Exactly. It really annoys me when they call SS an “entitlement,” because I have been paying into it as a benefit plan all of my life. In fact, I’m self employed, so for the last 20 years, I have been paying 16+% of my gross income into it. And now I’m supposed to feel guilty about expecting to get something back?
Congress squandered this money. If they had invested it, we’d have a huge retirement fund. But they put it into the general fund and burned through it. And now the payors are supposed to feel guilty??? Gimme a break.
I hear that my husband and I both paid in over 40 years yet some people think we have no right to be paid back. I don’t care if they want to end the program as long as they return the money stolen from us.
If they mean entitlement as in we are entitled to get back that which we paid thats true it would be outright theft to do otherwise, but many act as if this is a welfare entitlement program to which we contributed nothing and that is a lie.
The real culprits here are our Politicians they spent our money and now are trying to convince the younger people it’s the Seniors who are who blame.
“And now I’m supposed to feel guilty about expecting to get something back?”
I’m in the same boat in business for myself. The only difference is, I don’t expect to see ANY of it by the time I can start collecting.