from someone paying income tax dutifully for 30 years and then signing up for food stamps?
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Nice play on words.
Are you related to Bill Clinton?
Sound like him.
I am referring to the statement he made saying anyone drawing a check from the government was in the same class....be it welfare, unemployment, retirement and believe he basically singled out Military Retirement and Welfare, saying it was the same thing.
Yes, in terms of words (like your above question)it is still a check from the government but not in the same vein.
What would your reaction be if say an insurance policy you paid into for 50 years suddenly became ‘due’ and the insurance company told you they put the money in another, similar but different program so they are not obligated to pay you?
I was ‘told’ at the tender age of 14 that what ‘they’ took from me would be mine eventually, I believed them and now I expect them to pony up....(go ahead and read some sarcasm here)...
For what it may be worth when I (we) were in our mid 30’s-40’s really didn’t believe we would ever see a penny of FICA either....
Right on!
No, it was no play on words. I ask you to explain to me how it was different in actuality. Either by law, or how the accounts are structured or in any tangible way. Not what you were "told" but in actual practice.
You didn't do it (in fact did just the opposite). You couldn't do it and it can't be done, because of the simple fact there is no difference.
There isn't, wasn't and has never, ever, ever been a set aside account for persons' pensions in Social Security. It was always a tax and always a welfare check.
You want to get that check. That's understandable. Shaniqua wants her EBT card charged at the first of the month too.
But it's nothing belonging to you, it wasn't set aside for you, there's no account for you, you're just getting someone else' income tax payment or borrowings from the Chinese.
You don't have to be honest with someone on an internet board, but I hope you're at least honest with yourself on what you're actually getting.