Posted on 06/20/2011 1:08:08 PM PDT by jazusamo
I plan on working until I die. No point even considering ‘retirement’ the way things are. Even my house is basically a burden now, thanks to the game-playing.
But, that’s okay. I probably wouldn’t know what to do with myself if I wasn’t working, so, shrug.
“I plan on working until I die. No point even considering ‘retirement’ the way things are.”
I’ve decided to do exactly the same!!!
The banks got it...they held up Congress and GW Bush at gunpoint...Sept 2008
remember when bob dope of kansas helped the
democrats spend the social security surplus?
Wanna save it???? stop giving taxpayer money to the non producers.....stop head start and other needless programs...defund the atf, department of education, epa, and politicians pensions.....these simple steps alone will save it for those of us that have been paying for 40 years...allow the youngsters to opt out, and in 2 generations it is gone...
Draft Sowell for President.
If you don’t vote for him, Bambi voters, you’re a racist.
I’m in the same boat.
The money was never there. It was simply spent every year by dumping the amount not immediately Ponzied out to retirees into the general fund. The banks had nothing to do with it.
That makes three of us. I do it to attempt to justify the SS I receive. Considering what I payed in and my taxes, I may be close to justifying.
Maybe it’ll be there and maybe it won’t. I’m supposed to get 2K a month if I work until I’m 70. My mortgage won’t be paid off until I’m 80, so that’s not a lot of help. Then again, I’ll probably have sold the place long before then, but even so, it’s not going to go far enough even if all I’m doing is paying ordinary bills.
So, I’ll work. And won’t worry about it. And won’t ever ever vote for a Democrat, no matter how ‘conservative’, ever ever again.
Yep. Politicians simply can’t keep their hands off free money when they see it.
Most would hock their mother’s if they knew they wouldn’t have to pay the money back in their lifetime.
The creeps in congress are moving money from Social Security to Disability... They don't want anyone looking too closely at what's really going on...
No one objects to people who are really disabled getting Social Security - but a fair portion of inner city neighborhoods are using disability as the 'new welfare'. The MSM isn't reporting on it because too many dem victim groups are on the take - gays, blacks, drug addicts, gangbangers, alcoholics, wastrel's ...
It's NOT fair to the seniors who put into the system or to the young people paying supporting it today.
Everybody says that the way to solve the Social Security problem is to raise the retirement age. This is lazy and simplistic. I say the way to save Social Security, (if it must be saved), is to throw people off who have never paid in or who paid in for only a few years. You can start with that diaper wearing guy.
You're absolutely right.
From what little I've read on this it's a widespread scam and amounts to legalized theft.
Let's hope your employer feels the same way.
yeah..well Congress will be “ponzying it out “ to the banks rather than to the baby boomers retirements.
And once the money was in the general fund it was used as part of the monies available to fund any program the politicians and bureaucrats wanted to spend it on.
I think that only happened about twenty five years ago and there was quite a tahoo about it. Do you recall?
I’m in an interesting position: as the controller, I am the only person in the company doing my job. It doesn’t actually require a true full-time person. If health-care funding has to be provided, then the gain would be to cut me to about 60%, saving 40% of my salary and having to pay 10% for new health-care costs. I would then have to look for work to make up the lost fraction. It could be done, but would be painful in the short-run.
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