Can there be any
doubt that our society deliberately targets the elderly and preys on their
insecurities? Consider the greed
merchants. Bernie Madoff used his
twisted mind to bilk a few thousand seniors out of large amounts of money. Drug companies use their advertising
dollars to bilk comparatively small amounts of money from millions of seniors.
We have products that cater to ailments ranging from incontinence to loss of
hearing. The elderly are promised free motorized chairs, stair lifts, risk free
investments, pain free existence and better sex.
We have Reverse
Mortgages, Sub- prime mortgages, low interest loans, high interest credit cards
and governments who continue to tax citizens who have contributed to government
coffers for sixty or seventy years.
We tend to shuffle our elderly into
institutions and watch as they become less and less capable and more and more
lost.
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