You realize, of course, that the dues you paid over 50 years did not go into your own SS retirement account. There's no such thing. Your dues went to current retirees while you where working. Now, your retirement benefits are being paid for by current workers, like me. You'll really be unhappy when the system crashes and taxpayers refuse to be held hostage to this legalized Ponzi scheme.
Of course I realize that, but it was not my idea....the democrats, sometime in the sixties, decided to raid the social security trust and spend the money on their disastrous"war on poverty"......by the way, we lost.. None of that makes any difference at all, FICA is federal "old age security insurance, and as such, must be honored as it was written. We can take a look at SSI, benefits given to youngsters who are "learning disabled" whose parents demand that they stay that way. Disability coverage to people who work at everything but a job, go bowling, play Bingo, drive a new pickup truck....all on your dollar, whose parents are filthy rich. Medicare doctors (I know two) accused of fraud by billing for services not rendered, ordering unnecessary tests, prescribing unnecessary, high cost pharmaceuticals,believe me, our problems are not with honest participants in the program, but with those who would scam the system for their own benefit. The laws should be strengthened to provide VERY long vacations in federal prison for those convicted of stealing from the American people!!!!!