Quote from Roland Of Gilead
I am making the jump because you guys do not seem to care about the money you have paid into SS, which is not a welfare program, thus I assumed you had so much cash it really didn't matter.
I feel the same way about my future SS payment that someone with a pension might feel if there was talk about cutting it drastically. The most you ever hear about with pensions is maybe a limit on benefits for future hires and even that is usually fought tooth and nail. I am not going to give up on getting my fair share so easily as to just say "I am not counting on SS".
Got it. Thanks for responding. So you don't take it for granted that your SS monies will
all be there but you are not going to be voting for politicians who are trying to take it away (my interpretation of what you are saying). Fair enough.
Tone is not always easy to guess at correctly online but, yeah, I guess my attitude is, shall we say, less feisty than yours.
Also I agree that it is not a handout but I do think that substantial changes (cuts) will be phased in over time just because SS is not sustainable as currently configured. Just basing that claim on all the charts I see on our debt levels.