Report: Social Security Disability Benefits to Jump 71 Percent Over Next 10 Years
- Posted on July 17, 2012 at 12:41pm by
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A new report from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) shows Social Security Disability Insurance benefits will increase 70 percent over the next ten years, leading Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) to warn that the disability trust fund will go bankrupt in four.
“[This] report from the Congressional Budget Office reveals a dramatic increase in applications and awards for Social Security disability, placing the disability trust fund on a fast-track to insolvency in just four years,” said Sen. Sessions, the ranking Republican on the Senate Budget Committee.
The disability insurance program, as the Washington Examiner’s Joel Gehrke notes, paid out $119 billion to 8.3 million workers in fiscal year 2011, accounting for approximately 18 percent of all Social Security spending.
$119 billion, folks.
“The department expects that number to jump to $204 billion — an increase of 71 percent, approximately — as the number of disabled workers and dependents receiving money increases to 12.3 million by 2022,” Gehrke adds.
Republicans on the budget committee also point out that more disability claims have been created in the last three months than jobs.
“It is clear there is a great need to distinguish between proper and improper disability claims, and to better incentivize and find acceptable work for those who are able,” said Sen. Sessions. “Today only 1 percent of Social Security disability recipients ever return to work.”
The expansion of the disability trust find has also driven up Medicare expenses due to the fact that all disability applicants automatically receive Medicare benefits after two years.
“In 2011, the disability trust fund caused an additional $80 billion in Medicare spending,” writes Gehrke.
Here’s an infographic from the CBO that helps makes sense of it all:
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Meyvn
Posted on July 17, 2012 at 5:51pmThis is absolutely pathetic.
Report Post »TexasHide
Posted on July 17, 2012 at 5:26pmThe feds need to dump the social security idea. It will make people personally responsible for their own money and future.
Report Post »team1blazer
Posted on July 17, 2012 at 5:02pmSocial (in)security is a masterful ponzi scheme dreamed up and instituted by liberal politicians; it is mandantory, it is unaccountable and it is government backed. We have been so screwed by ALL politicians. When the money runs out, there will be war….and the politicians will be on their yachts.
Report Post »ishtar
Posted on July 17, 2012 at 4:25pmMy sister in law is on that her hubby went to an attorney ang got it for her ..the poor thing can‘t work shes dependent on drugs can’t think but she can go to bingo and count those numbers i would like to know is there any one i can report her to this crap isn’t right
Report Post »jaylew
Posted on July 17, 2012 at 4:51pmWhy would you rat out your own brothers family? You and your other family members should be doing this kind of repair and problem resolution. Sit down and talk to her and your brother…tell them why you think what they are doing is distressing and disrespecting your entire family.
Report Post »We are not talking about some hideous crime like pedophilia or murder or anything close to any of that.
If you “turn in” your own family….then you have simply agreed to let the government get involved in yet another problem. Families apparently have become SO dysfunctional and risk averse that just look at what you typed in the post above. You want the government to “fix” your sister in law…and somehow you have forgotten that the entire welfare and public assistance “business” unit of the government(s) need to have as many welfare recipients as possible in order for their own government offices to flourish and grow. So in the end…your brother and sister in law will probably win the case you brought against them….they’ll still get benefits…the family will be damaged and hurt because of you ratting them out….and in the end nothing good at all happens. It is up to you and your other family members to fix this problem….start a business…get her involved in it….there are many good options and things that can come out of having your family fix it’s own family problems….the number one good thing is that you did NOT rely on the government to do it for you.
loriann12
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 2:28pmSome people don’t learn from you telling them anything, and they definitely don’t learn by you being the government check. I have a sister-in-law (who thank goodness isn’t smart enough to get on disability). We (as a family) tried for years to get her and her husband on their own feet. He gets a job, loses it in a couple months. She has a degree as a assistant vet but doesn’t actually WANT to work. They live off his grandma. If it were me, I’d throw them out and let them sink or swim. But, like I said, at least they aren’t on welfare. I know a lady, and I’ve said this numerous times, who is on disability (and works every year at VBS in the kitchen for a week with over 200 kids) and all 4 of her children have Blackberries, including her.
Report Post »woodrowt
Posted on August 5, 2012 at 8:04amTeam1blazer uses every cliche he has read over the past 2 weeks. Ponzi scheme of course was once called a pyramid scheme; but as many “wannabe Journalist and humorist” like to pretend to appear at least in the 90-100 IQ range, they overuse the word (s). I, personally would like to see children removed from the beneficiary roles, police the rules you currently have in place for fraud and abuse. this would assist in Medicaid, Medicare, SS, SS disability. They are all abused by pharmacies, doctors, hospitals, clinics, and mainly the beneficaries
Report Post »3monkeysmomma
Posted on July 17, 2012 at 4:11pmI have people in my own family who, despite serious and chronic maladies, worked hard and supported themselves for years (one owned a business that employed 67 other people in 2008) , but when the roof fell in and they lost their businesses or couldn’t find work, they applied for SS just to survive.
Can any of us blame them? SS is poorly managed, no doubt, but people who wouldn’t otherwise are applying for the benefits out of sheer desperation.
Report Post »Ragnars Repos
Posted on July 17, 2012 at 4:11pmEverybody loves Social(ist) Security, especially conservatives.
Hey, conservatives! Socialism doesn’t work. I guess the ‘defenders of the constitution’ didn’t get the memo.
End Social(ist) Security! It only feeds the leftist beast that is consuming this country. Not to mention that IT WILL NEVER AGAIN BE SOLVENT, and that‘s the whole idea behind it and all of the ’social safety net‘ programs and power grabs that conservatives just can’t get enough of.
Socialism doesn’t work, conservatives.
Report Post »Lothmar
Posted on July 17, 2012 at 3:54pmBROKEN ARROW! I repeat, Broken arrow!
Report Post »jaylew
Posted on July 17, 2012 at 4:21pmMy neighbor has been on SSD nearly her entire life. She could work if she wanted to but chooses rather to revolve her entire existence around “her benefits”. She doesn’t even try to “get well” and re-enter the workforce doing something gainful. She is a 50 year old human mammal who has permanently attached her lips to the Federal Governments teat…..yes I understand that there are folks who are simply too messed up to work anywhere…I understand all of that. I also know full well that there are perhaps millions of Americans who have decided to be just like my neighbor…..and so politically any one of any stripe that would put forth a campaign agenda to re-think this SSD program is committing a form of political suicide. The only way to end this entire SSD mess…..is to simply let it die from starvation. Let the program become insolvent and die. As harsh as that sounds…there is no viable political way to “make it better”…..because those politicians will be ousted from office or never elected in the first place. For the love of Pete….we can’t even get seniors who claim to be conservative and who DO have other income streams to give up one single cent of their own Social Security Benefits. The only way to cure the entire Social Security System is to let it die on the vine. Even the most pernicious weeds in the garden will die from starvation. Harsh? Yes. Any other way? Nope…there is no other way to stop this mess…other than simply letting it go broke.
Report Post »TEARS FOR AMERICA
Posted on July 17, 2012 at 3:06pmThere are so many on the dole that are committing fraud against taxpayers that it is unbelievable- the lengths people will go to to steal from the future of their own children and grandchildren is appalling…remember the Jews that ate their own children because they were so hungry? OMG…this generation is no different.
Report Post »jungle J
Posted on July 17, 2012 at 3:06pmyou can assume that the majority on ssd will be the fakers and degenerates put down by dope and std’s…i am beginning to understand saddam hussiens motivation….the trash seem to rise to the top in a progressively controlled society.
Report Post »Mike Benton
Posted on July 17, 2012 at 3:02pmAround here they call it “The happy Check”. It is rumored there is a shrink who gives out easy diagnosis of “bi-polar disorder”. I wish I met him before I spend me entire adult life working while suffering with that disorder!
Report Post »thebigquad
Posted on July 17, 2012 at 2:41pmIn the last few years, the following diagnoses now qualify you for SS benefits: Epilepsy, Diabetes, Being SHY, etc. Politicians were well aware people would turn to SS when their unemployment benefits ran out. Sickening, absolutely sickening. TERM LIMITS!!
Report Post »3monkeysmomma
Posted on July 17, 2012 at 4:14pmMy cousin has epilepsy and was turned down…and she has frequent seizures and can’t drive or be left alone.
Report Post »jaylew
Posted on July 17, 2012 at 5:03pmMy youngest adult son has had Epilepsy nearly all of his life and he is a hard working delightful happy person with a 4 year BA degree in youth ministry who works at a facility that is the home of the areas most mentally and physcially challenged kids. Some of his clients eat their own feces…throw it everywhere….and that is only a smidgeon of some of their problems and behaviors….lifelong conditions that most people including hard core nurses and doctors struggle in dealing with and addressing. I bring this up to juxtapose and support your comment on what conditions now qualify for SSD…..there are thousands of such group home and care facilities in the United States….there are jobs available at these places. Maybe..just maybe…many of these applicants for SSD should be compelled to work in one of these places for a month in order to qualify for SSD benefits….and maybe that might help get a few SSD applicants minds right when it comes to who is REALLY disabled and who is…..not so much.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on July 17, 2012 at 2:16pmAnd so Obama continues his destruction of the nation.
Report Post »socialism.rocks
Posted on July 17, 2012 at 2:09pmabsolute myth the social security trust fund holds three trillion dollars in us bonds.. they just want to cut taxes on the wealthy– they want to do tranference of the social security fund to the ultra wealthy
Report Post »The_Cabrito_Goat
Posted on July 17, 2012 at 2:34pmYour source?
Report Post »hauschild
Posted on July 17, 2012 at 3:05pmEven if true, I would much rather allow people that worked for a living keep their money as opposed to complete and utter filth getting something for nothing.
This is a deeply saddening story but the good news is the gravy train is about to expire. Then what will all these “fat”, er, “disabled” people do? Cry and whine and bellyache and I’ll be right there laughing my ass off. Freakin’ losers.
Report Post »jaylew
Posted on July 17, 2012 at 4:40pmHolding three trillion dollars in United States Bonds……is not exactly the best position to be in right now. I know you are passionate about your unique perspective of “all good things are rooted in socialism” theory….and I respect that. But holding a 3 trillion position backed up only by US Bonds…..can become a position of complete worthlessness very rapidly once those bonds turn into nothing but toilet paper. The moment the gold those bonds were once pledged against no longer was the standard….a US Bond simply became an IOU with “the full faith and credit of the US Government”……and that my friend is what the problem is. The conversation really has nothing to with polemics or politics or social theory. This is pure economics….and the United States is on the edge of the money cliff. The American Social Security System as we know it…is dying a slow painful but rapidly escalating death…and there is nothing proposed or dreamed or possibly ever contemplated from either side of the political or social theory aisle can do to save it. The Social Security System is broke….and in this context broke has 2 meanings. Insolvent and broken.
Report Post »KURT1010
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 7:05amNut !
Report Post »TROLLMONGER
Posted on July 17, 2012 at 2:02pmAll of the old and irrelevent baby boomers (most of whom are Beckbots) are starting to suck my tax money away.
Report Post »jungle J
Posted on July 17, 2012 at 3:02pmit is your generation that pretend autism and retardation to get their children ssd so you can buy more dope….the sane know your game….
Report Post »TheBurningTruth
Posted on July 17, 2012 at 3:36pmFrom the mouth of babes…
Most of the retiring baby-boomers WORKED and PAID taxes (both income and payroll) for those benefits. In fact, one couldn’t even “opt out” if they wanted too as the govt literally held a gun to their head in the form of arrest and financial ruin. The politicians made the rules and guaranteed Social Insecurity (both retirement income and disability).
Many of us baby-boomers argued against the big socialistic plans, even offered to forego any benefits and voluntarily kiss off the money we paid in to get out from under the system. OH NO! YOU CAN’T DO THAT said the Liberal politicians that were busy skimming the tax revenue for their own programs.
So, the system of stealing from one‘s children began with PROGRESSIVE LIBERAL politicians that can’t let a pot of saved money sit; rather they simply MUST spend it.
After working for most of our lives, we’re here to collect on the “promise” that we were FORCED to accept. You don’t like it, then DON’T vote Progressive Liberals into office. They have no idea of financial reality. And if you voted for President Marxist last time, STFU and pay your taxes… for the rest of your life.
Report Post »Individualism
Posted on July 17, 2012 at 8:17pmtrue that, there the leeching generation that had it all and destroyed the future for the next generation and they maybe punished for it soon.
Report Post »girlnurse
Posted on July 17, 2012 at 1:40pmSS disability going to be broke in 4 years?? Isn’t that what they want??
The government is hell bent on collapsing this economy and theyre doing a good job.
Why else would they have “public service announcements” advertising SS????
On the one hand they spend millions to revamp the website and public service announcements giving Patty Duke and many others expensive contracts and then they turn around and harp continuosly about how the system is broke!! Typical government schizophrenia!!! I would expect nothing less.
Besides: They need as many over 50 folks to go out—there isn’t even enough jobs for the younger adults who are trying to raise a family….thats the other part they don’t talk about!!!
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on July 17, 2012 at 1:29pmAnother scam…..I know 3 people on disability, all of them able bodied……talk about a scam…..I bet that program has an 80% fraud level…..FRAUD,LAZINESS, FOODSTAMPS…….THE NEW AMERICAN DREAM……
Report Post »socialism.rocks
Posted on July 17, 2012 at 2:10pmand you’ve not reported them to social security —- yeah right you dont know anyone and if you did you would be reported them…or you are aiding them in defrauding government
Report Post »The_Cabrito_Goat
Posted on July 17, 2012 at 2:34pmSell out his friends? Would you sell out your cleaning lady if she was in the country illegally? No, because it’s wrong to betray someone that way.
Report Post »Lloyd Drako
Posted on July 17, 2012 at 2:39pm@Detroit Paperboy: Social Security Disability per se is not a scam, it’s a system created without much forethought. Rather as Social Security was instituted back in the ’30s, when few people lived past 65, SSDI was created back in the ’90s, when times were good. Now, in the absence of jobs and in view of state cutbacks, desperate people will grasp at it, and it’s the sort of thing that lends itself easily to scams. It’s galling. Even if very few who are on it live high on the hog, their numbers are multiplying, and it‘s taxpayers’ money they’re gobbling up.
Report Post »jaylew
Posted on July 17, 2012 at 5:23pmYeah Detroit….we should all be “reporting” these people to the very government that created the mess in the first place…..in fact SOCIALISMROCKS advice to you sounds as if it were being uttered by a staff sergeant in Hitlers SS. “Report” someone? Man I have to tell you that sounds almost creepy to me….
Just what we need…an entire nation of people that “report” on each other….“My neighbors lawn is too high” “Those black kids on the corner are listening to loud RAP music” “The guy two streets over has a hole in his muffler” “My son’s car inspection sticker has expired“ ”A woman in the grocery bought 58 dollars worth of crab legs with her food stamps” (Oh wait that’s not a reportable crime) “I saw Tina in the casino playing slot machines and her welfare card and food stamp card fell out on the floor” (Oh wait…that’s not a reportable crime either)
You see the pattern here? “Report Everyone”……that is exactly what socialism and communism employ as techniques to make all the sheep in the herd feel like they actually did something that mattered today….meanwhile all the upper echelon party and board members…the big wig comrades….are mostly overweight cigar smoking Boss Hogs who haven’t done a good days work in decades.
I’m sorry SOCIALISMROCKS…your comment to Detroit was NOT one of your best…and it leaves a sour creepy feeling in the palate.
Report Post »TheLeftMadeMeRight
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 10:47amFirst of all for all the SS arm chair generals on this board; You have to work and pay into the system for a minimum of ten years to claim SSDI benefits. This is that little SSDI deduction on your paycheck (assuming you know what a paycheck is)
When you are unable to work a doctor’s note does not get you disability payments. You will spend the next three years of your life between government hired doctors, psychiatrists, social workers, your doctors, and lawyers and a crap load of discouraging paperwork before you meet the DOJ (disability judge). By then you will have exhausted any savings you had (assuming you had any).
Yes of course there are those abusing the system, but there are also those that are legitimately disabled, with families that are at the end of their rope(s). There is a huge difference between welfare payments and food stamps and the Social Security Disability Insurance program. And statistics say one in four American workers will have a disabling injury during their work lives, so the odds are pretty good you may find yourself in the same boat. (if you actually work that is)
Report Post »jaylew
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 11:03pm@THELEFTMADEMERIGHT …respectfully the look back period in order to be considered eligible for SSDI is indeed 10 years….but depending on your age at the time of the disability you may only have to have worked a year and a half (in younger peoples cases) or only 5 years if you are over age 31. That means a person 35 years of age would only need to have worked a total of 5 years in the last 10 years. The 10 year aspect you may be confused with is for folks 60 and over…and in that portion of the eligibility test that simply means they have to have worked a total of 10 years during their entire lifetime while paying into social security. It is possible for a 27 year old person to be eligible for SSDI after only working 3 years since they became 21. That is a far cry from 10 years of work…and it is as I posited before many many times….just another portion of the Ponzi scheme that is the Social Security System in this country. As harsh as I seem to be…..understanding as I do and admitting here that yes we have folks who are genuinely disable and hurting…..the quicker this current system goes completely broke and belly up….the quicker a replacement and alternative system can be put in place. No politician or political party has the fortitude or the ability to actually get this done….the citizenry doesn’t possess the ability to accept this harsh reality either…it is simply going to have to wither and die on the vine. Sad…but true.
Report Post »EqualJustice
Posted on July 17, 2012 at 1:29pmI will ask this question AGAIN for the umpteenth time.. WHY IS NO ONE INVESTIGATING JUDGES WHO APPROVE DISABILITY CLAIMS 100% OF THE TIME? There are so many and this even after the claims have been turned down many times prior. Something VERY wrong with that picture. Are there NO investigative journalists left in this country or maybe politicians who care about all this waste and corruption?
Report Post »jaylew
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 11:14pmI hear you man…..but at this point it doesn’t matter any longer….even if every applicant was rejected and denied by every SSA administrative judge…..the system is still going to collapse. It is similar to the Democrats complete inability to accept the following premise: The Dems want the rich to pay more income taxes…..you could tax every single so-called rich person at the 100 percent rate…in other words take their entire income…every red cent…and that STILL would not bail this country out of this fiscal mess…..it still would not cover the debt and the interest on the debt. Why Democrats can’t fess up and admit that to be the case is nearly stupefying. In fact all their banter and blather about the rich paying their fair share is in reality pure hogwash….to create a division…a class envy and warfare strategy simply so they can get re-elected once again. They will promulgate absolute financial fantasies and lies….NOT to help the people they claim they are trying to help….but they do it simply to get re-elected. Which makes anyone who campaigns in this fashion…and anyone who repeats the drivel as if it were the truth…it makes them all prostitutes of the worst sort. Soul Sucking Vampires and Ghouls….and therefore abusers of the less informed and less educated….those least able to afford the Democratic Mantra….are the very victims of the entire mass of lies.
Report Post »soybomb315_II
Posted on July 17, 2012 at 1:20pmOf course it is going bust….What do you expect from an unconstitutional, corrupt government ponzi scheme?
Romney: “It’s Not a Failure By Any Measure”
Romney: “If there is a problem with the safety net, I am going to fix it”
You might remember during the debates that Rick Perry and many others were calling for serious reform to social security. Mitt Romney was the only person on stage coward enough to defend it. Unacceptable
Report Post »booger71
Posted on July 17, 2012 at 1:31pmSo you are stating you would like to see Barry return to office.
Report Post »Mutiny
Posted on July 17, 2012 at 1:44pmWell I like Soy do not want to see Obama in office but Romney is no better. We are looking for a fix not continuation of the same crap. If Obama wins in four years we start again and hopefully fix this mess(if the country doesnt go bankrupt before then and its all over). If Romney wins its eight years of the same garbage as Obama(if the country doesnt go bankrupt before than and its all over).
We want someone to follow the Constitution, cuts spending, and end the pointless overseas militarism. Neither Obama or Romney will do that. I dont believe we have four years, I think this is it. We have 2 years max.
Let me ask you a question. What are some major nation changing differences between Romney and Obama. Please dont waste my time with “he isnt a commie”, “he didnt eat a dog”, or “he is the lesser of two evils”. I am looking for real differences.
I look forward to your response.
Report Post »IsThereADifference
Posted on July 17, 2012 at 2:16pmIt is a very sad country we live in when a huge portion of the voting public uses their precious vote to remove a bad president from office instead of using it to put the right president into office. A sad country indeed.
Report Post »blanco5
Posted on July 17, 2012 at 1:18pmThe money is gone, folks! We are living off virtual money now.
Report Post »MAMMY_NUNN
Posted on July 17, 2012 at 1:17pmThe whole Government is going to collapse from City, State to Federal because our leaders fail to succom to reality that they will to be out of a job.
Report Post »girlnurse
Posted on July 17, 2012 at 1:45pmYea…I saw in the news this morning that San Bernadino can’t even pick up their garbage theyre so broke!
Report Post »I_Is_Duh_Thinkfish
Posted on July 17, 2012 at 3:33pmMammy_Nunn, yu is a frawd! Unles yu iz Potatoe Hed Bobby Brown! But, yuz right 2 gud fo him. Les yu gotz de right-on-de-wall lessenz. Unles yu be Potatoe Hed Bobby Brown, yu willz seize n disizt! Ellswise Eyes tell Gails‘n’Dweezle bout yu liddle sharaid!
Report Post »MAMMY_NUNN
Posted on July 17, 2012 at 6:10pmI_Is_Duh_Thinkfish
Report Post »You beez the frawd cuz you et the mashed potao’s.
I_Is_Duh_Thinkfish
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 10:23amO n buy-duh-weigh, ifs yu dint eet da tatahs, yu kaints b a Mammy. Make up yu mine.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on July 17, 2012 at 1:04pmThat Paul Ryan is a monster for trying to reform Soc. Security isn’t he? Why, Soc. Security is doing just fine! This country is so screwed if Obama gets four more.
Report Post »justangry
Posted on July 17, 2012 at 1:12pmWell not for that, perhaps for trashing our rights. We’re not going to be able to keep fighting all these wars and payout social security. The silver lining is Americans seem be there best during the darkest times.
Report Post »hauschild
Posted on July 17, 2012 at 1:12pmThis country is screwed regardless.
I think to fight this is futile. We may as well step back and understand the situation and prepare accordingly. Only a revolution is going to truly change things, and that is a ways off yet.
Report Post »woodyee
Posted on July 17, 2012 at 1:15pmGonzo, we’re screwed now, and if Obammy gets four more AND history repeats itself (for the upteenth time) millions of us will be removed for the sake of the remainder, which will just have to get used to the “changes”…
Report Post »Mutiny
Posted on July 17, 2012 at 1:47pmPaul Ryan’s budget cuts 5 trillion over the first 10 years. That still leaves us with like 25+ trillion dollars in debt. This isnt even addressing unfunded liabilities. Who think we can handle that kind of debt?
Report Post »woodyee
Posted on July 17, 2012 at 1:03pmAnother Demonicrat Party FIVE-YEAR Progrom that has become a hammock. The rules are so loose that folks who’ve been in-Country for so short a time that they’ve contributed near NOTHING, can qualify. Here in California, we’ve got recent legal immigrants bringing their elderly parents into the country to collect. They then establish an account into which the deposits are made, then go back to their home country to enjoy their ill-gotten gains. Some remain here to enjoy their ill-gotten gains – I’m talking primarily Mexicans & Chinese, then etc….
Report Post »trotula
Posted on July 17, 2012 at 12:54pmI’m a doc, and I see it all the time in my office. Someone in their 30′s who can see, hear, walk, talk, all 4 limbs working, can read, write, and drive a car, sitting in my office, texting their friends…I look at the form and it says, “Disabled,” drawing social security and on Medicare.
Report Post »MAMMY_NUNN
Posted on July 17, 2012 at 1:12pmIf you are gay and claim you have a identity issue you can get disibility.
Report Post »sawbuck
Posted on July 17, 2012 at 1:20pmTheir on a “mental disability”…
We see them here all the time too..!
But we call them useful idiot trolls..!
Report Post »girlnurse
Posted on July 17, 2012 at 1:52pmThe prison system pays for sex change operations!
Report Post »Robert Hawk
Posted on July 17, 2012 at 12:54pmI worked all my life and paid into the system only to come to the gates and find them locked. I want out of government programs, completely! This is not going to be funny in a couple of years. We have masses of folks who planned on social security being around, they paid into the system for decades and now the politicians who forced the taking of our money are telling us the system is broke.
I say fold the system completely and shut it down starting Jan 2013. Quit collecting social security out of the pay checks of American citizens and let them fend for their own retirement. We as Americans will work with our local church systems and in benevolence, we will take care of the needs of our elderly and disabled, just as we did before the catastrophe called social security came along.
You simply can not trust politicians. This is an example of the discussions we will be having concerning health care in the coming decade. We should simply consider dumping the entire thing a starting from scratch. We simply can’t do worse what what these politicians have done.
Report Post »hatchetjob
Posted on July 17, 2012 at 1:39pmI agree ROBERT, the whole system makes me sick.
Report Post »bigpew
Posted on July 17, 2012 at 2:34pmI agree too. I would opt out if I could get back all that I have already paid in. Just give me back what has been taken. That’s all I ask, I don’t even want interest just what has been taken.
Report Post »RightPolitically
Posted on July 17, 2012 at 12:48pmFraud. Corruption….. AND easy money!
Report Post »CatB
Posted on July 17, 2012 at 12:54pmYes .. those who run out of unemployment are now coming up with “ailments” to get disabilitiy … last month 80,000 jobs … and 85,000 new disability.
Report Post »girlnurse
Posted on July 17, 2012 at 1:50pmBecause there are no jobs and people need money! This is only going to get worse.
Report Post »I give “the people” the benefit of the doubt….it’s the government I hold accountable!
Yes, the gubment would LOVE us to turn on each other instead of the real criminals!!!
THE CORRUPT GOVERNMENT MACHINE!