Forum Post: When I'm 64
Posted 12 years ago on Nov. 18, 2011, 11:44 p.m. EST by PartyX
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Amazes me how upwardly mobile people who make over 60 grand a year, but under 150 feel rich enough to think Damn look how much more money I would make if the gov't did not take this out of my pay. You work at a place for awhile and you get sick or they lay you off and suddenly your finances change. Unforeseen expenses can change ones life and sometimes life is not they way you planned it.
Get a clue people, don't fuck with Social Security
I'm under no obligation to support you through your misfortune. If I wish to I will do that through private charitable contributions. There is no place for your communism in our country.
So what do you do when you are holding on to a ledge of a cliff and someone is passing by? Any advice?
Philanthropy was still a new idea I suppose when FDR felt like a country so full of generous people who knew what a hard days work consisted. I also suppose they knew it was a crime to not take care of the people who took care of them. Some might think it sounds like entitlement, but I do not feel that way, nor did my grandparents who paid in and received SS when they reached age to draw.
To live in a society you have to observe the rule of the law. Nobody called FDR communist and if you had a heart, you may be more sensitive.
Btw. I served 20 years in the military, My wife and I are in our 40's and we both own property and have money in the bank. Nothing in my life is an absolute; so a safety net, regardless if it is not enough to live comfortably on is still something I paid for with my labor.
I do not wish you any harm, but I hope if misfortune does happen to you or your family that your own karma does not leave you in such despair.
There certainly is a place for a social safety net. The size and shape of that net is debatable. Such a thing is not "communism", that's just alarming language.