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“Funny. But the “baby boomers” aren’t the problem. Didn’t the spend the last 40 years paying into SS? Where’s their money? It’s a friggen sham.”

I want every last dime that I had confiscated during my working years and then some.

If we can spend billions of Taxpayer dollars providing health,Eduacation and legal aid to criminal alians and their off spring we can care for American citizens who busted their butts for this country.

I don’t want to here about Sociol Security cuts untill I see Congressional Retirement and Health Benefits Slashed.

Maybe then Congress will get serious about illegal Immigration.

I want every last dime that I had confiscated during my working years and then some.

If we can spend billions of Taxpayer dollars providing health,Eduacation and legal aid to criminal alians and their off spring we can care for American citizens who busted their butts for this country.

I don’t want to here about Sociol Security cuts untill I see Congressional Retirement and Health Benefits Slashed.

Maybe then Congress will get serious about illegal Immigration.

Well they forced you to participate and promised it to you, so you should get it. My point is that the SS system is set up like a chain letter. And it is mathematically impossible for it to work. President Bush tried to do something about it but the Democrats did their usual demagogy and the old folks fell for it. Too bad. We're screwed unless we do something pronto. The only answer is to privatize. Hell, I'd get a better return by stuffing the money under my mattress - literally.

My husband and I just recently retired...between the two of us, we paid into SS for over 70years...he paid in over 45 years, I paid in for 25 years, taking 20years off to raise a family..

So yeah, I would like every dime back, that was taken from us when we were working...

Right after the hubby retired, I was on a FR thread, and discussing with someone else about traveling around the US in our RV, now that we were retired...we were going to have so much free time, now that our schedules were no longer regulated by our jobs...our time was our own...all we had to do, was have our pension checks, our SS checks, and our annuity checks sent direct deposit to one central account, and from there we could draw out our money whenever we needed it...

Someone, obviously much younger, was outraged that I would enjoy myself RVing around the country at her personal expense...after all, her social security contributions, were paying for me to live my retirement as I chose, and she did not like that...thought if I was a good American, according to her standards, I should send back my SS check...when I asked her, what about the 70+ number of years I and the hubby had paid into SS, this otherwise very vocal poster, shut up and ran away...

So the question does remain...what about the money that I and the hubby paid in for over 70+ years..much of that time, one or the other of us was working two jobs, or pulling down lots of overtime...we worked dang hard, too hard to have some know-nothing tell me I should feel guilty for RVing around the country, while she, poor dear, was having to pay for my RV gas money, directly out of her own pocket...