Not only does the burden lie to each and every person but we are made to feel ashamed for not caring for our fellow citizens and veterans who need so much but no longer can provide for themselves. What gets me is this concept that the Social Security that comes our of our income as a tax to aide the poor and ill is something we are all entitled to upon the magical age of inheritance. When the Social Security system was created during the Great Depression it was intended as a back up system to aid those that are too old to support themselves and those regardless of age who are too ill, whether mind or body, to support themselves as well. It was not intended as a retirement fund, but over the years some have seen it as just that to include our government officials who themselves have more abundance of means than most people do.
The system is flawed yes. We pay a Social Security tax to fill that coffer for those that need. There are federal guidelines put into place to define and describe what is "need" versus what is "able." Now we have a situation where there are no more funds. Retirees receive bonuses and retirements and IRAs and still expect SSI as an extra to their magical age of "inheritance" and it is and has drained our coffers. I see people with two houses who cannot possibly live in both at one time collect more public assistance than one would believe they are entitled. Their medical is inexpensive and there seems to be breaks for all sorts of care and treatment and then they show up to town meetings and explain how they don't want to pay more taxes for school zonings because they don't have children any longer and think "we" the government are taking advantage of "them." My own grandparents did this and complained the whole time and I never understood how they would go through the money they had.
Now I am disabled and some of these elder citizens have to make a determination on my mental capacity and my physical well being. Our elected officials receive the finest of care in the best of hospitals and they decide who gets to receive a transplant and which children can go without a father or mother. We PAY for their healthcare and they refuse to share that wealth and give us the means to pay for our own. We PAY for their estate dinners and meals and we have children and sick and seniors starving. We PAY for their security and transportation while our children walk to school and without bodyguards. We pay for their lavish parties and not one of them ever came up with one thin dime to help put up a balloon at my kid's birthday.
I know why there SHOULD be a surplus and know why these programs were created. I think it's a dying shame to have so many homes that lie empty fifty weeks out of fifty-two and kids sleeping huddled close to parents on the sidewalks of downtown Miami and New York. I think it's a dying shame that I have to wait over two years for someone who is not an authority on the subject of my disability to decide for me what is substantially a safe amount of light/daylight when all medical documentation suggests ALL light is harmful to my kind. I think it is a dying shame the programs designed to help our poverty-stricken and unwell are designed purposefully flawed so as to not have to mandate "pay-outs" and thus keeping the money in the politicians hands and the FDIC for interest accrued.
Sure we live in a free country. Look how free it is for the politicians who pay for so little yet already have so much. How much free living should the wealthy class get?~mobe's love to her all and her all to her loves.
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