Today is my last day on the job, i just turned 75 last month and one of the reasons i am quitting is because the job has been going down hill and the other reason is that there are other things i would like to do.
I don,t think i can live on a little more than a thousand a month but i figure on making a fortune by prospecting for gold, ha ha.
The only difference between social security and the internet ponzi schemes is that on the internet it is voluntary, however there are so many people just like me who are of the will of the wisp type and do not think of the future, that and the fact that i have been self employed a few times, ( yeah those rich business men ) many people felt something had to be done so they came up with what we got.
As some one once told me, Government is full of educated fools and the bigger government gets the more fools they get, it is time to try a different kind of retirement plan.
At any rate i have paid into it for many years and i am not going to volunteer to let them keep it.
People on it or about to be on it will be the last — hopefully.
Instead of making EVERYONE “buy” into the government program, people in true need could be assisted — (just as with health care). It is wrong to force the states to adopt the federal program, force it on the entire country and grow federal control — it always goes bust.