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Social security is a very generous program for someone of modest means who lives for the current average lifespan for their age cohort. It is even more generous for women who tend to live longer and earn less. And it is especially generous for married couples with a stay-home wife. Which makes it r...

Demographic changes are coming for the plain people. They have been having smaller and smaller families along with the rest of society. This is going to matter in the coming years, as fewer young people will be working to support the number of retirees in their communities. It's a problem everywher...

When Social Security was implemented in 1935, the general life expectancy was around 60 years. And the benefits were set to begin at age 65. It looks to me that its intention was not to allow for people to live long lives of luxury and leisure for the last 20 or so years of their lives. So if Socia...

Incidentally, it's a much better deal for most people to invest 15.3% of their income elsewhere and use that to retire... a typical Amish person invests in real estate which is one of the best performing investments there is. Financial planners and advisors recommend not relying on Social Security ...

Again, the misinformation on this thread from people like Judas Maccabeus is fairly appalling ... Also concerning is the core on why this thread was started. Josh, Ernie, and others missed the key issue. Many of the students at Sattler know this but the real driver of the conflict was the former Pr...

I know this thread meandered a bit….such is life. I do wonder, does anyone KNOW, not a single person telling someone here their opinion, but really know on a more wide spread basis, has there been a groundswell of feeling in Eastern about unfair or troublesome ordination practices? I find, and unde...

I hope my posting career is still going just as strong when I'm 94. You folks are going to have to put up with another five decades of me (and just imagine how much higher my post count will get).

I get a rather small monthly check, and am enrolled in Medicare ,it's the most important card I carry. The Amish are exempt, and live it,for the most part, My own Dad lived to be 97 years old , never took a check from the system, because he was against it , and lived it,too. Medicare eligibility ha...

My loving (and candid) wife says I shouldn't bother responding to your last bit, but goodness me... Persisting in denial, promoting a canard, suffering trauma, blaming less significant bogeymen, AND burying the head in the sand, all in one fell swoop! For the rest of MN who has the good sense to be...

I also look forward to visiting a different church next weekend near Cincinatti. Does anyone know of plain Anabaptist presence beyond the Washington Co.-Franklin church in Washington Court House, OH or the German Baptists in Dayton? Wondering if you were able to find another spot of plain Anabaptis...