I am surprised I'm the least L here. Maybe too many questions that aren't yes/no I just said no.
NO, I don't want to end SS. You can't just throw 10s of millions out on the street this moment. 20 years maybe, but not today. Rinse/repeat
The decision to throw 10s of millions into the street was made on August 14th 1935, and has been affirmed by each and every Legislative Body since then who has refused to act. The people collecting Social Security today are the same one that confirmed and expanded the program. . . and they can't claim ignorance - the Demographics of this Ponzi have been established since the 1950s and the Baby boom . The difference is that my generation - the first to pay in with full knowledge there will be no pay out, is being asked to pay for the prior one knowing we will get nothing. This system doesn't have 20 years left to it, nor do I see why I should give up ANOTHER 20 years of my pay for a generation so selfish they paid for their golden years with the slave labor of their children and grandchildren even if it did. Think about what you just said- I , in my mid forties, should work another 20 years, and NEVER get a dime. Social Security is evil, and ensuring a payout for the leeching parasites before the system fails at my expense doesn't sit well with me. If it should be ended because its an unjust scheme for robbing others, then it follows should be ended now. Someone has to get screwed - therefore let it be those who are guilty of voting for and supporting it and who have benefited , and not those who have always, always wanted it stopped. I have already sacrificed 20 years of my pay on this program's behalf knowing I will get nothing. It is wrong and cruel to ask me to pay for another 20 more with my being screwed being the foregone conclusion set in into law. Let their lives be disrupted. Let their own kids, family and church care for them if they deserve being cared for. Their generation at least had the opportunity to save for retirement. I can't - as ZIRP (a policy enacted largely so this ponzi can last another few years) steals every last penny I have saved for the last 20 years. And in that environment you want me to give up money I could be saving for my retirement- a retirement in which there IS no social security, so these people who squandered their opportunities can still get paid? My retirement plan is to live with my kids, because no other is possible. I see no reason what-so-ever that the people who put me in this situation shouldn't share the same fate.
Believe me, I can throw 10's of millions out into the street at this moment AND sleep well tonight, because the alternative is bankrupting the entire country, destroying the economy and turning EVERYONE into the street. But don't worry, I will never be given the chance to throw those seniors to the mercy and care of their own children and grandchildren that they so wrongfully and immorally indentured. No, they will be cast into the street by the reality of the system they created, and continually supported even while they knew the unfair burden of it would fall to future generations who could not pay and who would never collect. The inevitable failure of the Ponzi means their children and grandchildren will be in no state to care for them either.
Anyone who believes they can consume more than they contributed ( and the Baby boomers as a generation ARE the prime culprits here) deserves everything that is coming, and I won't lift a finger to help any of them. . and that includes my own Democratic, Liberal, Fascist parents. The time of reckoning is coming.
