There's one for you, nineteen for me

[cyrano]

So I'm feeling quite pissy, looking at my collected W2s and seeing $1500 going to 'my' Social Security account, knowing deep in my soul that I'm never going to see a penny of that because the people entrusted with taking care of that money will have pissed it all away before I'm even fifty.
Of course, I'm often feeling pissy so maybe that's nothing too surprising. Only getting dinged an extra $300 in taxes, so that could be a lot worse.
(Interviewed for that trainer/supervisor position, and re-writing my resume for an AA position that's opened up at the airport as well. Tammy at work wants me to apply to be a manager at the Coyote Point Yacht Club where she works.)

Comments

I don't mind

[melimus.livejournal.com]

Funny, the only part of Social Sec that bothers me is the fact that they lie about it being around for us. I don't mind paying it since it goes to the last generation of American producers (rather than American consumers). Elderly povery is heart breaking particularly for those who really worked thier whole lives.

As America greys I wonder, due to our political system, if we will destroy the future in order to pay for the past. IE, the powerful elderly voting block will extend Social Sec even when the money is all gone.

Re: I don't mind

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

I don't mind the able providing for those who are no longer. I mind the fact that, in theory, these folks have also been paying into this fund--if it had been managed with any kind of respect for its continuation then I'd like to think that it would be able to provide for those who are moving into the 'receiving' category of Social Security without bankrupting itself, or making the payments infitessimally small or moving the target age back to eighty.

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[carelessflight.livejournal.com]

... I was going to rant, but nevermind. It's now received wisdom that Social Security is about to go bankrupt, just like Gore said he invented the Internet and Bush is a uniter, not a divider. Doesn't matter if it's true, it's a good story. And it helps republicans to think it, so everyone's carefully encouraged to.

(It's a good bet that people who expect to get screwed over generally will. Someone will volunteer. If we all get convinced that SS is going to go bust soon, the government will volunteer to bust it.)

*Medicare* is going bust very soon -- much sooner, now. But SS is solvent for a good long time. But no one believes this, because it doesn't match the story.

Don't mind me. I'm just being pissy too.

Re: ...

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

If it helps, know that this is not a journal where I demand everyone agree with me. Further, I would love to be disillusioned of the notion that the stupid bastards we voted into office are being wasteful and irresponsible with the public trust--at least in this one instance.
I'm not saying it's impossible to save Social Security, I'm saying that I don't think people will choose to make the hard choices that I think will be required to save it. I'm also saying, here and now, that I'm willing to be convinced otherwise. (:

Re: I don't mind

[miss-friday.livejournal.com]

It is my understanding that Soc. Sec. is essentially the world's biggest legal pyramid scheme. And it was designed that way.