>>Your worry is well-founded because you seem stupid enough to cavalierly dismiss the system of Social Security retirement benefits as a con-game, let the syatem collapse, not hold the Simpsons of the country to account, and call everyone that paid in to the system (except yourself) fools. Your take on the whole thing shows you to be stupid.<<
You are misunderstanding my point: People who BELIEVED in SS were and are stupid. When I started work at 17 YO lo those 30+ years ago I could do basic math and figure that out.
They had no choice to pay, no more than any other Payroll tax — but until it is repealed it should be seen as evil at shoved down our throats that must be struck down.
There is no “system” to collapse — it is a house of cards. It will collapse on its own: better we just take it down and call it the failed experiment it was.
It is a “con game” — the biggest Ponzi scheme in the history of mankind. If YOU don’t see that, well, you are welcome to your own version of math.
If you depend on SS for anything other than bubble-gum money, then I pity you.
“If you depend on SS for anything other than bubble-gum money, then I pity you.”
No need to personalize the discussion, freedumber, because I don’t (depend on it). The fool you need to pity is you. Let’s get back to YOUR worry, the worry you expressed about your 401k. That is what you should worry about, because it is a government creature as much as SS, and it will crash with the markets. After all, any bond, note, security, whatever is nothing but a promise to pay and when markets collapse, so will your prized 401k, and it isn’t backed up by the power to tax. You are just too stupid to realize that you may be grateful for the SS retirement benefits you paid into for a whole 30 years, and which you will probably be paying into for another 20 years, at which time you will collect them, and then be glad you did pay into the system.