I feel the same way even about the Social Security we were forced to pay into that and I don’t give a rats azz if the politicians stole it both of us paid in over 40 years each and we want our money back.
To not do so would be outright theft which many on here seem to have no problem with.
Our home is paid for and we have no debts and it’s bad enough that because of the fed’s printing which is devaluing the dollar we are experiencing inflation on every day things we need, i.e., food, gas and getting next to nothing on our savings. The banks are just parking the money and earning far more interest then we are.
If people want to end socialist security, then I have no problem with paying out what people have put in ( I get a statement each year, and have paid more than 350K into this ponzi scheme...with that money, I could live comfortably for the rest of my life ) but the problem is that conservatives want to deny me the cash and the retirement....the libs want to take the cash I saved over 35 years and confiscate it to bolster up the program that I have already paid more than 350K into....I owe next to nothing on my home, yet a repo of my home sells for less than I owe after paying for 22 years....It is my opinion that both libs and conservatives want to screw the 45 to 65 year old population in order to keep those on socialist security on it, and to keep the younger ones wanting to pay into it.....I refuse to be screwed in order to achieve this...leave my money alone, and pay me back what I have put in...nothing more, nothing less..and I will happily opt out of all government assistance from that point forward...take from me what I have spent a lifetime working for, and I will have nothing left to lose..and as my grandpa used to say...” Who is the most dangerous person in the world? A person that has nothing to lose”..........