backhoeboogie said:
I've been paying 47 years now with my employer matching my tax. Imagine all that money in a mutual fund.
I agree with money management issues. People can't afford things like rent, but they have new furniture and new cars and they gotta have the best cell phones too. So far the government hasn't cut welfare. But they always say SS is at risk.
Reason I never had a problem with SS it was pay to play. Every program has issues. The welfare program has become a lifestyle versus a helping hand, we are now on the third or forth generation that the Great Society spawned. When everything from food,housing, medical and pay to stay are involved, what incentive is there to work and pay. This is a growing demographic of our population.
We want to open the gates for illegals to come in to get on these programs
We should be cranking up CCC campaigns again putting Americans to work if they want to eat.
"Today, they are Americans under 18 years of age growing up in a country where the majority of their peers live in households that take "means-tested assistance" from the government.
In 2016, according to the most recent data from the Census Bureau, there were approximately 73,586,000 people under 18 in the United States, and 38,365,000 of them — or 52.1 percent — resided in households in which one or more persons received benefits from a means-tested government program.
These included the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (food stamps), Medicaid, public housing, Supplemental Security Income, the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families and the National School Lunch Program."