Baby Boomers Retire
Most of us are retired or will be in the next one to two years if we have not lied to our employers and our spouses. Most of us who worked in the public sector, that is. We have our Social Security and retirement checks, dip into our retirement’s funds and some of us may have been luck enough to get stock dividends even today from the slavery days of old.
There is money out here and the establishment knows how to go after money if they do not know how to do anything else. After retirement I told a friend that my retirement resources would be eroded so fast it would make my head swim. At that time, eight years ago, cable bills were going up and AOL was doing strange things with our bills. Most of us had bought “retirement cars and homes,” finished putting most of the kids through college and ready to comfortably settle down.
The greed started gradually, most noticeably with the privatizing of sections of the military, different cell phones and cell phone plans escalating to higher fuel prices to prohibitive prices for food. I’ am mindful of people saying everytime they got a cost of living raise, prices would go up in the supermarkets and the relationship could be made, in my opinion, of the money now being controlled by the recent retirees. It was a stroke of genius to bring in the Latinos, giving them homes and free this and that to further erode our retirement checks. We will not be able to sustain this onslaught but that is another post for another time. Suffice it to say, America is in a free-fall now, every institution for himself to get as much money as he can, smile and feel he has fully taken advantage of The Land of Opportunity.
Many Blacks are also recipients of the 1933 Social Security act and retirement funds. In my opinion, many other Blacks and a lot of whites do not know how to deal with us. We are ‘uppity niggers’ to many in both groups. The Latinos who come to our homes wonder why, with our large Black population, why we have to deal with them to do jobs for us and not members of our own Black population.
The resentment is there and manifested in the work they do or do not do for us. We recent Black retiree can now afford to go into nursing homes. Good ones. A first for us. We do not have to be dependent on our relatives to take care of us as they did our grand-parents. There are adjustments to be made in the Black community in that regard. There is a vast difference between our retirement funds and those of a majority of the Blacks of old. The Black family structure has become different and in some cases, strained and don’t get me started on the Neo-con dominated medical profession re-actions to us.
I have already begun to hear some horror stories. Just last week going into a new doctor’s office, he came in and addressed me as BB and before anything else, I said “Listen here, I am Mr. BB and you are Dr. so and so”. You can imagine how the visit continued or to be more specific, its tempered ending. Can you imagine that doctor teaching and having people of color in his class?
In general, we recently retired Baby Boomers are not helpless. Most of us are educated and or have a field of expertise and are literate. I feel sad for the recent retirees who had plans of extensive travels. They never envisioned having the present pass port issues and the vitriol conduct directed now days towards Americans. To that group, I feel very sad. It was a life time dream for many of them and the world has yet to feel our influences as the retirees of the Social Security system. We now have highly educated and motivated children and grand-children.
Fighting for the dignity of my Ancestors,
God bless Bill Gates, WPFW, C-Span and the spirits of the unborn for the help,
BB
There is money out here and the establishment knows how to go after money if they do not know how to do anything else. After retirement I told a friend that my retirement resources would be eroded so fast it would make my head swim. At that time, eight years ago, cable bills were going up and AOL was doing strange things with our bills. Most of us had bought “retirement cars and homes,” finished putting most of the kids through college and ready to comfortably settle down.
The greed started gradually, most noticeably with the privatizing of sections of the military, different cell phones and cell phone plans escalating to higher fuel prices to prohibitive prices for food. I’ am mindful of people saying everytime they got a cost of living raise, prices would go up in the supermarkets and the relationship could be made, in my opinion, of the money now being controlled by the recent retirees. It was a stroke of genius to bring in the Latinos, giving them homes and free this and that to further erode our retirement checks. We will not be able to sustain this onslaught but that is another post for another time. Suffice it to say, America is in a free-fall now, every institution for himself to get as much money as he can, smile and feel he has fully taken advantage of The Land of Opportunity.
Many Blacks are also recipients of the 1933 Social Security act and retirement funds. In my opinion, many other Blacks and a lot of whites do not know how to deal with us. We are ‘uppity niggers’ to many in both groups. The Latinos who come to our homes wonder why, with our large Black population, why we have to deal with them to do jobs for us and not members of our own Black population.
The resentment is there and manifested in the work they do or do not do for us. We recent Black retiree can now afford to go into nursing homes. Good ones. A first for us. We do not have to be dependent on our relatives to take care of us as they did our grand-parents. There are adjustments to be made in the Black community in that regard. There is a vast difference between our retirement funds and those of a majority of the Blacks of old. The Black family structure has become different and in some cases, strained and don’t get me started on the Neo-con dominated medical profession re-actions to us.
I have already begun to hear some horror stories. Just last week going into a new doctor’s office, he came in and addressed me as BB and before anything else, I said “Listen here, I am Mr. BB and you are Dr. so and so”. You can imagine how the visit continued or to be more specific, its tempered ending. Can you imagine that doctor teaching and having people of color in his class?
In general, we recently retired Baby Boomers are not helpless. Most of us are educated and or have a field of expertise and are literate. I feel sad for the recent retirees who had plans of extensive travels. They never envisioned having the present pass port issues and the vitriol conduct directed now days towards Americans. To that group, I feel very sad. It was a life time dream for many of them and the world has yet to feel our influences as the retirees of the Social Security system. We now have highly educated and motivated children and grand-children.
Fighting for the dignity of my Ancestors,
God bless Bill Gates, WPFW, C-Span and the spirits of the unborn for the help,
BB
posted by BB at 9:06 PM
1 Comments:
Interesting and eye opening article...So true in many ways..It is always a good reminder to plan ahead and have enough dollars for retirement...Goodto pay of houses and cars and deal with rising gas prices, insurance raising etc...carol stanley author: "For Kids 59.99 and over" carolstanley1.com
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