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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: i-node who wrote (760956)	1/2/2014 6:31:19 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1574185

I don't think it is free shit. I've been paying into it all my life, and I'm still paying about $130/ month. "You have no problem with this generation being an economic burden to future generations;" Oh, but I do; that's precisely the purpose of SS and MC; to keep the elderly out of poverty so they aren't a burden to their kids. Social Security: Still Lifting Many Older Americans Out of Poverty In the early 1930s, before Social Security was created, many older Americans were destitute or depended on help from family and friends for basic needs like food and shelter. Today, Social Security is the nation’s single most important anti-poverty tool – lifting about 21.4 million people of all ages out of poverty. Social Security lifts about 35 percent of older Americans (almost 14.5 million) out of poverty by providing a regular, guaranteed retirement income. Thanks to Social Security, only about 8.7 percent of Americans aged 65 and over—and many of these are not beneficiaries—fall below the Census Bureau’s poverty thresholds . blog.aarp.org