What does it tell you about the Election that Obama, Romney, Ryan support Free Trade & cutting Social Security?

Sad indeed. But although most people see it as an investment, Social Security is simply a tax. The benefits are not guaranteed, insured or forecast.

Just like you, I've paid into Social Security for decades, but I ain't vested...and neither are you or anyone else. Political expediency and economic reality government how the government collects and spends it's money, and you can bet your social security check, that those benefits are at risk. It really is a Ponzi scheme, in which recipients are paid by the receipts from new players.

As the number of new players dwindle and the recipients grow, then the scam falls aparts. Responsible economists and Republican Legislators have been pointing this out for decades and now... it's finally time for the SXXXX to hit the fan. Next election, think carefully about which party gets your vote...

Here's the dictionaries definition of "entitlement" - A right to benefits specified; especially by law or contract. A government program providing benefits to members of a specified group; also funds supporting or distributed by such a program. A belief that one is deserving of entitlement to certain privileges.

Examples: My entitlement to a refund. Entitlement e.g. medical aid for the elderly and poor If Social Security doesn't meet the definition of an "entitlement" program, I don't know what does. If people pay into the program long enough they will, by law, become "entitled" to a monthly benefit and Medicare.

Those people who are scaring Americans by making them believe that Social Security won't be there for them should be shot. They are acting irresponsibly. Social Security is solvent and will continue to be so long after we are gone.

Congress will continue to reduce benefits, I"m sure, and whether they like it or not they will eventually raise the FICA tax limits and probably the rate of the tax. And once the baby boomers are dead, there will probably be increases in the benefit amounts because there will be a healthy ratio of those paying into the program vs those receiving again. And, by the way, EVERY administration, beginning with Roosevelt, refers to Social Security as an entitlement program.

Your failure to see it as an entitlement program makes you appear to be stupid. You may not like the program but it doesn't change the entitlement nature of the program.

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