Yeah I get all that. I'm not a fan of the whole Social Security plan but until it changes it's what we have.
I still don't buy the low income starting work earlier though. Lots of kids start working in high school to get gas/car/insurance money. We grew up really poor, and my dad was in and out of the hospital with 2 kidney transplants and dialysis. I screwed around in school and didn't have a scholarship so I graduated early and went into the Air Force. No college. I worked until I was able to get in the USAF (at age 17).
Many times the reason people are low(er) income is because they didn't do what was required to get out of the vicious cycle. My sister never did. She stayed home and worked crap jobs, had a kid from some random guy, and lived on benefits. She kept getting bigger and bigger until her liver started dieing, and eventually she died of liver failure. Sad part is she actually had a scholarship and took 2 years towards a nursing degree, but she decided one day she didn't like all the work it took so she dropped out.
Some people just don't want to work, or are plain old lazy. It isn't black and white.
Yeah I get all that. I'm not a fan of the whole Social Security plan but until it changes it's what we have.
I still don't buy the low income starting work earlier though. Lots of kids start working in high school to get gas/car/insurance money. We grew up really poor, and my dad was in and out of the hospital with 2 kidney transplants and dialysis. I screwed around in school and didn't have a scholarship so I graduated early and went into the Air Force. No college. I worked until I was able to get in the USAF (at age 17).
Many times the reason people are low(er) income is because they didn't do what was required to get out of the vicious cycle. My sister never did. She stayed home and worked crap jobs, had a kid from some random guy, and lived on benefits. She kept getting bigger and bigger until her liver started dieing, and eventually she died of liver failure. Sad part is she actually had a scholarship and took 2 years towards a nursing degree, but she decided one day she didn't like all the work it took so she dropped out.
Some people just don't want to work, or are plain old lazy. It isn't black and white.