>The class-warfare kool-ade drinkers here never take into account that seniors who may be considered “wealthy” at the time of retirement because they have what is considered by the commies as “wealth” (meaning a few investments or assets of one kind or another) may overnight be wiped out of their savings in one way or another....catastrophic circumstances, U.S. economy failure, devaluation of the dollar or bad inflation, or whatever.
>They may be through no fault of their own be wiped out and are too aged or sick to work any more. They will have to rely on SS like many do now.
It’s ironic that you claim that other’s are ‘class warfare kool-ade drinkers’ when you are the one trundling out the sob stories about need.
To counter your specious argument about the means tested rich getting investments wiped out, well if those investments all of a sudden go away, then they will again be eligible for Social Security. That’s what means testing is after all.
>And these folks who are just getting by on social security monthly checks are not leeches....you probably know many of them. They are responsible and proud aged people who are your relatives, friends and neighbors. You may be one of them some day.
I don’t recall labeling anyone a leech. In fact it’s the chap who’s against means testing (Meyer) who’s lecturing us on the ‘leeches’.
>Many on this thread really think they’re NEVER going to get old and sick and perhaps penniless even if they were considered “wealthy” when they retired.
Means testing isn’t something done once and then you’re forgotten. If you encounter hardship and can show need, you would be eligible again.
You better decide what you’re arguing about because you’re all over the map.
Don’t argue about ‘need’ when disputing means testing.
But enjoy it whilst you may....in the New World Order, there will be no more "wealthy seniors" to cut down to size by fiat, no more "wealthy corporations and executives", no more "wealthy small business people" and, certainly, no more "wealthy heirs" who "never do anything to earn their benefactors' munificence" (even if they built up the family business).
Zeroing in on aging "wealthy seniors" is just the start.
In other words, no more "wealthy" sinners and their capital to invest in corporation stocks, to have adequate monetary backup to practice small business entrepeneurship, or to reach secure positions to be able to provide jobs for the masses....or to just support business and the economy in general by eating out, travelling and buying gifts, as "wealthy seniors" are wont to do.
The massively-wealthy government will then continue to practice "means-testing" on select segments of the enslaved population, and no one will dare or care to rise above the regularly-tested pack to become more "wealthy".....ever.
Leni