Just how are we older individuals expected to survive? Higher water, electricity, gas prices, food, insurance, taxes, Rx's - where does it stop? I am almost 75 years of age, worked all my life and still blessed with good health: Still working to maintain a lifestyle that I feel I deserve. But my retirement income and the income I earn is not keeping up with price increases. I grow a vegetable garden (and flowers), but the water is so expensive I cannot water the garden as it should be done. When it rains I catch all the water I can and reserve it for use. I am trying to maintain an independant life, so how do you justify a rate hike that benefits only the company CEO's?