Consequences?
I’m not taking unlawful benefits for myself.
I also consider retirement as a concept to be foolish. It’s fine if someone can meet all their own needs and they are okay with shouldering all their own needs, but it’s a bad idea to expect retirement.
Families should take care of their own. Congregations should take care of those who have no one and cannot take care of themselves. People have the right to ask other persons for help (voluntarily given from their own means).
It isn’t the federal government’s enumerated power to be concerned if I starve while living in a box under a bridge.
I feel the same way, and am hence taking only the lawful benefits, as specified by the Social Security Administration. I would wager that no one here at Free Republic would ever advocate taking anything but their lawful benefits.
But I suspect that you attach some unusual meaning to the word "lawful." Would you please elucidate?
Regards,