I don’t consider myself a taker. I’m receiving Social Security, a program I’ve paid into for 50 years and am still paying into.
You’re hardly alone in viewing the SS program that way, but (1) it wasn’t designed as a purely investment based plan in the first place and (2) to the extent that it might have operated like an investment based plan, they squandered what was paid in and have to make the payments to you now out of taxes of people like me, who probably won’t ever see an actual SS.
With all due respect, I believe you've missed the point. One of the most disgusting things about this President is that he wants the public to think his opponents see people like you and people like the guy with a Gucci hat and an iPhone buying steak at the checkout line with an EBT card (stole that last part from Iowahawk) as the same sort of person.
Doesn't matter what you think.
Your Social Security benefits are no more or less earned than the welfare queen with 12 kids by 12 different baby-daddys, or the babbling alcoholic who has never held a job, or the able-bodied willingly ignorant who "qualify" for permanent disability...
Those are the TAKER Programs.
He purposely included the “funded” Entitlements that are meant for the same people who paid into them throughout their working lives to elicit the exact reaction you Posted.
As usual, he is playing us for fools. I'm sorry, he is playing the Useful Idiots for the fools they are.
I'm in the same situation.
I think it's high time we made a very large distinction between Social Security where you pay into it for your working life and get it back when you retire vs programs like Food Stamps, Obamaphones, AFDC, WIC, etc. where the true takers are directly supported by the taxpayers without making any contribution themselves.
Social Security is an earned entitlement. The rest of the entitlements are unearned entitlements.
“I don’t consider myself a taker. I’m receiving Social Security, a program I’ve paid into for 50 years and am still paying into.”
Not to pick an intergenerational fist fight, but it doesn’t matter what you “consider yourself”.
What you “paid into” for 50 years was taken from you.
That doesn’t mean that folks today who pay for your benefits are not also “taken from”.
So you are getting an entitlement. You have to accept the truth, regardless of what you wish it to be.
There are a lot of people getting entitlements that are paid for by people who have their money taken from them today (or money taken from their children, most of whom haven’t even been born yet - and may never be born because of it).
take your check. spend it as you will. But accept the truth of where the money is coming from.