One need only look at the plight of American retirees. While SS is said to have not been meant as a retirement plan, the reality is it’s a lot less remuneration than what is legal. The SS cost of living index has been low balled for years. Inflation at 10% and SS increase 2.8%, as an example. Thusly, year after year the purchasing power of that measly check is driving retirees out of decent housing and food. Were SS to do what the law requires, the massive numbers of homeless senior would plummet. So too would van and camper residency. Let’s not forget we all pay into the SS system for years. It’s a trust fund. Granted it is somewhat subsidized. The amount paid out per month is based on the lousy low wages paid to workers. And further disrespect is slung at the elderly retirees because it’s their fault for not planning ahead. Yet, the entire system is based on the paying low wages so that upper crust rising tides lift 500 foot yachts, and support six houses on six continents. That crust-amalgamated wealth came from small town merchants. America is littered with hollowed out zombie towns. As Ross Perot predicted, that “giant sucking sound” has become a crescendo. As for the middle class seniors slice of the ‘pie’, many thousands are nomads out on the deserts living in vans and dilapidated RV communities cast aside into subsistence survival. The destruction began under the seesaw Clinton and Baby Bush regimes.