It may seem a little harsh even for a socialist publication — the World Socialist Web Site (WSWS) — to point the finger at mainstream health authority plans to ‘cull the elderly herd.’
As a natural and inevitable national phenomenon, the die-off of the Baby Boomers has been long expected as a slow-rolling disaster. It’s inevitable timetable suggests peak Baby Boomer death in American somewhere around the year 2030. The cost to countries has been reckoned to be financially debilitating, if not devastating. That’s projecting ever-increasing costs for social and medical care.
The WSWS details the sparsity of programs currently available in the United States to support poverty-stricken and homeless older Americans. There is little hope that these programs will be enough to deal with the already overwhelming numbers of old people living in poverty and, increasingly homeless.
Why is there so little support to elderly people who are homeless? The WSWS would have you believe that it’s deliberate. Finding housing for older people who are homeless wastes time on those who no longer make a productive contribution to society.
Perhaps you imagine that the World Socialist Website is good only for fist-waving rote denunciations of the ‘ruling class’ attitudes towards the poor? Perhaps. But much of the article is well-documented from unimpeachable resources.
The WSWS postulates that government authorities might prefer to abandon an entire generation of elders. It seems unlikely. And yet what other explanation supports the apparent indifference to the plight of poor people as they grow older?
Read more in the WSWS: Growing number of elderly homeless in the US
And supporting the stats in the WSWS article, read more in the OHIO CAPITAL JOURNAL: High mortality rate of homeless highlighted in new report
