I retired from public education in Texas in 2012. I am not a teacher, but worked all of those years in administration. I do not have a bachelor’s degree, so my salary was minimal. Although I worked 17 years in the private sector before going into education, my contribution to SSA was only during those years in the private sector. For a while it did not matter to me financially. I was married to a investment banker. But, once we divorced at turn of century, my salary is all on me now. In 2012, my SSA benefit would have been $550 a month. But, because of the windfall elimination tax, I only receive $247 a month. The Feds don’t want me double dipping now with a fancy State of Texan pension. The millions of educators and professors with high salaries were able to high-jack the government for 50 years, but not me once I took on retirement. Gaining an extra $200 a month allows me to even buy some groceries (for a day or two).
I asked Senator John Cornyn when the WEA was in front of the Senate to repeal this law, and his response back to me was “it is too costly.”
Too costly for those in DC, but could they give a crap about a poor old lady in Texas? Hell NO
“I asked Senator John Cornyn when the WEA was in front of the Senate to repeal this law, and his response back to me was “it is too costly.””
Too costly to pay you what you earned. Of course the Mexican immigrants get much more than your cool 250 a month. You need to fly to Monterrey, wade the Rio Grande and show up with a new name that ends in “Z”. They’ll hand you a debit card with 1200 bucks preloaded, and more follows right away.
They pass bills now, trillions in size at a time. They dump 6 trillion on Afghanistan. They dump hundreds of billions on New York Schools that are closed. 200k here for Fauci to give tranny drugs to monkeys. Millions for Fauci to give to communist China.
But how dare you as a mere Texas school marm deign to want the 500 bucks you were owed by SS without the docking half of it? How unpatriotic of you! /s