My father told me when I was a teenager: “Capitalists will sell you the shovel to dig your own grave.” Over 30 years later this has come true today.
This Left of the Dialogue will talk about how we got here and how we can dig ourselves out of this mess. The fact is as psychiatrist Allen Frances, MD wrote in his book Twilight of American Sanity President Trump is not the problem. He is a symptom of American’s pathological collective psyche.
In every sphere of my writing and conversations I choose not to write about politics anymore at all. This is because Americans are accountable for what is going on that elected leaders are doing.
An 87-year old woman told me the other day: “Sometimes you have to buck up and do something you don’t want to do.”
In terms of advocating for others who are disenfranchised or marginalized this is exactly true. It’s because of my earliest experiences in life that were documented in my memoir Left of the Dial that I wanted to act as a cheerleader for peers who are told (often by mental health staff!) that there’s not much we can do.
My overarching goal is to influence peers to choose hope over helplessness. Together we can go after our goals with gusto. It’s because Americans like you and me can’t rely on the government that I’m going to begin posting to this blog competitive strategies for getting ahead in the world of work and in the arena of life.
The president is set to raise from 67 the age at which Americans can collect our government social security retirement benefits. Along with needing to work until 70 to get these payments the money we get will be reduced. In effect we’ll be breaking our backs for capitalism until we’re nearly dead.
To have the capacity to work until we’re 70 I’m going to write in here about strategies for earning an income in this scenario.
Let’s face it our elected leaders are likely millionaires who won’t need our government retirement benefits to live on after they retire. For the rest of us Americans these benefits are often a lifeline even though the SSA check income is barely livable for those of us who had average wages or salaries during our working life.
In the coming blog entries I’m going to detail strategies for earning alternative income that can sustain us when we’re forced to work until 70.
Stay tuned.
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