[Billy_bob_bob]

No wonder they raised the retirement age to 70. What Social Security crisis? They'll just work us until we drop, then we get one or two checks before it's time to dump us in the old ash heap. Heck, by the time I'm 70 they'll have raised it to 75, by the time I'm 75 it'll be 80, by the time I'm 80 I'll be dead. Nothing like getting a good return on your investment.

Social Security - such a deal! How can anyone not love a socialist welfare program like Social Security? Just because they give away billions every year to people who never paid a dime into the system, so that the rest of us who actually pay into the system can work until we die! Boy, sure makes me feel good about working hard and paying taxes my whole life.

[vikingchick]

Good rant. It's like in Catch 22~~every time they reached the number of missions they had to fly, they raised the number of missions they had to fly.

[Marine Inspector]

I was thinking the same thing.

[mo]

That how SS started. In 1935 the average age of death was 62 for men, 65 for women...congress saw the whole thing as a great PR stunt.

[BureaucratusMaximus]

Social Security - such a deal! How can anyone not love a socialist welfare program like Social Security?

Not only do I love it, but I'll help pay for it (not voluntarily of course) for the next 25 years, only to get nothing from it.

OOOOoooooohhhh YEAH!!!

[Publius6961]

What Social Security crisis? They'll just work us until we drop, then we get one or two checks before it's time to dump us in the old ash heap

It is a little known fact that when the original Ponzi scheme was created the retirement age was chosen statistically to exclude all of the "protected" workers.

Advances in science and medicine went and screwed it all up...