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In reply to the discussion: I gotta rant on the pension cuts in the funding bill, it made my 77 year old mom cry! [View all]ReRe
(10,597 posts)I just want to slap the smart-ass Republican that mouths off about some such shit that he has no idea what he's talking about. Exceptionalism: bunk. The first time I noticed these kinds of thieving shenanigans going on was back in the 80s (I think) with the BCCI scandal. And they have happened over and over again since then. The S&L scandal, Nationwide, the dot.com bubble, Enron, the housing bubble, Sept 14, 2008, no sacrifice for the war (just put it on our "credit card" . And little by little they are taking their pensions. Oh yeah, and Bernie Madeoff in the middle of it all. It's been down hill ever since Reagan. The money went somewhere, now didn't it? It just didn't disappear into thin air. From our pockets to theirs (the 1%.) My Mother passed about 7 yrs ago. And the stars lined up for her and she did not have to go to a nursing home. Had it not worked out that way, us kids would have pulled together and made sure she was taken care of. It's not right. Your Dad worked all those years and should have gotten a full pension. All you can do is hug her tight and tell her everything's going to be alright, that you are going to take care of her.