BARBARA GARSON, a lifelong partisan of the socialist left, is the author of the play "MacBird" and a new comedy about pensions, "Security."
To: Mrs. Don-o
I once read in the mid 1980's that from May/December marriages that at teh time the VA was still paying pensions and benefits on about 90 to 100 Civil War (War of Northern Agression) veterans widows.
2 posted on
07/27/2006 12:21:36 PM PDT by
Hydroshock
( (Proverbs 22:7). The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.)
To: Mrs. Don-o
3 posted on
07/27/2006 12:22:30 PM PDT by
sauropod
(Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys." PJO)
To: Mrs. Don-o
I guess posting a little something about personal ethics and morals would be out of bounds here....
4 posted on
07/27/2006 12:23:46 PM PDT by
Adder
(Can we bring back stoning again? Please?)
To: Mrs. Don-o
Why is it that political "lefties" always use someone else's money to advance their various "causes", be via a million different government jobs, private foundations corrupted into political vehicles, or now in this new twist, the aged.
The answer is that the leftist use people and abuse people. Absent any firm ethical mooring, they'll do anything to anybody to advance their cause, because, well, their cause is just. They are the ultimate narcissists.
SFS
To: Mrs. Don-o
I was about to post a long angry reply, but then something caught my attention.
BARBARA GARSON is the author of...a new comedy about pensions, "Security."
Perhaps this a joke, or a satire of some sort. I was initially amazed at how stupid people can be, until I realized that it's SO stupid it might be satire.
If it's not, then God help us all.
To: Mrs. Don-o
Doesn't work that way!!
Social Security survivors benefits can be paid to:
- A widow or widower -- full benefits at full retirement age, or reduced benefits as early as age 60
- A disabled widow or widower -- as early as age 50
- A widow or widower at any age if he or she takes care of the deceased's child who is under age 16 or disabled, and receiving Social Security benefits
http://www.ssa.gov/ww&os2.htm
To: Mrs. Don-o
Ummm... something about the word FRAUD comes to mind...
15 posted on
07/27/2006 12:33:08 PM PDT by
LibertyRocks
(MY BLOG: http://libertyrocks.wordpress.com)
To: Mrs. Don-o; eyespysomething
The pension and health benefits are the reason I married an older woman. I don"t see what’s wrong with it.
16 posted on
07/27/2006 12:35:54 PM PDT by
SittinYonder
(Ic þæt gehate, þæt ic heonon nelle fleon fotes trym, ac wille furðor gan,)
To: Mrs. Don-o
Reason #5782 that the public dole, in all it's forms, is evil.
17 posted on
07/27/2006 12:36:22 PM PDT by
gridlock
(The 'Pubbies will pick up two (2) seats in the Senate and four (4) seats in the House in 2006)
To: Mrs. Don-o
Maaaaaan oh man something like that could turn out to be spooky. I can just hear the conversation....
"Ms. Weatherby, um....I don't think this is fair...."
"Oh, now come come sonny boy, don't you disappoint an old lady. Why then I'd have to just write you off of my benefits and then where would you be you little darling? What is it you have again?"
"Osteosarcoma."
"Well there you go. Now you want your trip to the lovely little doctor you better give old Betty Weatherby some sugar. Now you want me to take my teeth out like last time or would you rather I left them in?"
"siiiiiiiiighhhhhhTake them out, I guess."
18 posted on
07/27/2006 12:36:33 PM PDT by
domenad
(In all things, in all ways, at all times, let honor guide me.)
To: Mrs. Don-o
Gee, I thought Congress fixed this problem in the mid-1980s, but I guess they fixed it the way they fixed the illegal immigration problem.
Oh, what they did was to fix the problem for federal employees by making the amount a spouse gets depend upon the spouse's age. But they didn't do it for the social fraudsters.
To: Mrs. Don-o
If the SSA went after a couple of these Senior Citizens and reneged on their pensions due to fraud, this would end right quick.
20 posted on
07/27/2006 12:38:36 PM PDT by
gridlock
(The 'Pubbies will pick up two (2) seats in the Senate and four (4) seats in the House in 2006)
To: Mrs. Don-o
All I can say, Barbara, is if this is your idea of a retirement plan, your ass is doomed. Pension benefits and social security for someone who retired 25 or 30 years ago won't even pay for cat food by the time you're helpless and in your dotage.
And you got a really nasty bunch of Gen-Xer's who are gonna do everything they can to take that social security away from you when they outnumber boomers.
Hoped ya saved a lot of money when you were unemployed. Better start digging out all those vintage tie-dyed t-shirts and start peddling them on E-Bay...
22 posted on
07/27/2006 12:41:26 PM PDT by
Kenton
To: Mrs. Don-o
I think the point of this article (and I would assume the play) is to make fun of traditional marriage.
29 posted on
07/27/2006 12:55:03 PM PDT by
tdewey10
(It's time for the party to return to the principles of President Reagan.)
To: Mrs. Don-o
When you marry for money, you earn every cent....
41 posted on
07/27/2006 1:36:06 PM PDT by
durasell
(!)
To: Mrs. Don-o
Now, I think this is satire. But I'm not laughing. It makes me want to cry because I can see lefties really doing this sort of thing. As may FReeper opine: It's getting harder and harder to tell.
To: Mrs. Don-o
We might as well squeeze the most we can out of the remnants of the real jobs we used to have in this country.
So protest/demonstration/activist/gubmint are the only "real jobs"? I hate hippies.
49 posted on
07/27/2006 3:12:12 PM PDT by
BJClinton
(What happens on Free Republic, stays on Google.)
To: Mrs. Don-o
If this scam was eminently profitable, you'd see numerous May to December marriages...which you don't.
56 posted on
07/27/2006 8:55:51 PM PDT by
Ciexyz
(Leaning on the everlasting arms.)
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