As you may know, illegal aliens are recieving SS disability and retirement. What you may not know is that TOO many American Citizens having paid into SS for decades are not. I am 55, disabled...told to go on disability by my doctor, yes I have proof. Five years of application to SSA and still no answer. I had to sell my home. I get no medical care. Please read the comments on the following petition by it’s signers. I hope you will explore this travesty. The employees, especially contract ones are milking this system ) while people are dying.
http://www.PetitionOnline.com/SSDC/petition.htmlAs you may know, illegal aliens are recieving SS disability and retirement. What you may not know is that TOO many American Citizens having paid into SS for decades are not.That is a down right disgusting scenario to say the least.
I, myself, have worked and paid into SS since I was 14.(a long time) I have never faultered in my input to it for I have been employed since. I have spent years working 15 to 20 hour days on salary which has brought my hourly rate down to $8 an hour with a $65,000/yr job.
If I had my SS input to invest on my own, after I suffered an aortic dissection and survived, I would be retired now. Since I pay 55% of my gross income, through total tax burden, to government annually, I'll be lucky to live long enough to afford the luxury of retirement.
My appologies for my rant, however I wanted to emphasize my empathy for you.