So what is your point?
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My point is you are broadbrushing EVERYONE into one category.
If you would vent your anger at those that are ‘taking advantage of the system’ I would agree with you.
Someone who worked for the Govt and had NO FICA taken out, retiring then getting a job at the local hardware store in order to ‘get quarters’ for SS is not in the spirit of what it was meant to be.
Because someone is a drunk or drug abuser and at 25 is drawing some form of SS is not in the spirit of what it is meant to be.
If someone ‘runs out’ of unemployment checks and suddenly develops a phobia towards work or not and gets designated to be on ‘disability’ with the SS fund ‘covering the bill’, again is not what was meant to be.
The ‘ambulance chasers’ of old are now advertising to the ‘daytime crowd’ of TV with ‘tons’ of ads for assisting people in receiving SS Disability funds.
Like it or not SS was ‘invented’ in 1937? or 38? not only to suck more money out of the people but was witheld with the intention being if people were of a mind to NOT put aside money for their ‘Senior Years’, the Govt would TAKE YOUR money and put it aside for you.
My first witholding was at 14 and have basically NEVER missed a day without a JOB since. Some I have created on my own, some I worked for others.
Whether I made good bad or indifferent choices is a moot point...US GOVT withheld .15 out of every 1.00 I earned AND it was ‘earmarked’ for my golden years - and I didn’t start drawing till I was 68.
I didn’t make the rules, I followed them.
If you are paying into and receiving compensation towards retirement for a company that has employed you for 35 or so years and when you go to draw your first check and you are told that the ‘new employees’ don’t think it is ‘fair’ that they should be contributing to YOUR retirement fund, we can discuss this like adults.
I am NOT saying that SS is supposed to be anymore than an supplemental fund but people have run the #’s and that .15 cents invested per hr certainly builds up - IF it is in the right place.
algore was wrong in saying that SS was in a lock box BUT I am sure that is/was the original intention until some brain (like his old man??) decided the General Fund is where it should be OR we will ‘borrow’ it and return it later.
That is how most embezzlers start....Borrow 50 bucks from the petty cash fund and before long they are into the bank account......
“My point is you are broadbrushing EVERYONE into one category.
If you would vent your anger at those that are ‘taking advantage of the system’ I would agree with you.”
The toughest thing for folks to understand that from a taxpayers standpoint there is no difference.
From the standpoint of expanding socialism, it matters not whether someone paid taxes his whole life or not.
This waiter was hostile enough about not getting his entitlement that he did this.
Cut off someones government check and you will get equal hostility.
socialism and the entitlement it breeds is a simply fact in the USA- I’m long past angry about this stuff. I’m more amused at folks who think the party is going to last forever.
If you’re used to working for a living, you’ll be fine in a post gov’t check world. As for everyone else, who knows?