It’s OUR money.”
I get so tired of hearing that SS recipients are “living large off the government”. I paid into SS beginning in 1955 and since I have had my own business since 1985, still do but pay both sides of the freight.
Exactly.
I have been paying in since I was 14.
Exactly! I have left the Republican party just because of Social Security and them wanting to “reform” it. NO! It’s self-supporting.......money paid in by workers all their working lives and it doesn’t need reforming. The goobers need to pay it back and leave it the hell alone!!!
At any time during the intervening sixty years did you ever question whether such a contribution could reasonably generate value for you now, given how the government has been spending the money and promising even more?
If you had contributed this money to a known Ponzi scheme instead of to the government, how much would you be due?
The money you contributed has been SPENT; all of it. The only thing remaining is the "true faith and credit" of the United States. Is it not obvious that such faith is misplaced and that the U.S. will never be able to provide the expected value to future generations?
You should be prepared to be thankful if you receive anything at all and also be prepared to be condemned by future generations for having fallen for such a fraud.
You are no more justified in expecting payment than those future generations who we know will not be paid.