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You won’t hear any GOP candidate make a speech like this. Pity, too, because this fire is what millions of voters are looking for.
SS payments were just another stupid tax to support those who couldn’t plan.
Anyone who thought they were INVESTING in their future was nuts. Baby Boomers must have been high.
Anyone younger than 50 who thinks he/she will see a dime of SS (other than maybe one of the other uses of SS, such as kids with ADHD who have never put a penny in the system) is crazy.
My retirement planning has SS as a big goose egg. I wish they would just kill the damn thing and be done with it.
My worry is they will come after my 401(k) to subsidize people stupid enough to depend on SS for their Depends.
In about five years, the now large Social Security political constituency is going to start shrinking very quickly. Politicians are looking ahead and preferring their constituents for federal funding to local governments (feminist social programs, public education, police funding, planning offices, that is Agenda 21 and the like, building regulation offices, environmental, etc.).
We and our employers have paid this TAX and we deserve the Insurance Benefits.
Pay up or leave town and go do one of those shovel ready jobs.
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I heard the nitwit in chief say the other day that every month, the US sends out some 80 million checks for payments. I suppose most of these are for Social Security, pensions, Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements and unemployment compensation. It seems the political class has achieved its goal of making a large share of normal Americans dependent on their neighbors for sustinence.
How in G-d's name could anybody think this is the vision laid out for this country some 200+ years ago? Would the framers ever have expected that one day, under the country they designed, a free person would have to receive money forced from his working neighbors for his food and his entertainment and his health care?
Is it greed to demand what you were promised when you paid your social security and medicare taxes?
Alan Simpson is a senile old coot and second-generation lifetime politician. He is a favorite appointee to “bipartisan commissions” for Democratic Presidents who know Simpson will embarrass himself and the GOP.
Simpson is best known for brokering the 1986 amnesty agreement, and we all know how this turned out.
I’ve always despised the know it all senator from Wyoming. He’s the poster for term limits. Why on earth do people keep re-electing these people?
.increase taxes dramatically....and for we boomers, its been a HUGE titanic increase because IIRC, the SS tax began at 0.5%....
keeping delaying the payouts ....
and along the way use OUR money for illegals,slackers,drug addled and drunks,the malingerers, etc...
same with medicare....now, its not important that my paycheck pays for everybody else, and now again, its not important that there is nothing left for me....
I understand Robin Hood more and more each day....
That’s all well and good but did the email writer not know that his representatives in Congress were spending like drunken sailors and didn’t the people of Montana (like every other state) support geting all the PORK they could possibly get from the Federal goverment?
We are all to blame for this debt fiasco, every damn one of us. We took all the pork and elected Congress people who promised to get us more pork. Muliply that by every Congress person for the last 50 years and you got a whole lot of porkulus.
So is there a link to a story here that I missed?