Letters to the Editor
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This is news???!
This is news???!? For the past 3 years, the cost-of-living increase on my minute pension has been negated by increased costs for medical insurance, with a net loss every year. I just wonder how the elderly, particularly widows who live on their husband's social security benefit [or anyone else on a fixed income, for that matter], are surviving. And don't forget elderly single women, who don't have a "surviver benefit" accrued from their spouse's social security; how on earth anyone can live on under $500 a month is a mystery to me. I often think that it would be an interesting exercise, to have the lovely legislators in Washington "survive" for a couple of months on the income of which the rest of us have to "make do". Early after my divorce, with an infant child, I was working one full-time and two part-time jobs, in addition to the full-time parenting job; we were barely surviving. My son ate, I didn't. So, when I hear these Washngton sickos telling us platitude after platitude, I say "bah humbug" and hope that those who rejoiced at their tax refund are enjoying the poverty and lack of government services our country is facing.