Social Security Is Not A Benefit. It Is A Right That One Has Paid For!

IWB ^ | Pamela Williams

[humblegunner]

Pamela needs to work on sentence structure and comma usage.

[vikingd00d]

Incorrect. It’s a tax whose revenue has already been squandered.

[mewzilla]

It’s not a trust fund. A lock box. A retirement account. It’s a transfer of payment system, from makers to takers. It’s welfare.

If y’all wanna shoot the messenger, have at it. But it won’t change the facts.

[z3n]

Indeed. No one governs the government. There is no ‘lock box’. It gets spent. It’s up to subsequent generations to borrow and print money to pay for their retirees.

[Vermont Lt]

I think she may have some learning to do. Rights are not something granted by a government. Social Security is a contract. Rights are granted by God.

The ignorance of the media is simply stunning.

[The Antiyuppie]

I will be more than happy to end it. Just give me my and my employer’s contributions starting from 1974 with interest as though I had invested in the stock market. No problem.

[NorthMountain]

No. Socialist Insecurity is not a “right”, and nobody has “paid” for it. It is government sponsored armed robbery, taking from the young and giving to the old. Nothing more, nothing less. Worse, the Congress has absolutely ZERO authority under the Constitution to engage in this sort of organized crime.

[Jolla]

It’s not a trust fund. A lock box. A retirement account. It’s a transfer of payment system, from makers to takers.

Its a Ponzi scheme

It’s welfare - not if you get back less than you put in

[Ace's Dad]

already been squandered

Accurate! But, you forgot to mention who squandered the money! And, where the money went!

[napscoordinator]

Total BS!!!!!

[Jolla]

nobody has “paid” for it.

then there appears to be an error on my pay stub

[Chauncey Gardiner]

My hope is sometime during the Trump presidency, we give people the option to participate in a SS system similar to that of Chile (I think I have the nation right).

- partially invested in stock/bond portfolios

- can be passed on to your heirs

Much higher returns than with our system. Degree of risk is determined by the individual

[mewzilla]

That money stopped yours, mine, ours the moment our pockets were picked.

[Jonty30]

Whatever it is, if the money is not there to pay it out, it wont be paid out.

[McCarthysGhost]

Well then thank god its going to be there for me when I retire. I was worried that all the money that I am paying in I would never see again.

[Gay State Conservative]

That's not true for all recipients.Yes,recipients of the original Social Security...have money taken from your check for 40-50 years and then collect at 65-70...have earned what they get.

I just recently qualified for the original Social Security and Medicare.Twice in the last year or so I've gone to the SS office with a question.On both occasions the waiting room was mobbed and I was *by far* the oldest person in the room.Today's Social Security has been amended to a degree where it's become,to a substantial degree,another form of welfare...another way for the nation's idle parasites and wetbacks to get a free paycheck.

[Hyman Roth]

It’s a tax whose revenue has already been squandered.

Yep It is a Ponzi Scheme. Anybody else would go to jail for running such a scam.

[hillarynot]

Employee pays 6.2%. Employer pays 6.2%. Medicare is 1.45% for each. Self employed pay 15.3% Social Security and employer match quits when earnings equal $127,200.. Medicare has no cap and actually increases at some point for high earners.

Writer should get facts right

[Mariner]

Anyone who thinks Social Security is a Right is too stupid to cash the check.