I agree, as long as it's a gradual phase-out where current recipients get theirs. I've planned my entire working life as if SS didn't exist, and that's true of most GenXers I know, but lots of older folks (including my mom) didn't.
well if you were in the generation that was going to pay for it all, you might have a different opinion.
not your fault, but genX will pay for it all.
trust me it's painful to pay into it for 35 years and pretty much know it'll be bankrupt by the time I'm eligible for it.
so I'll have funded it my entire working life for two previous generations, and get nothing out of the money i could've put to work somewhere else with far better "returns"...even if i did receive the "entitlement" in the end.
that doesn't seem fair...and that's why I've made plans otherwise.
yeah, at no time in my working life (beginning in 1989 at 16) have I considered social security deductions anything but a non-returnable theft from my pay to thinly fund old people's retirements.
the idea that I'd ever see it back looked ludicrous, even in high school where I was barely informed at all about the money and political structures I was going to be subjected to as I became independent from the parental units.
THIS
social security has to go...as well as Medicare/Medicaid.
now I'm really going to get my knuckles rapped by the crowed....lol
Social Security can make it, but the medical scam industry has to be torn down and rebuilt in order for us to survive.
probably better not to rebuild rockefeller medicine.
I agree, as long as it's a gradual phase-out where current recipients get theirs. I've planned my entire working life as if SS didn't exist, and that's true of most GenXers I know, but lots of older folks (including my mom) didn't.
Agree. Thats the only sensible way to do it.
And that's what older folks need to realize:
We're fine with that. It would be unfair to them otherwise...they don't have as much time.
But that doesn't mean we don't get to bitch about it!...;)
That seems fair...
LetтАЩs not forget the cost of war, both monetary and human costs.
The pentagon has been turned loose by a Congress so lax.
Your Grandma needs to do some damage to those knuckles, Ryan.
Lolol...still love ya, JuQu.
well if you were in the generation that was going to pay for it all, you might have a different opinion.
not your fault, but genX will pay for it all.
trust me it's painful to pay into it for 35 years and pretty much know it'll be bankrupt by the time I'm eligible for it.
so I'll have funded it my entire working life for two previous generations, and get nothing out of the money i could've put to work somewhere else with far better "returns"...even if i did receive the "entitlement" in the end.
that doesn't seem fair...and that's why I've made plans otherwise.
yeah, at no time in my working life (beginning in 1989 at 16) have I considered social security deductions anything but a non-returnable theft from my pay to thinly fund old people's retirements.
the idea that I'd ever see it back looked ludicrous, even in high school where I was barely informed at all about the money and political structures I was going to be subjected to as I became independent from the parental units.
I do understand, Ryan. Was just having a little fun with you. Keep smiling.