. The only difference is that because we are the self designated 'good guys', it was easier selling it to the people.
SeledkaRunner
Excuse me, our healthcare was free 😂 Your former commie comrade
TransAutisticMakinFARTsGoBallistic
(the factory made the man armless and only gave the space as an out-of-court settlement to avoid bad publicity)
MouseCheese1
thisisagreatusernamedontworryitswonderful
Dude, between the infrastructure, medical care, poverty/homelessness epidemic, alienating city structures, the USA is a goddamn third world country if you don't make 6 figures, and that's lowballing it in some parts of the country
TransAutisticMakinFARTsGoBallistic
Nicest third-world country you'll ever regret visiting!
TheConnArtist
Someone need to play the national anthem badly one the recorder.
Fundungler
I get nervous when I know anyone travelling to the US.
RedLetterMediaReactionGifs
I get nervous about the thought of leaving the US. I'm so fucking embarrassed and ashamed of this shitshow that I trap myself here.
stabthecrab
You want to know how american politicians treat our veterans, just go to a VA hospital.
They are fucking underfunded shitholes. When pharma and insurance are not involved in medicine, the funding is nil.
It’s a fucking disgust
FullBrindleJacket
I’ve been to three and they were all good. The one in New Orleans is PHENOMENAL. I’m not disputing what you’re saying, maybe I’ve just been lucky. But I think the general belief is that they are bad because of Walter Reed. Maybe some still are. I just worry about the talk to privatize the VA for “efficiency.” This is the most efficient healthcare I have ever had in my life.
crookedhindlegoni
Some are great, some are complete pieces of crap with computers that predate the 90s. Had good ones in Sturgis, while rapid city was horrible. But the census has been horrible. I also hear Colorado is pretty good with their facilities.
huffnpuff72
Imagine if the hospital system was built such that any patient could get treatment at any hospital. No VA hospitals, no 'in network' hospitals. Just hospitals for patients.
LoitninStroik
Blasphemy! We pray only to the God of Greater Profits and his son Unregulated Capitalism, and they thirst for the blood of the vulnerable. You should feel honored to be their sacrifice!
ElbowDeepInAJedi
One of the things I was told when I got out of the Navy was "If your private medical insurance company asks if you are a veteran, say no. Otherwise they will try to deny service and send you to a VA hospital and then you'll get no service from either of them "
picklesue
That's just the reality of having 2 insurances in the US
ElbowDeepInAJedi
That too. I got supplemental dental about a month ago to cover some work I was going to get done because my primary dental didn't cover it. Now (3 days ago to be specific) when I went to get the work I find out that it's more because even though the 2nd insurance is covering it, my STATE had a program where certain procedures were capped at an agreed upon price if your insurance didn't cover them. But since the 2nd insurance does cover them, the state guaranteed price is no longer valid. FML
Onebigcanuck
Not for long I guess. Pretty soon they won't be funded at all.
Hashbrown123
Why give money to "suckers" and "losers"?
Onebigcanuck
Well that's a lesson learned by Herbert Hoover when dealing with the Bonus Army.
Sonicschilidogs
Hoover also learned about tariffs.....