With the release of tomorrow's report, Social Security will once again be on everybody's mind, especially those that would like to trim, if not gut, the current program under the rubric that we can't afford it.
As one who knows many individuals who, despite efforts to save and prepare, found themselves on the short end and use (not abuse!) SS for their retirement (and even some cases that used it many years before retirement when a spouse died young) - I find myself a fan. Sure it takes a little of my income, but it takes the same little of everyone's income, and in return we have a floor through which we cannot fall regardless of life's vagaries.
But the rich don't see it that way: It's just an entitlement of the poor, and they hate paying money to the poor. Never mind the social good it does, never mind the relative pittance it is to their incomes....
So, some numbers, and a very good plan for maintaining Social Security for the next 75 years.
And access to your Senator when the hatchet jobs start coming in! Let 'em know you care! Keep Social Security alive.
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