This is why Social Security was amended back in 1983, to gradually increase the age for collecting full retirement benefits from age 65 to 67. The Social Security trustees anticipated the boom in boomer retirements. Why? It’s not the reason that many seem to think.īoomer retirees like me might be soaking up some sun, but we’re not soaking up all of the program’s funds. After that, Social Security will only be able to dole out roughly 77 percent of benefits. The trustees of Social Security - of which yours truly was once a member back when I had thicker hair - say the program will only be able to pay full benefits until 2033. It’s going run out of money before you can ever receive it if the rich don’t start paying their fair share. Social Security is one of the most popular and successful government programs ever created, not only helping retirees - but it’s also keeping 26 million people out of poverty. Social Security is still helping us oldies enjoy our golden years - but only for so long.

It’s not just because too many boomers like me are retiring. Here’s the real reason Social Security is in danger that nobody’s talking about. Young thriller heroines from then on owe Wright’s Charlie a tip of the hat.How the Super Rich Are Killing Social Security Still, she’s a plucky, all-American girl, and she rises to the occasion, but not without having to hold on to a terrible secret for the rest of her life. Hitchcock puts Wright through the wringer she goes from happy-go-lucky to guilty accomplice (not wanting to ruin her family’s reputation or break her mother’s heart by revealing the truth about Mother’s brother) to fearing for her life. Certainly Jack Graham, the young detective who woos Charlie, is no help.)

(What goes unmentioned in this film, made during the height of World War II, is that there are hardly any young men around to play hero, so the responsibility falls to a young woman. Except that Charlie is actually the “Merry Widow” serial killer, and only his namesake niece recognizes the truth about her favorite uncle. Alfred Hitchcock’s movie starts out as a slice of picture-perfect Americana, with a nice, middle-class, Main Street family celebrating a reunion with beloved Uncle Charlie (Joseph Cotten).

Think of what a poison pill Shadow of a Doubt must have seemed in 1943. Cast: Teresa Wright, Joseph Cotten Get This MovieĬharlotte “Charlie” Newton (Teresa Wright)

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