A few things about cutting SS and Medicare

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43. Sadly that is one statistic I am

familiar with especially when it comes to people under financial stress. Years ago I did disability research and it was shocking to see the percentage increase in suicides for people with disabilities facing financial stress versus those with resources. The untold or seldom remembered/told story of the drastic, worst years of the '70's through the '90's for farmers was the increase in suicides. There were plenty of widows telling the tale of finding their husbands hanging in the barn or dead from gunshot. They so deeply felt they had failed their ancestors and the ones currently depending on them. So before the bank could take the farm they would commit suicide and sometimes there would be a life insurance policy which could give the wife some money to go on somehow.