From the article: How Does Social Security Affect You?
Social security is set up to help people when they reach retirement age. Do you feel like the social security system will still be in place when you retire? Are you planning to have additional funds to supplement your social security? Share Your Opinion
Sure it will
- We will have a mass starvation in this country if social security is not arround. Do you have any idea how many people who have saved nothing would be homeless and without if not for SS? If there is no SS the goverment will have a much bigger issue on their hands. They will continue to print money for SS recepients just like they have these other sorry bastards who won't work.
- —Guest terry
The plight of the working man.
- I feel as though the US government has taken my money and spent it unwisely and without my consent. While I think that there will be something there for me, I do not feel it will be a fair reckoning with what I have put in or what they quote me now for my retirement. I have planned my own retirement funding with the assumption that around 50% of what the Gov has promised will be there. That, of course, has meant I never had the RV or the boat or the summer house the politicians bought for themselves. They lived the American dream and I bought it for them. The plight of the working man.
- —Guest Sam Duffy
Can we rely on S.S. to be there?
- Not any more. Our elected reps. in D.C. moved S.S. monies out of its original fund and into the general fund where they could pilfer and loot it for things other than it was intended for. Then they sent our tax base overseas along with our jobs, that funded Social Security, when they created NAFTA and GATT. But all the while they create and protect their own golden umbrellas at our expense. They ruined the economy of the country and now want to try to repair it on the backs of the senior citizens of America. AND, if your wish is to see Social Security and Medicare disappear completely, vote republican!!
- —Guest John
Social Security Fairness
- I have paid into Social Security all my life. I am getting ready to retire. But I am being told that there is not enough money. What happened to all our money. We baby boomers paid our way. The government took our money for other things and tells me it is an entitlement. Wrong. Bring back our jobs from foreign countries, keep the governments fingers out of it and you will find that we would have enough money for us baby boomers and you young people coming up. I paid my share. Why am I not entitled to it?
- —Guest Ruth
Does It Matter?
- I try not to worry about it. I'm saving for my retirement and planning like I won't have it, and I'll be happy if I do. Either way I don't think it is a good idea to look to the government to take care of me in my old age. I want to be comfortable when I retire, which is hard to do on just Social Security.
- —Guest Wendy
Of Course It Will Be
- I think it will still be there. The benefits may not be as high, and you shouldn't look at it as your only source of funding, but the government will make sure that it stays there.
- —Guest Tony
The System's Broken
- Honestly I think it's going to collapse on itself in the next few years. I don't think it's fair that I have to contribute to something that won't be around when I retire.
- —Guest Marsha
