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Some people believe that the government should take care of old people and provide financial support after they retire. Others say individuals should save during their working years to fund their own retirement. What is your opinion? Give reasons for your answer and include examples from your own experience Providing seniors with adequate funds to make their ends meet which deems necessary in a society, the government encounter many stumbling blocks. When it comes to this notion, I maintain that it is definitely incumbent upon officials to support and protect seniors especially in the face of adversity. On the one hand, due to the emergence of new technologies and improvement in medical fields the human life span has increased leading to outrageous costs which put a financial burden on the state’s shoulder and consequently the youth who have to work harder to pay the pension funds for the elderly by/through their taxes. With the hindsight of these financial disasters, some people opine that the government should put a halt to this process and make elderlies to rely on themselves and their own savings in their senior years. The opponents of this idea claim that by adopting this method individuals would be driven to work harder and invest more in order to provide the required means for their senior years which would also bring economic prosperity. On the other hand, old citizens, by and large, have already pulled their own weight and turned the economic wheelsgears by spending their youth toiling from dawn to dusk and paying taxes and it is not right/fair to leave them to be broughtbring on their knees especially during the country’ economic plights. There are many unforeseeable situations such as war or economic recession which may condemn the elderly with limited assets to a life of poverty. These individuals are more vulnerable since they are prone to become ill requiring funds for supporting their medication. By the same token, the government should hold up a safety net for them by implementing some public welfare programs. In conclusion, while some believe that the state should stop supporting the senior citizens, I am of the opinion that elderlies should not be left to their own devices/leave on their own especially in countries which where costs of living has have risen by leaps and bounds.