Social Security works as an insurance policy, not an investment. It would work better if we had honest competent government that didn’t sell out other Americans.
When we can’t trust our government to keep a promise because they are corrupt and incompetent who do we blame? As my profile has stated from my first post I don’t trust either Party. They serve their elite masters and not we the people nor do they represent average working Americans.
What about the 60 year old illegals or invitees from Yemen that came here a year or 10 years ago ago at the invitation of Obama and Bush and the US Chamber of Commerce and the DNC and RNC for cheap labor and votes that will soon be sucking on our Social Security trust? What about the SS trust money that was used from everything from war in Africa to tax cuts to food stamps, but not to defend our borders?
If it was a perfect world we’d be taking care of ourselves and our own families instead of waiting for politicians. Since it isn’t a perfect world, we’ll still be taking care of others that were irresponsible. It is why we need a system that gives a baseline support to those who funded much of it aside from welfare. But we shouldn’t be giving the funding away to run an incompetent government and fighting wars.
Well, we did take care of ourselves at one time.
Then the “Greatest Generation” voted for this @$$#0|& named Roosevelt.
No, Social Security is not an insurance policy, at least once you get to "old age" benefits. It does have provisions for survivor and disability, but while they do subtract from the actuarial balance, they are not the root cause of the problem.
What about the 60 year old illegals or invitees from Yemen that came here a year or 10 years ago ago at the invitation of Obama and Bush and the US Chamber of Commerce and the DNC and RNC for cheap labor and votes that will soon be sucking on our Social Security trust?
Social Security benefits are based the average of your highest 35 years of indexed wages. If you don't have 35 years of wages, the missing years are substituted with zero, thus lowering your average wage, and your monthly benefit. And, you must have contributed sufficient wages in 40 3-month periods to get any Social Security benefits at all. Any other benefits received will be coming out of the general fund.
What about the SS trust money that was used from everything from war in Africa to tax cuts to food stamps, but not to defend our borders?
If you had taken the time to read my posting, you would have seen that I already addressed this point, specifically to preempt it. It's not true, so please stop repeating this meme: