Gross misrepresentation. -I’ve been paying into Social Security for years, really decades. Shut it down only if a full refund of contributions is made.-Or is this a representation of the 1% taking the funds through tax cuts and increased military spending and no-bid contracts for a few close personal friends in the 1%?
You know, the TIME Magazine cover isn’t going to fit every political argument. Not many mothers have been storing up lactate for 75 years, or letting any of it be diverted to other uses, or letting anti-breastfeeding companies lie about its sustainability. Okay, maybe Nestle is guilty of that last part …
We have to face the fact that retiring at approximately 65 made sense when introduced by Bismark in the late 19th century. Life expectancy was 55 so not a lot of people collected. Now people collect on retirement for 20 years (those who reach retirement age have a higher than average life expectancy). Society can’t support that number of people doing nothing for that long in any kind of comfortable life style.
Okay, putting money into a government account is a “tax”. Giving your money to Prudential is only a premium. And handing your money over to JP Morgan, Bain Capital, or some derivative fund to take your money and leave you high and dry when you need it, is an “investment”.
Insurance companies count on you dying, borrowing against your policy, or missing a premium, so THEY can invest your money, and never pay you back, anything. “investment” firms just plan on not getting caught, even though they’ve re-written almost every regulation to their benefit under those “conservative” administrations and rule makers (even the ones who were supposedly “liberals”).
Anyone blaming “government” and SS for being a ripoff, hasn’t paid ANY attention to what corporations and “private” has done to folks.
I know you are wrong. You now have no credibility with me, and you probably won’t be able to earn it back as I believe you won’t even try. Maybe you are playing a semantics game. --I paid and if it isn’t going to be there, I want my money back and now with interest, 5% compounded daily.
The debt ceiling is going to be a fight Again. What people didn’t know last year and don’t remember now, is the budget is needed to pay what we ALready owe. Not a permit for futher spending.
cjr53 almost 12 years ago
Gross misrepresentation. -I’ve been paying into Social Security for years, really decades. Shut it down only if a full refund of contributions is made.-Or is this a representation of the 1% taking the funds through tax cuts and increased military spending and no-bid contracts for a few close personal friends in the 1%?
Jerry Beck Premium Member almost 12 years ago
Disgusting.
Michael Peterson Premium Member almost 12 years ago
You know, the TIME Magazine cover isn’t going to fit every political argument. Not many mothers have been storing up lactate for 75 years, or letting any of it be diverted to other uses, or letting anti-breastfeeding companies lie about its sustainability. Okay, maybe Nestle is guilty of that last part …
Heavy B almost 12 years ago
If you pay money to the govt, and don’t get it back, thats called a tax. I thought CONservatives were against tax incrases.
zoidknight almost 12 years ago
Democrats suck. They created this entitlement mess.
pdchapin almost 12 years ago
We have to face the fact that retiring at approximately 65 made sense when introduced by Bismark in the late 19th century. Life expectancy was 55 so not a lot of people collected. Now people collect on retirement for 20 years (those who reach retirement age have a higher than average life expectancy). Society can’t support that number of people doing nothing for that long in any kind of comfortable life style.
joe vignone almost 12 years ago
I’d rather have the tit the corporations and Wall St. are feeding on, much much bigger.
Dtroutma almost 12 years ago
Okay, putting money into a government account is a “tax”. Giving your money to Prudential is only a premium. And handing your money over to JP Morgan, Bain Capital, or some derivative fund to take your money and leave you high and dry when you need it, is an “investment”.
Insurance companies count on you dying, borrowing against your policy, or missing a premium, so THEY can invest your money, and never pay you back, anything. “investment” firms just plan on not getting caught, even though they’ve re-written almost every regulation to their benefit under those “conservative” administrations and rule makers (even the ones who were supposedly “liberals”).
Anyone blaming “government” and SS for being a ripoff, hasn’t paid ANY attention to what corporations and “private” has done to folks.
cjr53 almost 12 years ago
I know you are wrong. You now have no credibility with me, and you probably won’t be able to earn it back as I believe you won’t even try. Maybe you are playing a semantics game. --I paid and if it isn’t going to be there, I want my money back and now with interest, 5% compounded daily.
pam Miner almost 12 years ago
The debt ceiling is going to be a fight Again. What people didn’t know last year and don’t remember now, is the budget is needed to pay what we ALready owe. Not a permit for futher spending.