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History Returns to Europe

Monique14 Wrote: Jun 03, 2010 5:57 PM
I acknowledge that your calculations regarding the Social Security benefits you and your wife have/will receive are probably correct, but I think you have missed the point others are tryig to make regarding the system (granted, some of them were not expressed clearly).

The problem with SS is not the amount you receive. It is the fact that the money you are receiving comes not from a bank account or investment that was created while you worked but rather from the funds I am currently paying into the system. The Social Security Trust Fund is a joke. It is not a fund but rather a stack of IOU's that Congress has written to itself. Furthermore, the Supreme Court has ruled that workers have to actual claim to the money that has been...
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