The best thing for the elderly on fixed incomes is to keep inflation down. Their pensions and SS don't go up with the cost of living. And we are now in times when the working poor and elderly on fixed incomes that were previously barely making it are now not making it with high inflation. It is increasingly coming down to ugly decisions, such as do you want to eat or pay for gas to commute to work. Do you want to stay warm in the winter time or eat?

Social Security needs to change. I am not advocating any specific approach, but I would have to insist that the real experts be involved in that change instead of the usual range of partisan legislators.