Well, I crossed the Rubicon today

[Aviation Pro]

By receiving my first Social Security payment. I guess that makes me a useless eater.

[wcmagumba]

1. Me too, but we're all "Herberts" as seen on Star Trek...

All in good fun of course...

[Aviation Pro]

10. Damn that's a blast from the past

Guess I really am old and infirm.

[popsdenver]

46. I have often thought of Trump

and his CABAL as being of the opinion that they think they are the BORG.......

They and the entire Republican Party!

"Resistance if Futile"................

[rickyhall]

58. The Establishment has alsways been Herberts. I'm part of no Establishment.

[LoisB]

2. Congratulations!

[Aviation Pro]

9. Thank you

....

[BOSSHOG]

3. Ya Fuckin worthless Bum

Welcome to the Country Club.

[Aviation Pro]

8. Thanks BOSS

You da BOSS.

[tanyev]

4. Now get out there and harvest some crops!

[brush]

6. Hee hee hee. That's what TSF envisions for us all after our first career.

I'd like to see his fat ass out in the fields picking crops.

[BurnDoubt]

14. I'm pretty sure he doesn't know his ass from a hole-in-the-ground...

let alone a Hamberder from a dirt-clod.
He'd definitely be FIRED! in the first twenty-minutes.
Now THERE"S a Useless Eater.

[Aviation Pro]

7. Think I'll stick around in my chosen profession for a bit before I have to hit the fields

lol

[malaise]

5. Congrats

Now lock him up😀

[Cheezoholic]

11. I was just put on disability in May so not only am I a worthless eater, I'm a worthless driver

that gets to park in the front row!!

[Marie Marie]

12. Oh great. another one complicit in a big Ponzi Scheme.

Enjoy every penny of it - you've earned it.

[Delmette2.0]

38. You and your employers invested it.

Now you are withdrawing a little at a time.

[Permanut]

13. Hey, I've been a freeloader for 14 years..

It's about time you joined in!

[MissouriDem47]

49. I Am Too

For me it's been 12 years and I got a big raise earlier this year.

[Skittles]

15. may I ask how long ago you applied

[Aviation Pro]

16. First available month, March

My full retirement month was June (66 years 8 months).

[Skittles]

18. OK great, thanks

I'll remember to apply three months ahead

[rubbersole]

17. Pretty much. A long-in-the-tooth taker.

And I'm loving mine. No alarms, no boss and a good dog. Cruising.

[Warpy]

19. I'll see your useless eater and raise you

by one capitalist parasite. My dad surprised me with enough to live on when he died.

However, you should feel about being a useless eater. Every bit of useless eating we do employs farmers, processors, truck drivers, warehouse people, office staff for all of this and grocery workers at the end. So have another helping and bottoms up. You're still contributing.

[electric_blue68]

31. Good analysis!

[Katcat]

20. Wellll

Could be worse. After all, you are in good company.

[Wonder Why]

21. Damn young 'uns. If it weren't for you people claiming the money at your age, us elderly folk

would be able to suck it dry for a much longer time.

[2naSalit]

22. Congrats!!

And welcome to the club!!

[TexLaProgressive]

23. At least it's not the Styx😂

[UTUSN]

64. Hah! - was going to say, Beware the Ides of March

[Marthe48]

24. Congratulations! But, Nature abhors a vacuum

As soon as the universe knows you have any free time, you'll get offers to fill it up


I'm on my 3rd retirement. I'm sure I'll be onto something else.

[Aviation Pro]

28. Not retired yet

As long as my mental acuity and physical fitness holds out, I’ll be sticking around until my target retirement year in 2033.

[Marthe48]

47. Great way to fool Mother Nature!

and get out of the system what you paid in. I bet you earned every penny.

[tavernier]

39. I'm on about my eighth.

My friends call me CHER, and my boss pasted a photo of her on my locker at work. Every time I think I’m finished subbing, some thing happens and they call me back in. Now if I could just Turn Back Time, I wouldn’t need all that expensive collagen moisturizer.

[Stinky The Clown]

25. You are a bloated tick on the ass of society

Welcome to the club!!!

[surfered]

26. Congratulations! You earned it

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I envy your youth

[misanthrope]

27. Welcome to the club

Recalibrate your sensors for "jackboots approaching."

[Cha]

29. Congratulations ol Bean.. welcome to

receiving payback for what we've earned over the years.

[underpants]

30. You'll get everything you pai into in about 7 years.

The single best retirement and anti-poverty plan ever created

[electric_blue68]

32. Congrats!

[AllaN01Bear]

33. ive been drwing ss along w ss i for a while now .

[orangecrush]

34. Welcome

To the club.

FFFF

[COL Mustard]

35. It's a nice feeling!

I started a few months ago. Had wanted to hold out to 70 but I also wanted to start getting it before they screwed it all up. Glad I did!

[Think. Again.]

36. Finally broke into your savings account, eh?

You've been saving money into that account for a long time, time to enjoy it a little.

[ret5hd]

37. i heard there's some farm jobs that need fillin'.

[doc03]

40. I have been worthless bum for 15 years. nt

[czarjak]

41. AKA:

Burden On Society according to Republicans.

[BOSSHOG]

42. What this country needs

Is a WORK REQUIREMENT for republicans in Washington

[Oeditpus Rex]

43. I'm trying to remember how to say that

the way Hitler did. "Eater" is "Esser," but I can't remember "useless."

(I know a guy named Esser. That's sorta weird.)

Anyway, I beat you by nine months. It's a semi-beautiful thing.

[GoodRaisin]

44. Congrats from another useless eater.

Been eating for 10 years and hope to keep eating for the next 10.

[WiVoter]

45. Gonna Be Me Next Month

Time for me to raise hell (good trouble)!

[Ms. Toad]

48. Thirteen months until I join you.

I'm waiting until 70, since I have family longevity on my side (both parents are nearly 94; the mother of one died at 93, the other at 101).

[LSparkle]

50. About a month to go for me

I’d wanted to make it to 70 but after the election I knew I wouldn’t make it so I’ll be done just before Labor Day 😀. Already have received my first disbursement and Medicare card!

[Ms. Toad]

62. I actually retired 3 years ago, and I've been on Medicare for 3 years.

I'm just not starting SS yet. I have a pension from my state employment (public high school teacher & University administrator/faculty), my spouse is already drawing SS (she's 5 years older - we probably should have started drawing hers at 65, since she doesn't have hereditary longevity), and we each had $30,000 annuities, so we're drawing those down so they will vanish about the time I hit 70.

[mahina]

51. Iʻd be really interested to know how you figured out whether to retire when you are able or when the payout is highest.

Super confusing, for me anyway!

aloha Aviation Pro. You are nothing like useless!

[Aviation Pro]

59. I took the amount I would begin to receive at full retirement (66 years 8 months)

And extended that out to age 70 when the full enhancement would kick in and then figured out how long it would take to reach the amount for 3 years and 4 months.

But it doesn't stop there because as I would have recovered the deficit in the first few years, the full retirement benefits would continue to be paid out (look at it as two steps forward, one step back situation).

Extrapolating that data, I wouldn't have caught up until 82 and it's not a given that I will last that long even given my commitment to a healthy lifestyle.

That drove my decision.

[turbinetree]

52. Your deserve your social security.............welcome to the useless eater's club.............

[B.See]

53. You're only getting back what they've taken FROM you. The ones REALLY on the take

are grifters like Trump and the wealthy tax dodging bstrds just LIKE him.

So enjoy every PENNY of it.

[Xavier Breath]

54. Well, then in that case, good luck taking Rome.

[Jack Valentino]

55. Today, I found $1250.01 gone from my savings account, the entire balance,

due to a very old judgement for a credit card debt---

however, since Social Security income is exempt from such judgements,
and all the money came from there over the past 3 months,
after some research I have hopes of getting it back....

(and this was unusual--- I've had that old judgement hanging over my head for many years,
but it was for more money than I've had in my bank account---
there were several attempts to garnish money from my bank,
for the entire amount due, but my bank previously always rejected the attempts,
and returned them to the creditor as "funds not available"---)

but this morning, I found my entire savings account emptied, $1250.01...
which I was saving up to pay up back property taxes....

My checking account was not touched,
but I transferred a little too much money to savings,
trying to avoid spending and pay these back taxes....

I am looking into poverty-based legal representation, should it come to that
but I think my bank made a legal mistake allowing this

[lees1975]

56. Been there for almost a year now.

It's my money. I earned it.

[lark]

57. Welcome to the club!

[mountain grammy]

60. Welcome!!

I've been a useless eater for 15 years now..

[kimbutgar]

61. My husband retired this month and next month we start medicste and he is starting his social security.

I still like to work and want to collect at 70 ( hopefully ) it’ll still be there.

It was a nightmare signing up for these programs during the reign of terror of the OPP ( orange pedophile president)

[homegirl]

63. May you be blessed to

receive your Earned Benefit for as long as I have. Began collecting at 62 and still receiving at 90!

[Faux pas]

65. Welcome to the club

of proud useless eaters Aviation Pro!

[traveler50]

66. Welcome.

Enjoy. You earned it.

[calimary]

67. Congrats! No, it makes you someone who's earned it.