Posted on 05/12/2015 9:06:03 AM PDT by Kaslin
The only reform the American people will accept is lifting the cap.
Since the ‘EXEMPT ONES’ in D.C. have their own plan, they won’t suffer one iota. Only the sheeple will hurt and lose out when SS goes belly up.
The day will come when the sheeple have to rise up and make the exempt ones, feel the pain. Force every cut to SS have a corresponding cut to their own exempt pensions.
Mark my words.
I PAID IN!!
OPEN UP THE LOCK BOX AND GIMME MY MONEY!!
THE GOVERNMENT PROMISED ME!!
TAX MY KIDS!!
IT'S NOT FAIIRRRRRRRRRR!!!
Grab it at 62, folks...better something than nothing.
There are only two solutions. Raise the SS tax or cut benefits.
There is a third. Raise the retirement age.
Great guys that nail shingles on roofs can work until 70.
While government deadheads continue to retire at 50.
I would consider that a cut in benefits.
There's a fourth, privatize the system moving forward. The increases in returns for younger people will allow for less contributions with the excess going to fund the remaining people in the sytem for the next few decades.
If the government had their way, they’d raise it to 85. That way they wouldn’t have to pay out much ( of course that wouldn’t affect Congressional pensions )
Not without at least one generation taking a hit, or alternatively injecting income tax dollars into the SS system to cushion the blow.
Then sign up all the black gang bangers in Baltimore who aren't counted as ‘disabled’ yet...
That should help destroy the system—
Oh wait - for added cruelty let's blame the people who contributed to the system for years... the ‘marks’ - - and tell ‘em they have to work until they drop to keep the system solvent...
Personally I expect nothing less than the whole program to be cancelled and a ‘new’ one created.
One that screws over a whole bunch of people by raising the age of initial benefit payouts to 80 years of age.
As far as SSDI it needs to go away as an adjunct program of Social Security. If it’s truly needed then it needs it’s own funding path.
Kids? More like govt slaves! When you own another human for profit, even your own offspring, you are a slave owner.
I'm not sure which one is worse LBJ or what's his name.
With all of the illegals that will be soon collecting.That system is going to draw down quick.Just like S.S.I.
With that program drug addicts and alcoholics drinking there lives away.They’re all qualified to collect S.S.I.
I am sitting in a Social Security Office at this very moment. My wife and I are here to get our government goodies as I turn 65 in July. I have a visceral negative reaction when I enter any goverment facility. This place creeps me out. Sullen faces all herded together on hard little chairs waiting for their opportunity to plead their case for a chunk of government cheese. Security guard trying to keep himself busy looking important.
Tell them you just snuck in from Mexico. They will expedite your paperwork.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.