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To: Sparticus

I’m sorry but Welfare is an item you did not pay for.
SSI and Medicare was taken from my check for 40 years!
And I paid for it! Do you need a check stub? Well you can look at as a freebie for your SSI but I myself have a different veiwpoint! Regardless of where it went it was paid!


26 posted on 07/02/2013 12:02:53 PM PDT by Conserev1 ("Still Clinging to my Bible and my Weapon")
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To: Conserev1
I’m sorry but Welfare is an item you did not pay for. SSI and Medicare was taken from my check for 40 years! And I paid for it! Do you need a check stub? Well you can look at as a freebie for your SSI but I myself have a different veiwpoint! Regardless of where it went it was paid!

Your argument is half correct. You paid, but you weren't actually paying for your own old-age welfare in advance, you were paying for your parents' and other folks' old-age welfare. That's the way the system was designed from the start. The money we've all paid in over the years was spent as fast as it came in. As such, current seniors are in reality receiving transfer payments from the current working generation. You may feel you are "owed" your old age welfare, but don't think that you are getting "your money" back, because it is long, long gone. You're getting your kid's and grandkids (mortgaged) money, which you most certainly didn't earn yourself.

32 posted on 07/02/2013 2:20:39 PM PDT by Sparticus (Tar and feathers for the next dumb@ss Republican that uses the word bipartisanship.)
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