[JMintzer]

Originally Posted by Love2Swim

Agree. I would consider this a political post. Why is it even allowed here?

Did you report the post? If not, how do you expect the moderators to see it?

I'm sure they don't read every single post...

[jimjamuser]

Originally Posted by tuccillo

Yes, you are guessing as you have no clue. Tossing out arbitrary numbers, with no basis in fact, is a waste of time.

As I have said MANY, many times before, this IS an opinion forum, it is NOT a submission to a Scientific or Sociological paper. I wrote that I guess the US is 85% Capitalism and 15% Socialism (like SS and other programs). If someone can find a link that says something like the US is an 80 / 20 percent blend or a 90 / 10 percent blend......WE would ALL be happy and smarter to read it. I said, "I guess" which I will spell out means that it is ONLY an OPINION given to the BEST of my knowledge and experience (living in America). If it is believed that everything that I ever write is worthless then if that is true....it ALL should be disregarded.
.......As I understand a local forum, it IS like a soapbox for freedom of speech and INDIVIDUAL opinion to be REGARDED OR disregarded as one chooses !

[tuccillo]

I think that we have already established that.

Originally Posted by jimjamuser

As I have said MANY, many times before, this IS an opinion forum, it is NOT a submission to a Scientific or Sociological paper. I wrote that I guess the US is 85% Capitalism and 15% Socialism (like SS and other programs). If someone can find a link that says something like the US is an 80 / 20 percent blend or a 90 / 10 percent blend......WE would ALL be happy and smarter to read it. I said, "I guess" which I will spell out means that it is ONLY an OPINION given to the BEST of my knowledge and experience (living in America). If it is believed that everything that I ever write is worthless then if that is true....it ALL should be disregarded.
.......As I understand a local forum, it IS like a soapbox for freedom of speech and INDIVIDUAL opinion to be REGARDED OR disregarded as one chooses !

[JMintzer]

Originally Posted by tuccillo

I think that we have already established that.

[JMintzer]

Originally Posted by jimjamuser

As I have said MANY, many times before, this IS an opinion forum, it is NOT a submission to a Scientific or Sociological paper. I wrote that I guess the US is 85% Capitalism and 15% Socialism (like SS and other programs). If someone can find a link that says something like the US is an 80 / 20 percent blend or a 90 / 10 percent blend......WE would ALL be happy and smarter to read it. I said, "I guess" which I will spell out means that it is ONLY an OPINION given to the BEST of my knowledge and experience (living in America). If it is believed that everything that I ever write is worthless then if that is true....it ALL should be disregarded.
.......As I understand a local forum, it IS like a soapbox for freedom of speech and INDIVIDUAL opinion to be REGARDED OR disregarded as one chooses !

Opinions should be based in SOME sort of reality...

Otherwise you're just talking out of your @**

[nn0wheremann]

Originally Posted by chrissy2231

The Social Security check is now (or soon will be) referred to as a "Federal Benefit Payment?" I'll be part of the one percent to forward this. I am forwarding it because it touches a nerve in me, and I hope it will in you. Please keep passing it on until everyone in our country has read it.
The government is now referring to our Social Security checks as a "Federal Benefit Payment." This isn't a benefit. It is our money paid out of our earned income! Not only did we all contribute to Social Security, but our employers did too. It totaled 15% of our income before taxes.
If you averaged $30K per year over your working life, that's close to $180,000 invested in Social Security.
If you calculate the future value of your monthly investment in social security ($375/month, including both you and your employers' contributions) at a meager 1% interest rate compounded monthly, after 40 years of working you'd have more than $1.3+ million dollars saved!
This is your personal investment. Upon retirement, if you took out only 3% per year, you'd receive $39,318 per year, or $3,277 per month.
That's almost three times more than today's average Social Security benefit of $1,230 per month, according to the Social Security Administration. (Google it – it’s a fact).
And your retirement fund would last more than 33 years (until you're 98 if you retire at age 65)! I can only imagine how much better most average-income people could live in retirement if our government had just invested our money in low-risk interest-earning accounts.
Instead, the folks in Washington pulled off a bigger "Ponzi scheme" than Bernie Madoff ever did. They took our money and used it elsewhere. They forgot (oh yes, they knew) that it was OUR money they were taking. They didn't have a referendum to ask us if we wanted to lend the money to them. And they didn't pay interest on the debt they assumed. And recently they've told us that the money won't support us for very much longer.
But is it our fault they misused our investments? And now, to add insult to injury, they're calling it a "benefit", as if we never worked to earn every penny of it.
Just because they borrowed the money doesn't mean that our investments were a charity!
Let's take a stand. We have earned our right to Social Security and Medicare. Demand that our legislators bring some sense into our government.
Find a way to keep Social Security and Medicare going for the sake of that 92% of our population who need it.
Then call it what it is: Our Earned Retirement Income.
99% of people won't SHARE this. Will you?
This Blew My Mind

https://scontent-mia3-2.xx.fbcdn.net...5Q&oe=640331E0

Social Security payments under Title II of The Act are payments of benefits for insurance against the loss of earnings due to retirement, death, or disability. As such they are benefit payments.

[Bay Kid]

Originally Posted by JMintzer

Opinions should be based in SOME sort of reality...

Otherwise you're just talking out of your @**

Just like the media in America.