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The money's already been spent....
Thank God for this one "cure all" to all financial issues.
We get robbed each year and not we lose our retirements.
In May I reached official retirement age. Social Security is screwing with me. It looks like I will have to keep working and use most of my savings (for taxes etc) until sometime next year.Am getting a lawyer involved.
They say they overpaid me and now want the money back. They haven’t shown me how, why or even if it was an overpayment. It’s just “trust me, we made a mistake and you have to pay for it”
Boomers say “Who is John Galt,” sort of.
Also, when you are 62, unable to find work, and living in an Obamaville van down by the river, you sign up for early Social Security.
Zero will see to it there won’t be anyone to collect SS.
Those who need health care the most will get painkillers.
They will still be made to pay hefty fines but benefits will decrease.
Medicare Advantage insurers
will raise their premiums sky high with less benefits
until Zero gets his government health rationing going,
then from what I gather, they won’t be around at all.
A graduated tax ought to fix it.
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SS is bankrupt because politicians cannot resist the temptation to get their hands on that much money. And, once they do, they squander it on things it was never meant for.
Right, there are massive accumulated surpluses, and yet it will add to the deficit. What a crock!
Why should there be any strain? It is just people collecting money they have been depositing in the “lockbox” all their lives.. </ sarcasm>
in this day of instant, world wide, transactions... would someone PLEASE tell me why the social security administration isn’t doing direct deposits?
this would save on paper, man power, and time. it would save the post office all that work and reduce energy requirements to produce and ship the checks each month. it would also save granny the trip to the bank and reduce any possibility she might get mugged or that her checks could get stolen.
it would also radically cut the cost of the department by reducing the number of people required (this is most likely why it hasn’t been optimized)
and if someone doesn’t have a bank account, then give them one.
It’s called getting their money while they still can.
Boomers fault!
President Barack Obama has said he would like to tackle Social Security next year.
You all know what this means.
BOHICA!
Higher payroll taxes, higher Medicare taxes, health care taxes and imprisonment, the Bush tax cuts expiring, more income taxes on top of that, higher property taxes to make up for lower assessments, higher sales taxes, carbon taxes, and only God knows what else.
Bachmann and Paul, at their recent Town Hall in Minneapolis were right.
The United States government has sold all of us younger Americans into slavery. All of our future income is spoken for, we are burdened heavily with debts to bail out the banks and subsidize leftist academia and its pipe dreams, and on top of that, the statists and globalists are expecting us to continue paying for their foreign interventions worldwide.
And on top of that...they want to make Government EVEN BIGGER!
"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their money, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of their property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered." —attributed to Thomas Jefferson
God save the Republic.
Social Security’s going broke because for years - every time a dime was dropped in the pot - it was taken out and an IOU was dropped in... They’re going to do the same thing with healthcare - with the same outcome... Broke.