[MontaniSemperLiberi]

The money is gone. It was spent. The politicians spent it. They left IOU’s.

Just because someone robs you doesn’t mean you get to eat your neighbor’s food.

[MD Expat in PA]

I’ve got a question for you DJ. Your profile states you are a “housewife, mother and grandmother, married to the same man for 41 years”

So if it’s not too presumptuous for me to ask and I’m not trying to be offensive or call you out personally, but have you ever held a job and had SS and Medicare deductions taken out of your paycheck? Are you and or your husband retired and now collecting SS benefits?

Why are you so passionate about collecting SS benefits when you yourself “may” have never contributed yourself?

You are also very active in soliciting donations to FR (not that I’m complaining ;)). But I presume that in doing so, you also make contributions yourself and that would indicate to me that you have at least some disposable income and aren’t exactly sitting in a cold dark house eating Alpo.

So why should I as a younger and still working person, some 15 years or more from my own retirement, be expected to supplement your retirement with my contributions? How exactly is that not an “entitlement” in your opinion?

[DJ MacWoW]

Not buying it. I have already given my reasons and alternatives repeatedly. Not doing it again. You want to engage in generational warfare, find someone else. Oh and, I'm not on SS.

Have a nice evening.