[RFEngineer]

Friend, the money you paid in the past is irrelevant to whether or not you’ll get anything back.

Right now the money you get is taken from somebody else who earned it, along with people who will be told to earn it in the future

This is true for anyone who gets a government check.

Nothing else matters.

You do not deserve other people’s money.

Your time to complain was when you were paying. Now that you are collecting a better strategy for you and other folks that get checks is to be nice to taxpayers, who are on the verge of dropping out of the tax base in increasing (worrisome) numbers.

Try being grateful for what other people give you. That the folks that took your money in the past were ungrateful is no reason for you to be rude and disrespectful to those who pay you today.

Those are the uncomfortable facts, my friend. You should get comfortable with them, or you’ll be making it all too easy for folks to feel good about cutting you off from their money.

[Travis McGee]

What happens when 50 million people who depend on food handouts are turned away, due to "reality" rearing it's ugly head?

[Resolute Conservative]

“Your time to complain was when you were paying.”

I have been complaining for over 35 years and my voting record and constant barrage of communication to my elected officials reflects it, sadly I and many others were ignored for the “greater good”.

[DJ Taylor]

“...you’ll be making it all too easy for folks to feel good about cutting you off from their money.”

This statement and your insulting “Moocher” label in reference to my generation identifies you as a probable member of Generation X, and my only regret is that I probably won't live long enough to see you Generation Xers get your just rewards.

[Elsie]

You do not deserve other people’s money.

While this may be true; we were TOLD that OUR money was INVESTED somewhere and it would be the INTEREST on this money that would sustain us; NOT 'other peoples money'.

Were we LIED to?

I doubt it; as the implementers of the system probably NEVER envisioned the money being looted by those later who wished to 'help' other folks out: mainly those who NEVER paid into the 'system'.

All I know is that not one single 'moocher' wrote ANY of the 'law' that we now have.

Sadly; life; like football; penalizes the WHOLE team when a foul is committed.

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Do we want to punt; or try to make up the yardage?