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Originally Posted by Bucco
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.
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Not only did it become part of MY planning but it became part of my company's planning for my retirement income. At age 65, my retirement income went down by the amount that SS was going to pay me at age 65.
The same with Medicare. When I turned 65, Medicare became my primary health insurance and my company provided health insurance became my secondary health insurance.
To me it is an entitlement only if you did not work and deposit large sums of money into SS and Medicare all of your working life and all you do is put your hand out and say "Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!"