I want to retire, leave New Jersey, take my guns and tools with me and target shoot, hunt, hike and build rifles until I die.
You can make arguments for and against Socialist Security and pensions. But Socialist Security is not an entitlement, it is a form of retirement insurance.
Those SOBs in Washington, primarily Democrats, destroyed it by expanding it for other purposes, raiding it for other purposes and lowering the reitement age.
Pensions should also be run as a reitement insurance program with the money well invested and protected - sort of like a 401-K program and maybe Socialist Security should be run like that also.
But people who are nearing retirement and have made plans based on SS and a pension system should be screwed because a pension administrator or those clown in Washington have been misbehaving badly.
“...But people who are nearing retirement and have made plans based on SS and a pension system...”
There’s your trouble. Bad planning. Liberals want the government to see to the needs of those who plan poorly. That’s the original sin that created such a ponzi scheme social program as Social Security. It’s socialism, collectivism, communism, progressivism, or whatever you want to label it. It is not reflective of good old American self responsibility.
Better planning is to not rely on systems run by the corruptable; government and S&L types. Maintain good health, plan your spending, allow for hyper inflation by not having your money tied up in money.
And, oh yeah, work your whole life.
I plan to work (business owner) my whole life, but now in my fifties, I can take more days off to go fishing, hunting and traveling to visit relatives and friends. I live better than my retired friends whose income is limited (bad planning).