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Message: <blockquote data-quote="vantexan" data-source="post: 5721492" data-attributes="member: 24302"><p>All old people who worked enough quarters get a SS check.  Many of them have other means like pensions, savings too.  Those who don't often live with others.  There aren't millions of elderly out on the streets.  And the government has assistance programs like food stamps.  My mother gets food stamps.  You'll blow right by this to scream how unfair it all is.  There's only so much that can be done and people have a responsibility to take care of themselves before anyone else does.  You don't care.  You want a huge central government controlling everything and everyone.  It was stupid when Marx wrote it and it's still stupid.  It doesn't work.  You want untold misery by hundreds of millions?  Go communist.  Will make the tough time poor seniors have today look like a lark in comparison.</p></blockquote><p></p>