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Stryst

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29. Exactly!

Reply to REP (Reply #20)

Tue Jun 24, 2014, 12:26 AM

Jun 2014

I started working for my uncle and paying into the system at 14. I served in the Air Force, where I paid into the system the whole time. Even when my first claim was rejected, I forced myself to work until I got fired from three jobs in a row for having seizures at work. I feel that I earned the right to have my government, whom I served loyally, take care of me in my declining years. Is that so much to ask, really? To not be afraid, all the time, that something will go wrong, and I'll miss a single check and be on the streets?

And...how much did the GOP spend on their efforts to get rid of the AFA? Meanwhile, I live in Florida, and my partner has no medical coverage at all. Because the governor is a snake cultist who feeds on misery?

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