{"id":1360,"date":"2012-05-08T15:42:46","date_gmt":"2012-05-08T15:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1360"},"modified":"2012-05-08T15:44:11","modified_gmt":"2012-05-08T15:44:11","slug":"old-school-social-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1360","title":{"rendered":"“old school” social security"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was talking to a minister today who noted that the year Social Security was enacted in this country in 1935, the average life span for a white American was 62.9 years.\u00a0 (You couldn’t collect Social Security until you were 62-years-old.)\u00a0 Needless to say, in the early years the Social Security Fund was quite buoyant.\u00a0 Now the average life span of a white American is 79 years, and you can still start collecting at age 62.\u00a0 The SS Fund is currently in trouble.\u00a0 A question:\u00a0 “Does anybody remember when ‘social security’ was about the family and community making sure the local elderly were “socially secure?”\u00a0 That is, the elderly often lived with their children or other extended family.\u00a0 And for those without family nearby, there are now non-profit organizations like: Little Brothers, Friends of the Elderly<\/strong>.\u00a0 (We researched a chapter of this in Houghton, Michigan, during our travels.)\u00a0 Local volunteers, in effect, adopt an elderly person in the community.\u00a0 They meet socially with the elderly person\u00a0on a regular basis, provide rides, help clean the\u00a0person’s house, do other odd jobs…\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Note:<\/strong>\u00a0 Instead of myopically looking at just a one-dimensional fix to Social Security, we should be looking at a variety of creative local ways to help the elderly — like in the “old days.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was talking to a minister today who noted that the year Social Security was enacted in this country in 1935, the average life span for a white American was 62.9 years.\u00a0 (You couldn’t collect Social Security until you were …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1360"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1362,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1360\/revisions\/1362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}