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for the record, I think after one receives every penny they paid into SS, the rest should be means tested, which will mean that many better off retirees will get no more....

I feel this way because we can all complain about SS and Medicare but the real deal buster will be these lavish govt benefits at all levels ....education, police, military, city, county, state, federal.....

there will be two types of retired..those with the guarenteed govt pensions and medical retirement benefits and those without either....

why should the same taxpayers who footed the bill for govt pensions also be the same ones suffering when there is no money for SS?

there will be means testing and it will affect anyone getting the defined pension plans bought and paid for by US taxpayers ....it has to be....

for the record, I think after one receives every penny they paid into SS, the rest should be means tested, which will mean that many better off retirees will get no more.

And so you get a return of 0% on that money? In fact, after inflation, it's a loss for you if you think about buying power.

How about we call it what it is - a massive fraud perpetrated on the American people by a criminal government - and abolish it?