We paid for the “Greatest Generation,” most of whom did not pay into SS all their lives.
The very first wave of Boomers are starting to retire now, and since they were not the overwhelming Bambi voters that the young were, they’re expendable.
If the SS fund had used that money properly, this wouldn’t be a problem. But I can bet you that this is not what Obama wants.
He doesn’t want the money put out of the reach of the Federal Government and invested, and he doesn’t want the hordes of SSI receivers (alcoholics, drug users, and sometimes even for things like “working gives me a migraine,” I kid you not) dumped from SS.
He doesn’t want to prevent his homies and his lobbyists and medical appliance companies and corrupt doctors from collecting billions in fraudulent payments from Medicare, or impose a modest co-pay on the low-income folks that might prevent them from regarding a $1,000 trip to the emergency room for a head cold to be a natural right.
He doesn’t want to reform anything in the way it should be done. He wants to install Obamacare to replace Medicare, and he simply wants to get rid of people who might logically expect to collect something from the retirement system into which they have paid all their lives.
I have to agree with you there.
As for the SSI scammers, that is true also. It is a huge racket. Parents know how to get their kids classified as "disabled" for conditions like sleep apnea, heart murmurs, and behavior problems that they convince some doctor to sign off as "autism" even when it isn't autism.
We have 1 in 7 Americans walking around with a Food Stamp (SNAP) ATM card in their back pocket.
When will this madness all stop?