Posted on 08/07/2022 4:53:44 PM PDT by george76
Who in the world relies solely on Social Security for their retirement income?! Do people not plan for their eventual retirement?
(As I remember, the last time I looked at the US Debt Clock the debt was around 27 trillion.)
31 trillion national debt
170+ trillion unfunded liabilities
And nobody will ever notice that it is taken back in taxes and inflation.
No worries. I get 4500 a month military retirement check. House paid off. Thrift savings, Roth IRA and Mutuals and individual stocks. I should be ok unless the country bankrupts: then we’re all screwed anyway.
“There should never have been a federal method that passed constitutional muster to take from one citizen and pay another for any reason unless they were actually working and performing a service for the government.”
Exactly! ‘We The People’ have been being PLAYED by Mother Government since 1912 when Income Taxes were passed into law.
It’s been every wo/man for herself since then. And females couldn’t even VOTE until 1920. The Suffragette Hike in 1912 started the ball rolling, and you can’t tell me that had nothing to do with husbands bringing home less of a paycheck when every PENNY was accounted for in the Family Budget back then!
Yeah that was a reagan brilliant decision.
When the Dollar ceases being the World Reserve Currency, look out. It’s coming.
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And the new China, Russia, India, Iran, ME, SA, and Brics alliance will make it happen…..3/4 of the world’s population says so.
I live in a senior complex and many women here live on SS only. Nice neighborhood, nice women. During their lives, they were paid half as much as men for doing the same work. One of my friends here is actually a millionaire and just likes her apartment and friends here, rents out about ten homes she owns in nearby Coeur d’Alene. Very lovely, expensive city.
Extra money would mean a lot to several of my friends.
“..I personally don’t know any who just depend on SS.
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I retired from a manufacturing company in 1992 and the pension check I received then, I receive now - no COL adjustments on private pensions. That with SS makes a decent retirement. I do have a 401k account and the minimum distributions help. No complaints.
Yeah wait until they start taxing your IRA’s and stock investments at 50% just wait it’s coming!!
They hate you too, especially the democrats/socialists/communists and RINOS.
“It is hard to believe that the same person wrote both those sentences.”
By comparing excerpts you totally lose the context of the statements.
Shame.
According to my leftist friends( well not really) it’s just numbers, you can merely delete them and start all over. Done deal!
I used to think that way but now it’s who cares? They threw billions and billions on the worthless war in Afghanistan and now Ukraine. Billions over the years to the millions of illegals and their anchor babies we educate, feed and pay their medical. Billions that should go back to this countries legal taxpayers which includes social security recipients and raising the pay of our military men and women (yes that includes my son). America first.
Just give them more money. After all how were they supposed to know they’d eventually have to retire?
Then they could have taken that $750 Billion and earmarked it all for another round of Stimulus Checks, say $3000 a person, that would have gone a long way to buying votes.
That’s right. It’s damned scary for us.
Very scary.
Read later.
“”””During their lives, they were paid half as much as men for doing the same work. “””””
They must be very old because that was outlawed almost 60 years ago, June 1963.
If it were legal no one would hire a man, they would just save 50% on labor costs.
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