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NYC_SKP

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10. We are making it so.

Sun May 12, 2013, 09:24 PM

May 2013

I'm not arguing its solvency, I'm arguing whether or not it will be fairly distributed and I maintain that it will not, it will not be adjusted for inflation and cost of living and what it pays me will be worth less than half what my parents received.

You aren't in my situation, either.

Having been in a classroom for some years and drawn SS in other years, I'm likely to be screwed and disallowed by one to collect the other.

At least that's what a lot of people have told me.

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