So, you're in favor of socialism as long as you personally benefit?


Bill McKee wrote:
I am going to take the money.

So your principles are for sale to the high bidder? Please tell me you
don't consider yourself "conservative."


... But for the over $160k that I have paid in
for 42 years, I could have got a bigger payout.

Sure.

... And the younger people, in
their 20's to 40's are going to pay a whole lot more in than I did.

That depends.


... I paid
in the max of $330 / year and the company matched it for some of those
years.


And your point is?

Oh wait, I know... you're PO'd because it's the gummint. Somebody lied
and told you that Social Security was an investment program, then lied
again and told you that you could get insurance cheaper.

It didn't ever occur to you that Social Security shouldn't be your main
retirement plan, that it is neither an investment program nor insurance,
and yet you try to make pinheaded comparisons to "prove" that Social
Security is somehow bad.

No wonder the country is in such a mess, with politics based on such
stupidity.

DSK