agreed.... I am sick and tired of people calling me greedy for wanting nothing more than what I paid into socialist security...to date I have paid over 350,000.00 DOLLARS into the system...that is not rubles, or pesos...that is 350K of U.S. dollars....if some greedy ass, get reelected at all costs politican spent it, that is not my problem...I am not greedy, it’s the damn politicans that are...lets put the blame where it belongs...
Let’s put the politicians where they belong ... at the looped end of a rope maybe? What did they do with thieves in the Old West? And that’s what said politicians have shown themselves to be!
I agree with most of your statement. The only problem I have is with the politicians. The American people put them in office but did not control them. We are at fault to some degree. Now it’s time to fix it. Don’t let them collect full pensions for just serving one term. Don’t let them put all the taxes we pay into a general fund so we can’t track the money. We need to re-do how the politicians operate. They work for us and need to be controlled.
Whose problem is it then? Mine? My kids? I don't think so.
If somebody (in this case, the greedy ass politician) owes you money and doesn't have it, it most certainly IS your problem.
You're greedy. You know - or should know - damn well that that money isn't there, and it can only be given to you by taking it from the next generation which is guaranteed to get nothing of value at all in exchange for what you wish to take from them.
It was your responsibility to keep tabs on that money and hold the politicians who spent it (much of that at a time when the people you expect to pay for it were too young to get a vote in the matter, if they were even born yet). You failed that responsibility. It is not the next generation's job to make up for your failures.
There are few evils more pernicious than intergenerational debt.
How many years have you paid into the system? Have you always paid at the top of the wage cap? Are you including both your and your employer's contribution?
Back when my Daughter was about 4 or 5 years old (she turned 16 this year) was at a Q&A with a Politiclown that was running for the Rep Party nomination for my House District.
He was going on about how important Social Security would be to our children. I started asking questions about the SS program and it was quickly evident this clown had no knowledge of how it all worked. He was incredulous that I thought Social Security was a joke. He said he would go to Washington to protect my daughter's SS.
I had to the dollar of what I and my wife had paid into SS plus being an employer a ball park figure of how much I had matched in employee contributions.
I told him that if he could instead guarantee me that my daughter would never have her money taken from her by force to fund the "Ponzi Scheme" known as Social Security he could have every dollar I and my wife paid in plus all future mandatory payments we would have to pay in and we would call it even.
He just sputtered and told me I was being unreasonable. Yet many in the audience applauded and many of them were elderly Social Security recipients.
Each of those $350,000 were paid out to someone else the same year you paid them in. Your money is long gone. SS is a Ponzi scheme and you’ll be very fortunate if you receive 25 cents on the dollar when it’s time for you to start drawing.
Furthermore, the maximum annual contribution is a little over $6000. Have you been contributing for 58 years?
If they had let me keep my own money, I would be rich and out of debt. This deduction from my wages, if not repaid to me with interest, is a theft under any statute, state or federal.
“I am sick and tired of people calling me greedy for wanting nothing more than what I paid into socialist security”
What you paid into Social Security isn’t there waiting for you. It was used to pay for this or that, including the retirements of other people while you were working. You are greedy for wanting still other people to pay for you, especially since obviously the system is bankrupt.
There are idiots out there and even those who post here that will spew MSM rhetoric without even looking at those numbers. I’ve posted numbers that include compounded interest and the totals that would have accrued in the years since 1967 when I began to have money withheld from my pay to no avail. It’s still “welfare” to those “well educated” idiots.
Your corrupt government looted SS. While government employees retire in their 50s, with lottery style tax paid retirement pensions, top shelf medical benefits, and now, the government is giving social security to hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens, all while charging your for hundreds of billion for illegal alien medical care and for them to have millions of anchor babies on U.S. soil.
And they tell ya your greedy and receiving entitlements which you're not entitled to?
We've been had.
Unless you made over 80,000 for the last 27 years then you could not have paid in over $350,000
I questioning your math - nothing else
To paraphrase Patrick Henry, “Under this constitution, there will never be a law against passing a bad law. Where is the means to punish them?”