Social Security benefits when we retire

bobbyd3

I think that possibly our own gluttony will be the problem solver for S.S.

Think about it we are a generation raised on mcdonalds, most people eat fast food at least 2-3 times a week, then even at home they eat quick microwavable, or ready to eat mixes that contain massive amounts of fat etc..

Id say that theirs gonna be a massive health crisis in 20-30 years, all the people who have eaten 10 big macs a week their whole life wont live long enough to collect.

But seriously, the system is fucked. The government needs to stop worrying about Iraq and all the other military BS that they stick their hand in and worry about its own people.

Their are people in our own country right now as you read this who havent eaten in days, not just adults but children. Yet we spend billions and billions of dollars on all these military conflicts.
All the money spent on war could of been invested and solved the S.S problem 2 years ago.

monkey spanker

bobbyd3 wrote:

I think that possibly our own gluttony will be the problem solver for S.S.

Think about it we are a generation raised on mcdonalds, most people eat fast food at least 2-3 times a week, then even at home they eat quick microwavable, or ready to eat mixes that contain massive amounts of fat etc..

Id say that theirs gonna be a massive health crisis in 20-30 years, all the people who have eaten 10 big macs a week their whole life wont live long enough to collect

heck, that makes it worse. you work your balls off your whole life, then die and you don't leave alot to your family. but 12.4% of your earnings were going to the gov't the whole time..socialism sucks.

melodious

RainDog wrote:

Funny that. I'll have to let my grandparents know that the money they've been receiving isn't in fact Social Security. That the money they paid into the system was all stolen from them, and that these checks must be coming from somewhere else.

Social Security has been modified before, and if necessary can be modified again. However, it is not the massive failure those on the right like to make it out to be. You will be getting a few pennies from it, know, don't worry.

yes it has....they are trying to say that gov't didn't check up on applicants and recipients prior to 1996 or maybe 1990...i knew of several people collecting ssi benefits right from their litte prison cells...they should have watched that in the first place...and the other one they didn't check up on until a serial killer revealed homicide path in Sacramento California...do you remember the retirement boarding house where owner of the house was everyone payee and then they found a bunch of bodies buried under her grounds? that's where they screwed it up...another way i see SS system lagging is by giving ssi to kids who haven't even gone to highschool yet....then they are taught to function off of stupid and be dependent on it...

Purple Hawk

I thought Bush's plan to let people have a choice, and to invest money in the stock market was a really good idea. But I really don't plan on relying on other people (ie the government) to pay for my retirement, so I really don't care what happens to the "system" given the "drilling for fear" tactics used by AARP and other left-leaning organizations.

sponger

So I was standing in front of starbuck's sipping my green tea frappacino the other day when an aging, overweight, and very scruffy looking semi-homeless looking man began speaking to me.

He was sitting at a table with a latte in one hand and a cigarette in the other. In front of him on the table was a small bucket containing car cleaning paraphernalia.

After some dialogue, I realized that he was mentally ill. He informed me that he was an aircraft designer contracted by the government to design Air Force I, but that the government had failed to compensate him for his work. He produced his driver's license for me and pointed out how it contained special holograms which indicated his status as a government employee.

So, because the government was refusing to pay him for his aircraft design services, he was forced to make ends meet by washing cars with his hand-held car washing kit. A client of his was supposed to meet him at that starbucks an hour before, but had apparently stood him up.

He mentioned that he could not find work after exhaustively searching, and that his only means of survival was his social security check.

Like I said, he was an old fat guy whose mind was clearly not stable enough to make him employable. I have no problem with people like him collecting social security. Actually, I think it's worth it for me to pay into social security as long as the money goes to people who have earned it or who truly could not live w/o it in spite of their best intentions.

monkey spanker

man, be careful who you talk to.