Well where do I start - you seem to put me in a box of uneducated, non-achievers,
OUCH! DOUBLE FAIL!
YOU ARE WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG.
I wish I could explain it to you but you want to be a martyr now so I guess you wouldn't care what
I had to say anymore.
I merely pointed out to you that many of us
who are achievers and hard workers (maybe even moreso than people who want to speak on our behalf)
actually care to give more.
living off of what other people provided. So just for your information - I've owned 6 companies,
Six? What happened to them? Why so many? I would think that "owning" one would be sufficient for someone who succeeded at it.
worked our hind ends off many hours a day
That is why I suggested perhaps I put in more effort into my career than you. I left open the possibility that you could have done just as much or more for yours.
But that doesn't change the original point. But again, you want to see something I guess you'll see it, eh?
, paid into Medicare & Social Security between my husband and I over 100 years
And you owned 6 businesses and you don't understand how Social Security works?
That doesn't sound good. It might explain some issues you are having in understanding the finer points of the debate right now.
- so people like you will have it when needed.
Wow! I mean wow! You really
do not understand Social Security at all!
Just ask yourself
who paid into social security for the first generation of recipients? And then tell me when Social Security became a "present pays for future" plan?
I'd really like to know.
But I don't stand around telling people like Romney you don't deserve to be successful
No one said that, Sharon. And you know it!
- you worked at it and provided what was needed to build a successful business.
Sharon, I don't know if you never did anything that didn't derive an immediate payback for you. But I've built things too. I have a few patents. Probably more than you do. Most of those netted me
nothing, nada zilch because it was part of my job. My job was to do research
on behalf of YOU THE NON-SCIENTISTS and provide my work to you. You, on the other hand, could get my research and patents for free or below market price licensing fees. Why? Because that is what scientist sometimes do. I got a paycheck and I didn't
have to make you patentable technology, but I did.
You're welcome.
I don't feel guilty about living off of my Social Security RETIREMENT BENEFITS WHICH WE PAID INTO
So it looks like you don't have to
understandsocial security before you collect it. Good.
But again, ask yourself the two questions. Who paid into the first generations social security and when did social security turn the corner to be present pays for future.
Just ask yourself those questions and maybe give me a clue as to what answer you came up with.
and are not taking from any 'hard working people' any more than you will be when you are our age.
Umm, you are wrong. Unless
when you paid into social security there was some sliding scale that would account for unknown future trends in cost of living adjustments. Maybe you did. Can you explain that to me? How did that work?
Also, again, you ran 6 businesses so it will cause you no effort to explain to me how you think Social Security works.