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I am going to work to pay you and the others who argue they paid into the system except they want to pull out more than they paid in...

I am sick an exhausted an trying to pull things together to get to the office

by the way, I work late into the night and weekends because I have to be available during the day for calls, appointments and appearances

That's a bullshit statement ...

" ... they want to pull out more than they paid in..."

We don't WANT to pull out "more than we put in"

Most of us never really thought about the whys and wherefores of SS until it happened, and if you think about it .... most people EVER, never thought about it until maybe 5 or 10 years ago when conversation on the internet prompted it.

But I'm not gonn'a beat YOU up ... you're doing a good job of it yourself with the job that you probably HAVE to keep.

I'll pray for you.

I am going to work to pay you and the others who argue they paid into the system except they want to pull out more than they paid in...”””

WE all paid in EXACTLY what the government told us to pay in. This was done by DEDUCTION-—we never saw the money.

Our employers matched our deductions penny for penny.

Those of us who were also self-employed paid the entire tab—15.3% of our net self-employment income. We also paid for our own health care coverage & usually NOT as part of a GROUP plan-—we were on a ‘single person’ plan. When my health insurance went from $240 a month at age 54 to $580 a month the day I turned 55, I had to drop all coverage. MY health hadn’t changed one little bit. I was the same the day before as the day after. I went 10 years without any health insurance & paid out of pocket for whatever I needed.

I did NOT set the rates for those FICA deductions for all those 50+ years I worked. The Feds did.

I also did NOT set the payment amounts I receive.

I also was frozen at one amount for 3 years.
Prices did NOT stay frozen. Used to buy beef. Now barely buy chicken.

Actually did an experiment the past December. Ate NOTHING but cereal for the entire month. Wanted to see how much I would need & how much milk. Wanted to see if I would be bored to death & lose any energy.

Didn’t turn out badly——at least I know part of my back up plan for when the SHTF in the country. 6 large boxes of cereal & about 4 gallons of milk ill feed me for a month.