Replies

SS could be made whole if it were run like a non government insurance company. Every so often the rates go up or the bennies go down if you operate on insurance assumptions. The government mandates the rates that go out and in every election cycle so it gets screwed up to the max. Remember just this year we had "no inflation" so Obama ruled that a $250 check be sent out even though there was no inflation. Same with unemployment. It's an insurance policy that pays for 26 weeks that the boss pays. Then The government mandates we pay 99 weeks. With what money? We only paid for 26 weeks.

Also we have illegals getting it now and we have immigrants with green cards getting it. We have put kids on SSI because they act up in class and get Ritalin now. Many adults that have never paid in get it because somebody says they are retarded. It has just become a mess.

I'm retired now and waiting to draw mine a couple of years from now, but I would have gladly given mine up at 45-50 if they would have let me put my money and my business match in my 401K. I would be much better off and the taxpayer wouldn't have to worry about me.

What America needs to learn quickly is, if the gubmint doesn't get involved, they can't mess it up, they can't run out of money, and they won't have waste and fraud. If we just eliminate these programs, the problems will go away. If Medicare has $100 billion a year in waste and fraud, then get out of Medicare. If you feel the need, send everybody a check to buy their own. The costs would miraculously be the same as the check the gubmint sends and you would screw yourself if you wasted it. How did we get educated before the Education Dept? We produced more oil without the Energy Dept than afterward. Give me a month and I would cut the government 50% or even more. We don't need most of the stuff they do and all we are doing is paying bureaucrats to download porn for 30 years and then pay them to retire for more money than I ever made. Why is Cisco laying off 20k people and no one has lost their job in DC? Just mandate a 10% cut if nothing else. That way they would have to work at least 3-4 hours a day.