Thread: Social Security - Take it or leave it?

Do you like our Social Security system? That's fine.

But what if you disagree with it? When it comes time to start collecting those SS checks, will you continue to be a participant? Or will you stick to your principles and tell Uncle Sam to keep it?

I'll partake because I paid into it.

There are many things I am forced to pay for that I don't think I should have to, and when I am offered the opportunity to recoup some of it, I do

Same here,
I'll take back what I can ,since no one asks me if I want in in the first place.

mo money, mo problems

Originally Posted by Slartibartfast

mo money, mo problems

I'd like to rid you of your problems for no extra charge (you won't have anything left anyway). I'll send you my paypal address

With all due respect I find this to be such a bizarre question. Makes me wonder if we're from the same planet. Thank God that FDR was elected in '32.

Could you imagine if it had been 'W' ? Wait a minute .... he would have bailed out the banks and Wall St. and the great depression might not have happened.

Originally Posted by hoglahoo

I'll partake because I paid into it.

There are many things I am forced to pay for that I don't think I should have to, and when I am offered the opportunity to recoup some of it, I do

You paid into it. So where is all that money you paid?

I believe it is gone. It was taken from you and given to someone else. If it's gone how can you recoup any of it?

Originally Posted by honedright

You paid into it. So where is all that money you paid?

I believe it is gone. It was taken from you and given to someone else. If it's gone how can you recoup any of it?

It isn't gone, it's still a number in their system. I get letters annually telling me how many numbers they've collected from me which subtract from my quality of life now. You don't think my employer actually sends them cash do you?

I'm taking it. I paid in, I'm going to take it out.

Big assumption is that the social security system is still afloat when I reach retirement age, which I highly doubt. It's amazing that Bernie Madoff goes to prison for 150 years for his ponzi scheme, which defrauded people of $64.8 billion, but the government holds a gun to our head to fund their ponzi scheme, which is defrauding the American People of Trillions, and if we don't fund it we go to prison. Create your own ponzi = prison. Don't fund the government's ponzi = prison.

Originally Posted by hoglahoo

It isn't gone, it's still a number in their system. I get letters annually telling me how many numbers they've collected from me which subtract from my quality of life now. You don't think my employer actually sends them cash do you?

Lee at 71 you're still working ?