Entitlements my ass, I paid cash for my Social Security Insurance! Just because they borrowed my money, doesn't make my benefits some kind of charity or handout! Congressional benefits like free health care, outrageous retirement packages, 67 paid holidays, three weeks paid vacation, unlimited paid sick days: now that's welfare; and they have the nerve to call my retirement entitlements!
Social Security should not be thought of as an entitlement, but remember there are many types of social security and some people will receive many hundred times more benefits then they ever paid into. We need Social Security reform across the board and that is just going to have to include some sort of increase in the eligibility age.
Someone please tell me what the Hell is wrong with all the people that run this country!
We're broke and can't help our Seniors, Veterans, Orphans, Homeless etc.?
In recent months we have provided aid to Haiti , Chile, Pakistan...home to bin Laden...literally BILLIONS of DOLLARS!
Our retired seniors living on a fixed incomes receive no aid nor do they get any breaks while our government gives Hundreds of Billions to Foreign Countries!
You are right about this country going bankrupt and we still send all that foreign aid. Remember what Herman Cain said, words to the effect that we should figure out who are friends are,...figure out who are enemies are, and quit giving money to our enemies,....which in my mind includes the U.N.
They call Social Security and Medicare entitlements even though most of us have been paying for them all our working lives. And now, when its time for us to collect, the Government is running out of money. Why did the Government borrow from our Social Security in the first place? That is a question best given to the Democrats who have dipped into what was supposed to be a protected pot of money and use it for all sorts of programs, aimed at creating and rewarding Democrat voters.
We have many adoptable children who are shoved aside to make room for the adoption of foreign orphans.
AMERICA: a country where we have homeless without shelter, children going to bed hungry, elderly going without needed medication, mentally ill going without treatment, etc.
Imagine if our Government gave us the same support they give the people who hate us.
Sad, isn't it? Yes it is sad when the U.S. gives Palestinians hundreds of millions of dollars and these are the same low lifes who cheered in the streets of Gaza when the World Trade Towers fell.
