Originally posted by Phil1 NACL
No SS/SSI payouts for those uber rich either, ditto illegals.
I'm gonna bypass 'illegals' for the moment, since my own life as a natuaral-born-american citizen is being used as a diversion there: (Point of interest: if an 'illegal' has a straight marriage with a citizen, bing, they're American. If it's not a straight marriage, they can be deported to Iran or elsewhere ...For being queer, officially... where they kill you for being queer. Just FYI.)
As for Social security to the 'uber-rich,' well, the 'uber-rich' are few in numbers. It may be 'staying alive' to *me,* but to them, it's a token that says they are getting what they paid into, and that's important to them.
The point of Social Security is that it's *for everyone.* It's *not* charity for the poor, it's.. *sharing our wealth.* However rich you are, you *do* deserve it.
And you should remember that everyone does. Maybe it's pocket change to you, it could to others be six people keeping a roof on this month.
If you wanna get political about it, go ahead and give to the nation what you see fit.
(But, oh, by the way, rich people don't actually qualify for SSI. If blood relations who've threatened to *kill* you have too much money, you don't qualify for SSI. Not till you hit retirement age, actually. )
Point of interest: I almost ha to have a sham of straight marriage to stay in college so I could escape ... Paying for dorms I couldn't afford to live in and be findable by people who wanted to do bad things to me...
*thud of palm against head.* What an *appealing*' lifestyle. ' It must be *lots* of fun. Where do I sign up?
It must have been lots of fun, cause to this day, people are assuming I'm having way too much 'illicit fun' twenty years later with my major rheumatoid arthritis and endocrine breakdowns to snuggle with anyone and not somehow massively screw up Christian conservatives' otherwise *brilliant* macroeconomics.