PING!
Posted on 11/23/2014 7:05:37 PM PST by upchuck
I wondered the same thing. I think my old auntie played viola in the school orchestra in the '50s.
If the general tone of this forum is any indicator, I believe you!
“Led by Field Marshal Mitch McConnell and General John Boehner?”
Secret identity: Lieutenant Fuzz and Private Zero.
PING!
And half of us will be sneaking into Mexico to get away from it all. :-D
We have all paid so explain how one class becomes more deserving than another.
I accept your kind offer.
I waive any claim to SS/M’care benefits in return for the “contributions” extorted from me for the past 50+ years.
To compensate me for the lost time value of money, I request you deliver a proxy punch in the chops to FDR in the lobby of Hell.
Once upon a time. we did elect the Newt Gingrich congress who did much to reform social security and put it on a sound fiscal footing, but thanks to the ruinous spending of the democrats and this massive immigration of unskilled illegal aliens pushing up the amount of transfer payments hugely it is gone. It is a sad sad situation. When I was young, pensions were common, in fact they were vested. You were promised that no matter what, you would have this pension, and then for most of us who worked in the private sector, this income we had planned on for our retirement, was all taken away us when we were 40 or so, and facing the fact we were going to have to start over trying to prepare for our retirement, just when our college-bound children needed our incomes the most. Then thanks to the destructive policies of the federal govt, our stocks deperated, interest rates and housing prices fell, prices rose, our annuities we paid so much into just began to disappear, for many of us our wages and hours cut. And then, our grown children, unable to find jobs, began to need our support further depleting what savings we had set aside.
It is so hard to be old, my young friend, after a life time of working, paying high taxes (many of those years taxes were higher than yours by the way.) We have been hurt too, it is so very very hard to be old and sick, knowing what little income you are given comes from young people who have every right to resent you. You are asking so much from the “old” patriots, more than you can imagine, you ask us to be utterly impoverished, utterly dependent on the charity of those who like you resent us so, no longer able work after we have stood on our own two feet for all of our lives, and provided for children as best we could. Many of us old people will probably choose to live destitute, sick, starving, cold, and homeless after a life of toil, to help you, but it is a terrible sacrifice, and you should not resent and hate us so much for fearing this.
“Whoda thunk 20 years ago that the time would come when Canadians are telling us to man up......”
Man up and put Obama in the Penalty Box?
I would imagine that it is a humorous twist on the French word “Voila”, which generally means “here is”. And so, viola...it’s voila.
WTH are you talking about?
You called a bunch of seniors out for collecting SS.
Is that really a problem for you or does your new post presuppose a dilution of what you said, so you can further qualify your original?
and your passport up to date
Bought a KSG off the grid yesterday. Then, by golly, the darned thing fell overboard this morning. Seems unfortunate, but I feel better and better each time that happens.
We don't know that for sure either.
I see you only post every week or two, so let this be a reminder:
You are a Jackass to impune someone’s integrity and further, their patriotism, for taking Social Security.
You are also a blowhard and probably on Social Security while pretending to be some morally superior whack job.
That you would do so demonstrates, in bold letters and vivid colors your lack of integrity.
Surprised only two other posters caught your BS.
And to think the scam that is Social Security was foisted by the reasoning that folks were not saving enough of their own to provide for themselves in their declining years. Turns out this is just one more thing the feral gummint couldn’t do, either!
Ceaucescu
Go awol, and let your countrymen suffer.
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