There are over 50 million elderly and disabled Americans receiving Social Security payments. Not all, but many of these people depend on their payment to just provide for their own basic needs. For full disclosure, my five-year-old handicapped daughter receives an SSI payment.

The U.S. is already $12 trillion in debt, not counting unfunded promises like Social Security and Medicare, and the current administration wants to add $1 trillion per year for the next ten years to that number. At what point does such an unstable financial system collapse?

If this article gets you to think about things in a way that will make you more likely to find that niche for yourself in the area of making a difference in the world, then it will have served its intended purpose.

The good ole days, when neighbors sat outside and got to know each other. That was a time when we knew we could depend on others.

An article about how our Government has let us down.

While maltreatment of the elderly may not be a new phenomenon only recently it has come to the attention of the public as social problem.

My view on elderly people still driving and why something should be done about it.

We often wonder what will be our reactions during some type of major disaster or crisis. Will we behave as we expect ourselves to? Will we do everything by the book as we had planned?

There is more than a young generation lost in this nation, consider the elderly.

A local newspaper resorting to using less paper, less news, and smaller print.