[tehramz]

An even weirder thought:

What if we had a national system that you pay into your entire life that will privide a living wage to retire on, even if you didn’t save additional money?

Either that or maybe we can start blending up the uber rich in this country to make a cheap food source (like soylent green) to feed to the weakest amoung us (like the elderly).

It seems like our greed-stricken society has no desire to help those even when they worked their whole life to benefit society.

[T2_t2]

Data sources? Evidence? Anything at all to back this up?

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/america-new... That seems counter to you point. Got more than rhetoric here?

[jhbadger]

Charities are the exact opposite of what a generous society is, though. There should be no need for charity (or elderly people working) in a wealthy country. Charities should be for helping third worlders.