Corporate America, which boasted more than 112,000 pension plans in 1985, has since terminated about 80,000 of them. As a result, the share of working Americans earning a pension has dropped from more than 35 percent in 1980 to less than 20 percent today.

And now the country is more and more seeing these seniors, who have worked all their lives, as responsible for their own retirement. “Why should we pay into social security when we won’t get anything out of it?” One occasionally hears.

Why? Because that’s what social security is supposed to be. A safety net for those who worked their whole lives but still don’t have enough to live on in retirement.

If this is the “Christian” country that so many claim it is (and on that count I have many doubts) then we should be lining up to care for the elderly, the sick and the poor. But instead American’s somehow have gotten the idea that people are poor because they deserve to be poor. Because they don’t work hard enough.

And now the elderly and retired are being tarred with that brush.

Bullshit.

Other nations–heathen and athiest nations in the eyes of some–care for the old and the poor. What excuse have we in the US for not doing the same?