If wages had risen as much as profits over the past fifty years, Social Security would be flush with money, the elderly would be housed.

@Pretzel no. We had massive elderly poverty before social security in all Western capitalist countries. That's history.

@Roundandroundwego no no I meant if the wages had increased we wouldn't need the checks from the govmint

I am collecting my check every month and very happy about it

@Pretzel elderly people still would. And did. No, no, no, no was what everyone in the USA who matters says anyway to entitlements. So, evil is okay there! You decide.

@Roundandroundwego there's always going to be a marginal group of people in any population that can't make it on their own

how the people of that country choose to deal with them...says a lot about them.

@Pretzel and it's already the law that all governments support them, even the USA is a member of the UN. How you manage to never mention that, how you misunderstand and avoid and never apply that does say volumes about the countries - well there's only one! - who speak that way.

@Roundandroundwego you can drop the word "you" in your comments

@Pretzel so you did mention those things? I missed it! Sorry.