The government can cancel the whole program tomorrow. They can stop paying benefits to retirees, but continue withholding taxes from workers. They can do whatever they want because we elected them. That's what due process means.
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In a little-noticed decision, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Congress and the president could cut off your Social Security benefits any time they please.
The first victim was a man named Ephram Nestor.
Nestor paid Social Security taxes for 19 years and was already receiving benefits when the government stopped paying him. As you might imagine, Nestor was outraged and appealed all the way to the Supreme Court. He argued that, having paid all those taxes, the government owed him "his" Social Security benefits.
Nestor lost. So will you and me, if we live long enough.
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I paid in for 48 years, was receiving benefits, and now they have diverted those benefits and I receive nothing.
ReplyDeleteThere is no doubt that what we were promised was as false as any politician's campaign promises.
they have diverted those benefits and I receive nothing.
DeleteHow/when did that happen?
Most people would see that as either fraud or outright theft then.
ReplyDeleteIf they take money without any service or benefit in return what else would you call it?
Most (sane) people would see that as either fraud or outright theft then.
ReplyDeletePrecisely.
Please don't advertise this around the whitehouse, only poor minorities will receive it if Dear Leader finds this out, he has a pen and a phone..........
ReplyDeleteDern, I forgot. :)
DeleteSocialist Insecurity has never been anything more than the world's biggest Ponzi scheme. Unfortunately a lot of people will wind up holding an empty sack.
ReplyDeleteEvidently a Ponzi scheme that is legal......? I guess if you get away with anything, it is so.
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