So what? I’m 62, went on SS because I want my money back. I don’t want my money going to illegal immigrants, drug addicts, drunks and so called disabled (if they are not). Look at the original SS ACT. It was intended for the person who PAID into it. NOT the children, wives of the workers nor for drug addicts, made-up diseases and it was SUPPOSED to draw interest in each “Insurance policy” which never happened. 50%? Probably more. Guess what? I still work and pay into SS, not because I HAVE to, but I figure if my get the bear’s share of my “investment” what I’m putting in now can go to the dreck.
I'm 61.75 and in a quandry as to whether start taking it at 62 or wait until later. I need to lower my real estate taxes some how though in order to have enough left to live on. I may have to move to a cheaper property tax location.
Are that many freepers that old?
You can’t get your money back. Your money is gone. What you get is other people’s money.
“Look at the original SS ACT. It was intended for the person who PAID into it.”
Nonsense. The first recipients didn’t pay into it; how could they? I’ll admit for subsequent generations there was some connection between being taxed and eventually getting paid, theoretically. But they certainly didn’t pay into anything in a strict sense, since there was nothing into which to pay. That only lasted for a few generations at most, by which time even theoretically there stopped being a connection, since everyone agrees, basically, that the fictitious “system” is broke.
What actually happened was the feds tricked people like you into paying them to blow on whatever it is that caught their fancy by pretending as if you paid into some kind of insurance policy/retirement plan, which never existed. They want welfare to seem not like welfare by creating the illusion that you merely get hack what you pay in.
If that were the case why the hell would I have to pay in? I could keep the money, then they wouldn’t have to pay it back. You’re too stupid to run your own life, according to them. But they don’t say that. Instead they get you on board with socialism by the elaborate pretense that you’re getting back your own money. In reality, your money went to someone else and someone else’s money is going to you. This is okay by most of the general public because they’ve been raised to believe in socialism without knowing it.