And what of this SS I continually pay into that I will never see a dime of? How lame am I? I know that the people of my generation and younger aren't going to see a bit of it, and I pay to keep people off my ass. Which I shouldn't. It's so fucking wrong. They don't adjust for inflation.

By my calculations on their calculations...By the time I file for SS benefits my monthly income will amount to a candy bar and a tank of gas a month. lol! Maybe they will pay out!! lol!! Here's a check that will expire as soon as you cash it. The bank will process your check for the amount of money on the check. Have a nice day.

I'm just pissed that my husband and I worked hard all year last year...Paid a lot in taxes and somehow owe them even more money for being married and claiming it.

SSI is just another tax on our income. It's used to pay for a bankrupt ponzi scheme.

A Ponzi Scheme is exactly what it is.

The entire world economy is a pyramid scheme. Otherwise, why would anyone want the economy to grow?

Speaking of SSI (that's just social security, right?), I started paying into that, in a small way, when I was 16 years old. Paid into it most of my life. Now I pay into PERS. I've heard I won't get both. WTF? Does anyone know? I tried looking into it but I didn't understand it, partly because I'm stupid and partly because they don't want me to, and partly because I might not want to know. Is it true?

That ... I ... just ...holy crap. The sheer amount of ignorance in those two sentences is almost more than I can fathom.

Economics is not a zero-sum game. Every dollar earned is not "taken" from somebody. It is possible, in fact, it is the norm, for free markets to increase in the general prosperity of ALL involved. That's what it means to "grow the economy."

Lord, I hope you were just being sarcastic.

Stop talking like that you neo con prick! you're just glad to crush the middle class so you can enslave them along with the working poor we already have! Every time a rich man makes a dollar, two are stolen from the poor, and a bunny rabbit is killed! ____________insert completely BS, rant against wealth creation here _____________________________.

HLJ....I think he was kidding. At least it's back to the old reactionary cellar I know. I was worried that there wasn't enough flaming going on lately! (outside of our beloved Sheldon)
;)

Any fool can fill a page with ignorance. It takes a special kind of genius to condense it into two brief sentences.

whew. OK.

But I still think the world economy is a pyramid scheme...


... which is now collapsing.

The world finance market has been gambling without knowing the odds. And now the debts are due.