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Name:   Scottie The author of this post is registered as a member - Email Member
Subject:   Its a drop in the bucket
Date:   1/16/2013 10:18:18 AM


MartiniMan, If you called SS an unfunded entitlement program because that is what you've been told by the media and some of your elected officials I can understand your confusion.  So let me enlighten you just a little.
SS is unfunded because republicans and democrats alike have raided the SS funds time and again to fund various real entitlement programs for their own purposes.
I have worked since I was 15 years old and I'm now 66, thats 51 years that SS deductions have been taken out of my paycheck and matched by my employers as well.  My life expectancy is age 80 give or take a few years.  In that time I will draw about $1600 a month with $104 a month deducted for medicare.  That leaves me with less than $1500 a month.  I will never get back more money than has been paid into my SS account on my behalf. 
Now, if you can, please answer these two questions.
1.  How can you call SS and entitlement program when I have paid for it all of my life?
2.  How can you call SS and unfunded program when I have paid in far more than I will ever get back?

It is insulting to me and everyone who draws SS to call it an entitlement program when in fact it is not.  The cowards in Washington have begun to call it that so they can deceive you into thinking that this is a freeby that comes from the goodness of the government's heart.  Something like earned income credit, food stamps, housing subsidies, federal education aid to poor families.  Fact is they have even started printing "entitlement program" on the SS checks.  I think that is so they can make retired people feel like they don't deserve what they have paid for.
(Rant over)
Other messages in this thread:View Entire Thread
Debt Ceiling - Buteye - 1/15/2013 7:16:03 AM
     Hey Archie, where are the calls for compromise now - MartiniMan - 1/15/2013 9:42:14 AM
          Hey Archie, where are the calls for compromise now - GoneFishin - 1/15/2013 1:59:03 PM
               Tea Party and compromise - MartiniMan - 1/15/2013 3:43:31 PM
                    Tea Party and compromise - Scottie - 1/15/2013 4:17:57 PM
          The time for compromise - architect - 1/15/2013 10:23:12 PM
               The time for compromise - buzzbuster - 1/16/2013 1:21:11 AM
                    Its a drop in the bucket - MartiniMan - 1/16/2013 9:00:56 AM
                         Its a drop in the bucket - Scottie - 1/16/2013 10:18:18 AM
                              Its a drop in the bucket - MartiniMan - 1/16/2013 2:55:29 PM
                         Its a drop in the bucket - buzzbuster - 1/16/2013 1:19:23 PM
                              Its a drop in the bucket - MartiniMan - 1/16/2013 2:58:50 PM
                                   It was LBJ - Lifer - 1/16/2013 3:41:56 PM
               Of course you have a double standard - MartiniMan - 1/16/2013 8:52:47 AM



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