SS is not "Welfare"

Subject: Dennis Tucklers response to D. Purvis
I just logged on to this forum and started to read the above response! Then I started searching for a way to answer this prevarication!

Mr. Tucklers claim that 'you use up your contribution to SS in 4 to 5 years and anything after is welfare' is a "CANARD, UNTRUTH, FALSEHOOD, PREVARICATION, DISTORTION, MISREPRESENTATION, FIB, EQUIVOCATION AND LIE!

If you use even the slightest bit of the grey matter between your ears, you can mentally calculate that over a 30 year career, you will contribute 7% of your wages (15% if you count your employers) to SS. If you earn an average of $20,000 per year, you will earn $600,000 during a thirty year career. Fifteen percent of $600,000 is $90,000, which is the SS contribution. If your SS benefit is $10,000/year you will use up the SS benefit in a bit more than nine (9) years. In addition, if the politicians paid us interest on the contribution, say 6%, we could easily stretch that to 20 + years of benefits before it becomes "welfare"!

I know my own contributions (+ employers) added up to over $84,000 and retiring at 62, I receive about $12,000/year. This ought to last me 7 to 8 years!

I see and hear this falsehood repeatedly and it always has the same result! I get ticked off! Now why would anyone say things like that?

The response I expect to get (if any), is that I don't need all those benefits! Horse-pucky! I paid for it and I want it! All! After all you don't go in and buy a pair of shoes and take one home, do you? When you buy groceries don't you take all of them home? When you cash a check don't you re-count it to make sure you've got it all?

Cordially,
D. W. Plezia