Reply #24: Do you really think that you will control your own money? The government [View All]

[Malva Zebrina]

will still control your investments and you will be dependant upon them to choose for you.

YOU are paying for ME. I suspect that is what you do not like. For all you know, I could be a millionaire that goes to Florida in the Winter and summers in Maine, goes on three cruises a year, and invests in the stock market for extra money,Nevertheless, I paid in to the insurance for the generation preceding me and deserve the insurance, or I could be sick and damn, why should YOU pay for my health and well being,even though I pay a Medicare premium that has gone up at lest 50% since Bush took office and have no other income that would make it up .

From an e-mail I received today

Women have a lot at stake during the national debate on Social Security.

Women are less likely to have income from pensions then men and their pension benefits are, on average, less than half of men’s. As a result, women rely on Social Security for a larger part of their income in retirement then men do.

Women’s life expectancy is nearly 5 years longer than men, so women rely disproportionately on survivor’s benefits.

Without Social Security benefits, the Institute for Women’ Policy Research estimates that more than two-thirds of unmarried elderly women would live in poverty.

They and I am of the Greatest Generation. You know, the ones that built this country and the one which you enjoy right now and we paid in for the generation preceding us and never complained a damn bit, never even thought about it and never selfishly decided we could do better if we had control over OUR money, because what is the most repulsive to seniors is the possibility they will have to "burden" their children with supporting them in their old age.