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maxrandb

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6. That's the point I was making
Wed Dec 4, 2024, 01:33 PM
Dec 4

I mean no offense to you, or your spouse, but her bad experience with the SSA is hers, just as my good experience is mine. Neither are reflective, or definitive of the SSA as a whole, especially since the SSA is the sole reason that 10's of millions of seniors, like my mom, have been able to live their twilight with a little bit of grace and dignity.

My problem is not with you, it's with people projecting their experience onto entire organizations and groups through the "some say" canard.

A person posts a story about a teenager at Mcdonald's that can't make change, and the meme becomes "teenagers today can't do math".

I would love to show them my daughter's Public High School Differential Equations textbook. I barely got through Algebra II and Trigonometry in my high school, and it was a private Catholic school.

Bottom line is, my kids were more challenged and took more demanding courses than I ever did, but if you listen to the "some say" crap, you'd think every young person today couldn't make change for a dollar if you spotted them 4 quarters.

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