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Nevernose

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21. Let's not forget that she collected Social Security

Reply to safeinOhio (Reply #11)

Mon Jul 13, 2015, 08:00 PM

Jul 2015

A nice little government program designed to help out the elderly. People say she paid into it, was therefore "entitled" to it (we certainly have a culture of entitlement, but it's not the poor who feel entitled).

True story: my great-aunt was widowed and was left a very[/] comfortable sum of money. She didn't need social security, didn't want social security, and when she started to get checks, she marched her ass down to the SS office and demanded that they stop giving social security checks to rich people. Eventually hired a lawyer to get SS to stop giving her checks. This wasn't Rand's "altruism," it was simple human decency with logic attached.

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