I paid into it since 1960...Nd it was a good idea. But the government stole the money I put in for retirement and used it for other things...which they had promised they wouldn’t do. Now they cut my retirement when I’m too old to go back to work and fo something about it. The young people in this country need to rise up and strike down this government and the people running it and start over. I’m mad as hell!!!
Oh, it get’s better. Under Obozo, SS payments have increased just a little over 1% while he was at the helm, but welfare and other “transfer payments” (e.g., free cell phones) have increased just a little over 30%. At what point does the Left realize that the productive members of society won’t stand for this? History is strewn with the wreckage of governments, like Greece, that thought they could maintain power by transferring from the productive to the unproductive. I’m not worried about me, but I fear for my kids and grandchildren. It’s way past time to stop subsidizing the freeloaders.
“The young people” are too busy taking selfies.
67% of millennials voted for obammy.
“I paid into it since 1960...Nd it was a good idea. ...”
I’m assuming the ‘Nd’ in your statement means ‘No Doubt’, but SS was never a ‘good idea’.
The premise that accepting money from an organization that forcefully stole that money from other people is never a good idea.
Basically SS is the gov’t pointing a gun to your head saying “we’re stealing your money today to give to others now, but, at some time in the future we will stop doing so and send you money we stole from other people.”.
I see accepting SS money as receiving stolen goods.
I wish the whole SS system would collapse (along with many other unconstitutional other programs) so I may be left along to take care of myself when and if I ever live long enough to “retire”.
Imagine the retirement account you would have today if ever penny you paid into SS, had been put into some type of investment.
What do you imagine they should do with it? Open a savings account at the bank? Store cash in a big vault somewhere?
They had to do something with the money and they did what anyone would consider the safest investment. They bought government bonds. That accomplishes the same thing as when you buy a government bond. You give your cash to the treasury for a promise to pay it back with interest in the future.
Whatever you think of SS, and I'm against it, that's not stealing it.