This September 11 is National Grandparents Day. While some grandparents across our nation might get a telephone call or a note from a loved one, it is more important to focus on more crucial issues facing older Americans.
Retirement and how to afford it, is one critical issue that concerns seniors. Our healthcare costs have soared. A new study by Fidelity says couples need $260,000 in retirement just to pay our end of Medicare premiums and out-of-pocket medical costs.
These high medical costs are why it's necessary that retirees have a loud voice in Congress, in Washington, D.C. and in our own state capitals, to fight to preserve the healthcare and earned retirement benefits we earned.
Members of Congress are paying more attention this year because election season is the perfect time for seniors to stand up and be heard. They want our votes. Suddenly, we're visible.
I'm a member of the non-profit group ProtectSeniors.Org, which advocates for retiree protections. It is critical for all retirees to get behind this retiree protection group to save their hard-earned benefits. This year and next, let's hope that Congress does more for America's grandparents than just sending a "Grandparents Day" card.
I’m not picking any side as to who I want for president. But the one commercial ad, cutting down Trump for having clothes being made in other countries, caught my attention.
I’m willing to bet almost every household in America has something made in another country.
There is hardly anymore dewing factories and shoe factories around. They went to other countries where the wages are cheaper.
I used to live in Lebanon County. I remember how the guys in my school hoped to work for Bethlehem Steel companies in the areas.
Guess what? They are all almost 100-percent gone!
I hope this opinion of mine sheds a light to the issue.
I have lived in the little town of Rexmont all my life. I was born at home and still live on the same street.
Throughout the years there have been changes which are for me hard to handle, and many things happen I don’t understand.
Years ago my family loved to hike the mountains, finding wild mushrooms. All that ended when the golf course got started. There are no little grocery stores in the town, no factories, barber shops and the list goes on.
The recent loss in the carnival grounds (known as that years ago), as was the playground. Everything was removed including the memorial stone. This is a big hurt not to see it standing there. The property is for sale and makes you wonder what’s going to happen. Another development?
This is a town that is non-commercial but the golf course is there and a restaurant. How does that happen? For years when the townhouse development started there was only one way in and one way out, isn’t that flag pole property?
I do know things change and we have to go with the flow but we still have our feelings about things and thank goodness I have my memories of the times that I felt safe, happy, loved and cared for from relatives, friends and neighbors.