DEAR EDITOR:

Are seniors on the verge of being left behind?

We worked hard all our lives to provide for our families with necessities and comforts of life.

Now, we are seniors who helped make our country great and shored up the values of our wonderful Constitution, are in danger of losing the only source of income most of us depend on in our retirement years. Congress can’t come together to prevent our economy from going over the cliff into the abyss.

Where does it leave all Americans, especially those of us on a single, fixed income, whose only source of income is Social Security? At least Franklin Roosevelt, a Democrat, saw the need for Social Security in his New Deal. But now Democrats have gone far astray from the kind of leadership this country so desperately needs; going down the path of socialism at an alarming rate, to becoming a country not “for the people and by the people,” but ignoring our wonderful Constitution, to become a socialist country, “for the government, and by the government.” I am not a proponent of raising the debt ceiling or passing a $3.5 trillion budget. But with the quagmire the Democratic majority in Congress is holding Republicans hostage with, what is the alternative? The bill has so much pork in it, it should be called, “The Piggy Bill.”

Think about the majority of politicians who came to Washington making less than $200,000 / year but will go back home, after their terms in office are over as multi-millionaires. How does that pass the smell test, when there are ill-gotten monies made off the backs of Americans they were supposed to represent? Even if the economy goes in the ditch, they and theirs still will live comfortably. Will they also still get their salaries and benefits if the economy falters? If senior citizens will lose their monthly incomes, will they? But again, it probably doesn’t matter to them, as they are already comfortable with their ill-gotten money.

God help us, for they certainly are doing their self-serving best not to.

ROBERT DeFELICE

and CATHIE YASH

Boardman