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Originally Posted by jimhoward
SSI sends checks to the disabled, to spouses of retired wage earners and to minor children of retired wage earners. And probably other groups that I don't know about. It also sends checks that are higher relative to contributions to low wage earners and lower to high wage earners.
But I think everybody knows that. Its not a return of withholding.
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Surprisingly, not everybody does know that. The idea of Social Security was/is to provide a safety net for our nation's poorest and most needy citizens. If you are fortunate enough to have tons of money, you don't need SS money and may not get any. But if, for whatever reason, you have little or no other source of income, or have special needs, SS can make the difference between survival or being thrown in the street. Seems very Christian spirited of our government to me.
But, in the past, should the markets fail and hundreds of thousands loose everything they own, jobs, savings, investments, property, etc, (great depression) choose suicide, crime, prostitution, gangs.
One of the biggest surprises to me is how many folks that actually need or even rely on SS have been fooled into voting against their own best interests and their Christian principles. That's the way it looks to me.