I am almost 50 years old. i have been paying into Social Security since days after turning 14

[sabrina 1]

33. Benefits should be raised, first of all because those who paid into SS and are currently elegible

for benefits, built up the fund to the point where it has a huge surplus right now. And don't anyone bother giving me the Repub talking point that the 'money is all gone'. It is no more gone than the money China lent us, or Japan. They borrowed from the fund just as they borrowed from China and they will have to pay it back, no matter how much they don't want to.

A raise in benefits would help stimulate the economy and it would be fair to those who contributed to that fund rather than lending any more to the Gov for more wars and more Bush tax cuts.

We should be demanding increases in benefits and letting them know we are not falling for their lies and BS re SS which had zero, nothing, zilch to do with the deficit, other than to lend them money to cover their gambling debts and since those loans are guaranteed by the full faith and credit of the US Gov, there is no doubt they will be repaid, as will China's loans. We and China are creditors of the US Government. Our fund, the SS fund, belongs to the people and it should be given to the people.

Enough of the lies and deceptions, it's way past time to end these lies which we all know are intended to scare people into agreeing to the privatization of the SS fund.