The average monthly Social Security benefit for a retired worker was about $1,230 at the beginning of 2012. This amount changes monthly based upon the total amount of all benefits paid and the total number of people receiving benefits.
http://ssa-custhelp.ssa.gov/app/answers/detail/a_id/13/~/average-monthly-social-security-benefit-for-a-retired-worker
And those of us who are younger paid around 7.5% of our income plus our employers paid another 7.5% of the equivalent of our earnings into the Social Security Trust Fund toward our benefits.
Cutting Social Security is stealing.
Cut the trade deficit. Call it protectionism. Call it whatever you want. Bring the jobs for young people back -- especially the manufacturing jobs. Build environmentally safe factories this time.
Cutting Social Security will just lead to misery because Social Security payments are about as low as they can go as it is.
Those who continue to work or have income in addition to Social Security pay normal taxes on that additional money. The system is fair. Don't lower Social Security benefits.
Cut CEO salaries. Cut congressional staffs and salaries to no more than the average Social Security benefit, and you will find that talk about cutting Social Security benefits ends right then and there.
When we seniors have money, we pay our taxes including property taxes and income taxes, volunteer in their communities, are generous to charities, take care of their grandchildren and spend just to live. Most of us seniors can no longer get paying jobs but we do not waste our time or our money.
Social Security is not a gift to seniors. It's money we earned plus interest.
James Carville should be ashamed of himself. No one should even talk about cutting Social Security. It is not OK. It is picking on the weak and on those who can no longer go back to school and get jobs.
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