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Metro135

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10. Ditto

Reply to Susan Calvin (Reply #8)

Sat Feb 22, 2025, 05:28 PM

Feb 2025

I have been working since I was 14, and I started paying into SS while still a teenager. . Part-time jobs in high school and college, and then 42 years in educational publishing. I retired last year at 70 so I could claim the full benefits that I em entitled to.

NOTHING makes my blood boil than when some Repuke vampire in Congress starts calling SS an "entitlement." It is NOT an entitlement. It is not some kind of "gift." We've been paying into it all our lives. Is it "running out of money"? Maybe rescind the Trump tax cuts from 2016. Problem solved. Zuckerberg and Bezos and Exxon don't need a fucking tax cut.

You want a definition of a "shit hole" country? Look around you, because at this moment in time you're living in one.

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