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Social Security Is Not A Benefit. It Is A Right That One Has Paid For!
IWB ^ | Pamela Williams

Posted on 06/30/2017 9:36:27 AM PDT by davikkm

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1 posted on 06/30/2017 9:36:28 AM PDT by davikkm
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To: davikkm

Pamela needs to work on sentence structure and comma usage.


2 posted on 06/30/2017 9:39:31 AM PDT by humblegunner
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To: davikkm

Incorrect. It’s a tax whose revenue has already been squandered.


3 posted on 06/30/2017 9:39:36 AM PDT by vikingd00d (chown -R us ~u/base)
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To: davikkm

It’s not a trust fund. A lock box. A retirement account. It’s a transfer of payment system, from makers to takers. It’s welfare.

If y’all wanna shoot the messenger, have at it. But it won’t change the facts.


4 posted on 06/30/2017 9:42:10 AM PDT by mewzilla (Was ObamaThanks surveilling John Roberts? Might explain a lot.)
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To: vikingd00d

Indeed. No one governs the government. There is no ‘lock box’. It gets spent. It’s up to subsequent generations to borrow and print money to pay for their retirees.


5 posted on 06/30/2017 9:42:54 AM PDT by z3n
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To: davikkm

I think she may have some learning to do. Rights are not something granted by a government. Social Security is a contract. Rights are granted by God.

The ignorance of the media is simply stunning.


6 posted on 06/30/2017 9:43:30 AM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: vikingd00d

I will be more than happy to end it. Just give me my and my employer’s contributions starting from 1974 with interest as though I had invested in the stock market. No problem.


7 posted on 06/30/2017 9:44:15 AM PDT by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day")
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To: davikkm

No. Socialist Insecurity is not a “right”, and nobody has “paid” for it. It is government sponsored armed robbery, taking from the young and giving to the old. Nothing more, nothing less. Worse, the Congress has absolutely ZERO authority under the Constitution to engage in this sort of organized crime.


8 posted on 06/30/2017 9:44:22 AM PDT by NorthMountain (The Democrats ... have lost their grip on reality -DJT)
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To: mewzilla

It’s not a trust fund. A lock box. A retirement account. It’s a transfer of payment system, from makers to takers.

Its a Ponzi scheme

It’s welfare - not if you get back less than you put in


9 posted on 06/30/2017 9:45:26 AM PDT by Jolla
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already been squandered

Accurate! But, you forgot to mention who squandered the money! And, where the money went!

10 posted on 06/30/2017 9:45:26 AM PDT by Ace's Dad (BTW, "Ace" is now Captain Ace. But only when I'm bragging about my airline pilot son!)
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To: mewzilla

Total BS!!!!!


11 posted on 06/30/2017 9:45:27 AM PDT by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016)
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To: NorthMountain

nobody has “paid” for it.

then there appears to be an error on my pay stub


12 posted on 06/30/2017 9:46:30 AM PDT by Jolla
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To: davikkm

My hope is sometime during the Trump presidency, we give people the option to participate in a SS system similar to that of Chile (I think I have the nation right).

- partially invested in stock/bond portfolios

- can be passed on to your heirs

Much higher returns than with our system. Degree of risk is determined by the individual


13 posted on 06/30/2017 9:47:37 AM PDT by Chauncey Gardiner
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That money stopped yours, mine, ours the moment our pockets were picked.


14 posted on 06/30/2017 9:47:40 AM PDT by mewzilla (Was ObamaThanks surveilling John Roberts? Might explain a lot.)
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To: davikkm

Whatever it is, if the money is not there to pay it out, it wont be paid out.


15 posted on 06/30/2017 9:50:23 AM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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To: davikkm

Well then thank god its going to be there for me when I retire. I was worried that all the money that I am paying in I would never see again.


16 posted on 06/30/2017 9:50:46 AM PDT by McCarthysGhost
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That's not true for all recipients.Yes,recipients of the original Social Security...have money taken from your check for 40-50 years and then collect at 65-70...have earned what they get.

I just recently qualified for the original Social Security and Medicare.Twice in the last year or so I've gone to the SS office with a question.On both occasions the waiting room was mobbed and I was *by far* the oldest person in the room.Today's Social Security has been amended to a degree where it's become,to a substantial degree,another form of welfare...another way for the nation's idle parasites and wetbacks to get a free paycheck.

17 posted on 06/30/2017 9:50:48 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Comey = The Swamp Fighting Back)
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To: vikingd00d
It’s a tax whose revenue has already been squandered.

Yep It is a Ponzi Scheme. Anybody else would go to jail for running such a scam.

18 posted on 06/30/2017 9:50:57 AM PDT by Hyman Roth
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Employee pays 6.2%. Employer pays 6.2%. Medicare is 1.45% for each. Self employed pay 15.3% Social Security and employer match quits when earnings equal $127,200.. Medicare has no cap and actually increases at some point for high earners.

Writer should get facts right

19 posted on 06/30/2017 9:51:18 AM PDT by hillarynot (I play in Peoria)
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To: humblegunner

Anyone who thinks Social Security is a Right is too stupid to cash the check.


20 posted on 06/30/2017 9:51:35 AM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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