they voted for the people who spent their money. screw them all. making one generation pay for the mistakes of another gerneration is not the solution.
i'm 36 and have been paying in for twenty years now and have nothing to show for it. i'll be paying in for another 20 years and then what? NOTHING
you can have my first twenty years, just shut the damn thing down or let me the hell out.
In a Ponzi scheme such as the SSI the first users are the real beneficiaries. That would have been those retiring in the late 1930's and 1940's, and possibly 1950's, who would have been paid more than they paid in. All of those people have probably passed on.
Re: this thread the writer speaks my own strong sentiments very precisely. We are sheeple after all, contained in a box to be milked like batteries. When the train wreck happens and revolution comes maybe the bureaucrats and politicians who have a pension because they opted out of SS will then understand the acute ire of the masses.
I never voted for any socialists and I didn’t ride in on a horse, thanks.
Without enough financial smarts to really discuss this, I did want to say that I have been retired several years and get a $752.00 SS check each month. It’s nearly all I have, after working 35 years - a lot of them years when women didn’t make as much money as men did - and I feel like it is owed to me because I paid it in, as I think most would have to agree. Like many women raising their kids alone while working full time (four legal kids born while married, in the long-ago days when it was still popular/acceptable to have kids!), I really didn’t have anything extra for investing or saving. I made sure I would own my final home with a mortgage so small I could handle it on SS - so I did that right. I didn’t bite on the drug coverage scam; can’t afford it and don’t want it. I have told all my kids - the oldest is 50 - not to count on SS being there for them, to make what arrangements they can NOW. So don’t talk about pulling the rug out from under me because YOU are mad. And yes, this is why the broke system isn’t going to be fixed quickly, easily, or very well. But when my generation dies off, have at it.