Reply #18: Thank God for my hardware store job

[NBachers]

I'm 61 and I'm lucky enough to work at a locally-owned, well-established hardware store. I can apply all the years I've put in on construction and building maintenance jobs. I feel valued, and am able to contribute to peoples' lives every day. One of my co-workers is 81.

Unfortunately, there's a giant new Lowe's scheduled to open up in our town next month. It's a behemoth. I'm going to stay where I am, but I'm very apprehensive of what this store will do to our business.

Raising the retirement age to 70, when people can't even find work to retire from, is reprehensible. It's a blatant attempt to kill off Social Security recipients before they can even collect.

Yes- they want to kill millions of people off and keep their money. It's all the rage these days. It's going to get worse.

I agree 100% with the people who ask, "How many of you have been voting Republican all these years?"