Hey, this is close to home--the Recession is slamming my future financial "security"--i.e., The Social Security System!

The recession is taking its toll on Social Security. The officials who oversee the program forecast yesterday that the Social Security trust fund will be exhausted by 2037 -- four years earlier than estimated last year. If the trust fund's longevity continues to drop by four years each year ahead, I figure I have about six years left. That's 6 x 4 = 24 and 2037 - 24 = 2013 ... and six years from now, it'll be 2015 (give or take six months). Halfway between 2013 and 2015 is 2014--or really, only about five years from this moment--one year short of the magic six I might still have.

But that's only the half of it!

In exactly seven and a half weeks, my entire income will be that $1050 Social Security check. My fixed expenses are 500 (mortgage)+ 362 (car payment) + 150 (long term health care insurance) + 150 (MediGap, Option F) + 200 (average monthly electric bill) + 40 (cat food) + 60 (gasoline) + 114 (TV and Internet cable) + 60 (two dollars-a-day for human food--assuming neither I or my brother, Richard, are required to eat the seven cats and one dog with whom I share my cabin on the ocean) + 75 water and sewage + 50 for garbage pick-up ... plus ...

Add it up, friends!

Please pray that I can find a part-time job. Even 75 year-old men can do something!

Can't they?

Do I sound a little as though I haven't trust in God who has gotten me through worse holes in the past? Do I sound just a little like I'm feeling sorry for myself?

Right! Ignore this posting ... for now ...