Ned opened his local paper this morning to see an irate letter, mercifully short, from an individual who described himself as "on a fixed income". He proceeded to complain, in his best 'get off my lawn!' voice, about the cost of the local bus subsidy, which of course allows "seniors" among others to ride the bus for 35 cents, saying thusly: "Who pays for this subsidy? Why, seniors on fixed income, that's who." Now Ned is sick to death of whining retirees, snugly ensconced as they are with a guaranteed social security payment, indexed for inflation so that their purchasing power is protected, and the recipients of heavily subsidized medical care that everyone would like to have, who never have to woory about losing thir income, or having to take a pay cut, or of being laid off, or of being unemployed and losing their house. In fact, Ned suspects that just about any American, short of a member of the Sneering Plutocracy, would love to be able to count on a "fixed income" since about 20% of us are out of work or working less than we would like. And many of us have lost our health "insurance" or never had it to begin with.
So if Ned never has to listen to another whining selfish old swine complaining about his or her "fixed income", it'll be too soon. They can all go to the devil.
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