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Share your fears about Social Security
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Share your fears about Social Security
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1) In the article, Social Security Fears , many Social Security myths are addressed. What concerns you the most about Social Security?
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Re: Share your fears about Social Security
posted at November 9, 2011 12:30 AM EST
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"The advance of liberalism... [encourages] the hope that the human mind will some day get back to the freedom it enjoyed two thousand years ago." --Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, 1821. ME 15:308 |
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Re: Share your fears about Social Security
posted at November 9, 2011 12:33 AM EST
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"The advance of liberalism... [encourages] the hope that the human mind will some day get back to the freedom it enjoyed two thousand years ago." --Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, 1821. ME 15:308 |
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Re: Share your fears about Social Security
posted at November 9, 2011 12:42 AM EST
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"If there be a God and He is just, His day will come. He will never abandon the whole race of man to be eaten up by the leviathans and mammoths of a day." --Thomas Jefferson to Lafayette, 1811. |
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Re: Share your fears about Social Security
posted at November 13, 2011 4:52 PM EST
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I read an article that medicare premiums will go up quite a bit for 2012 and to right around $245.00 by 2013 is this true? How do we find out what is going to be taken from our SS checks now? How can we, the retired, protect ourselves? Who can answer and who will? |
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Re: Share your fears about Social Security
posted at November 15, 2011 3:36 PM EST
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In Response to Re: Share your fears about Social Security: Well, I'm on SSDI, can't work at all, and my monthly check has just been reduced by 400.00. This is due to a new WEP process that figures your monthly payments differently than before - so I'm already freaked out - I have bills to pay and the amount I'm getting will put me in the hole - can't even afford to rejoin AARP this year......any ideas?? Posted by dougbarnes9 Hi dougbarnes9, Did you know that AARP currently has a hardship membership offer? You can learn more about it on the AARP Job Hunting site.
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Re: Share your fears about Social Security
posted at November 15, 2011 8:37 PM EST
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In the latest AARP Bulletin, the editor, Jim Toedtman, asserts that the SS "administrative costs are practically nothing." Given the '08 admin budget was $9.6 Billion http://www.ssa.gov/budget/2008bud.pdf and SSA employs approximately 62,000 people http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Security_Administration, I find $154,839 per worker is hardly nothing. This statement and most of AARP's alleged myths are unadulterated BS. |
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Re: Share your fears about Social Security
posted at November 16, 2011 11:50 PM EST
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I retired at 62and obtained SSI. I then was determined to be disabled and now obtaining SSDI. I was on a Medicaid program after I retired, due to a MVA, and chronic illness of 54 yrs. After SSDI was proclaimed I am now unable to continue with Medicaid due to money in an IRA: they call it resources, which I am not touching until 65. My husband is unemployed at present, so I have no health coverage at all. What Am I able to do until he goes back to work? Would appreciate any helpful hints, thank-you! I live in New Mexico. |
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Re: Share your fears about Social Security
posted at November 18, 2011 1:57 PM EST
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I have been paying into Social Security since I was 16, and that is nearly 40 years now. I am threatened and frightened by the "SuperCommittee's" charge to reduce the defecit through de-funding Social Security and Medicare. I am especially concerned when the 55 - year cut-off is thrown about as a possibility. I have worked continuously in the US my entire life in government and non-profit agencies for nearly all of that time. How could my country turn their back on me? My husband is retired from the US Army and wonders the same. Please continue to advocate for all of us who are over 50, and not just make a cut-off at age 55. Thank you. |
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Re: Share your fears about Social Security
posted at November 22, 2011 12:36 PM EST
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The reason why this is being called a Ponzi scheme is because the Government under President Johnson raided the coiffers of the Social Security. They took al the money and spent it. Now people that are working today are paying for people that are currently on SS. Sooner or later the money runs out, as more and more people are living longer and they are giving the SS benifits to illeagal aliens and all the others that scheme their way to being on the dole. If I had every penny I put into SS in my life time and was able to invest it my way (even just with interest bearing CD's) I would be on easy street today. I have had no cost of living increase for 3 years in my SS. and in 2012 we are finally getting it. That is because of a major increase in Part B and in the Drug program. There also have been smaller increases over the past 3 years. By the time it all shakes out, we should be in the same state we were 3 years ago. That is nothing but pure Government BS under this President. It is time to get Obama out of this office |
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Re: Share your fears about Social Security
posted at November 22, 2011 7:37 PM EST
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Personally I very concern about my children and grandchildren that Social Security might not be around for them and this my fear and I pray that this don't happen at all.. marvinjr! In Response to Share your fears about Social Security: 1) In the article, Social Security Fears , many Social Security myths are addressed. What concerns you the most about Social Security? Posted by AARPMiller |
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