Fixed Income

Lately in the news we hear of elderly folks held up by rising medical and gasoline costs...because they live on a fixed income.

You know what? I ain't elderly and my check last Friday was the exact same as it was two Friday's before, and two Friday's before that. At 38 I also live on a fixed income. Ain't going up, ain't going down. No one's crying for me.

What the hell does that term mean, fixed income? When you consider that there are annual cost of living adjustments made to social security, no one falls into strict accordance with the term. It's a farce to make current wage-earners feel guilty about social inequities between members of the last generation. You know who's really on fixed incomes? Migrant farm workers.

Not only do I have to hear about this on the news, but did you ever stop to consider that in between the news we're overrun with elderly-targeted prescription commercials? I guarantee every break on the NBC evening news since 2005 had at least one drug commercial. Mostly prescription, but oftentimes OTC. Overrun. So is it really a crime that someone on a supposed fixed income can't afford skyrocketing rates for recreational drugs that cost 65% more than they need to to compensate Big Pharma for their advertising budgets? Is it?