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Originally Posted by buggyone
Bucco,
Can you honestly tell me that Social Security is not a good thing? Can you honestly tell me you believe that all or most all Americans would have saved a good portion of their monthly paycheck and would have enough money saved to carry them comfortably from retirement until death? Social security is a safety net. Some people live entirely on it in retirement, though.
Social Security also provides for living expenses for widows and children.
What would you propose for those that did not do so? Would you be content to see them penniless and homeless? No, you would not as that would be inhumane and callous.
You should take me on my invite to join RichieLion and a few others at the watering hole for light discussion and ice-cold Yeunglings.
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All I can HONESTLY say is...I dont know how it would be without it.
I was given no choice and thus as I aged it became part of my planning and I would assume those who you have attacked and assailed on here because they collect SS would have done the same.
When a president proposed a discussion on choice of how this is done, he was ridiculed and laughed at, so I cannot answer your question as it was part of what the government took and promised in return. No choice came my way on it and it was part of my retirement planning.
Why you find it necessary to attack folks on this issue as if they had a choice is beyond me. I am betting most are in the same boat as me...nobody asked..government
mandated it..thus I used it in my planning.