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That is an interesting question. Those programs were imposed on me the day I got my first real job. Over my working life I have contributed around $300,000 if not more, while the results of all that money being invested for the past 45 years would be in the Millions of dollars.

Do I have access to those contributed funds and the resulting investments? Of course not, it's been spent.

Stolen. Taken from you with the threat of jail and then spent, all against your will.

Now add to that my personal situation. [...] If you are asking if I should give up the money stolen from me to protect future generations, I say no. There are plenty of Programs where the Beneficiaries didn't contribute one thin dime to their funding.

It's ok to get rid of the programs you aren't using, but not the ones you're entitled to.
Do you see where this is going?
Until and unless we as people can love our fellow man enough to give up our claims on things stolen from us we will never significantly cull an entitlement program. When we can see the past as "spilled milk, realize the present is injustice, and fight the future of that injustice is when we will be free from it.

Time to start culling the herd with the Makers being the last to sacrifice after the Takers stop taking from them.

No, we lose when we go that route. They have the ear of "the law" and the government's made it plain that they have no problem redistributing.
What we need to do is show them real love, life-changing, heart-turning love. The sort of love that makes friends of enemies; in short, we need to be the light of the world.

Painful? Yes.
Worth it? I'll ask Jesus when I see him.

>”It's ok to get rid of the programs you aren't using, but not the ones you're entitled to”<

Since I'm not using any programs, I'll have to get back to you on that. LOL

As far as SS and Medicare go, odds are I won't collect much if any SS and the odds of me living long enough to use Medicare are a whole lot slimmer. Such is the joy of contracting Leukemia at such a relatively early age.

Don't worry, the Takers are making out on my lifetime of labor, of that I can assure you. I should have spent my youth smoking, drinking and doing drugs like the Vermin that is the base of Obama’s support.

Maybe things would have turned out differently and I would have ended up a Taker without a care in the world.

Only the good die young, or so I've heard. Maybe there will be a miracle drug developed so I can live to a ripe old age, but increased Corporate Taxes and Obamacare will reduce the funding of the kind of R&D that would be required.

I have no hope living in the new Socialist States of America. The Liberal Electorate took care of that last Tuesday. God Help our once great Nation. The dream has been squandered by those who do not equate sacrifice with honor.