-MIKE- wrote:
On 2/14/15 9:26 AM, Mike Marlow wrote:
Ed Pawlowski wrote:
On 2/14/2015 8:46 AM, Swingman wrote:
On 2/14/2015 7:40 AM, Keith Nuttle wrote:

The Social Security Insurance program in my opinion was a very
poor investment.

A Ponzi scheme, by any definition of the term.


Very true, but. . . SS does guarantee some income for the masses.
Without it, we'd have a lot of poor older people too old to work
with NO savings or investment at all. Our politicians have
*******ized it over the years making it a give-away program for a
lot of people, not just the retired.

No kidding. It still p's me off that my brother retired on SSDI and
his two boys got 7 or 8 years of SSI until they got out of high
school - or turned 21 - I can't remember. Kids have not earned that
benefit, and I just don't buy into that program.


Why shouldn't your family get the benefits that you paid into from
your hard earned income?

In my mind Social Security is the only "entitlement" that IS entitled.
You're entitled to it because you paid into it. Just like
unemployment. You pay into it from every paycheck, so if you get
laid off it's there for you.

In my mind the employee is entitled to his or her fair share. I see no
reason why high school kids are deserving of that money just because the
parent is no longer working. Why should those kids receive $600 or $700 per
month? My brother got his full share immediately upon his retirement, so
why give more to the kids?

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-Mike-