Comments on: Boehner is Wrong on Social Security

By: Leena Delinois

Leena Delinois — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 16:29:37 +0000

To our dem/lib friends: Barney Frank now says Fannie and Freddie should be dissolved…does not the fact that the ringmaster of home finance disasters saying this mean something to you. I find it not only pathetic but ironic And remember if you will that Nancy P. and Harry R. have guided the Congress and Senate since 2006. So if you want to speak about misdoings lately ,I say there are at least a few others besides GWB and the Repubs to examine. At least the Repubs have a working knowledge of how things work and how to get things moving….70 days and counting.

By: Clay S

Clay S — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 07:08:19 +0000

I hope I don’t get too carried away here, but, here goes! I am almost 53, and I am drawing S.S. Disability and I HATE it. I worked at last employer for 20+ yrs. I messed up the nerves in my back (on the job, helping fellow employee), had back surgery, then went back to work. My employer put me on the worst jobs possible, and which made my back worse yet. They TOLD me to file for disability, but, I had no intention to do so. I could not just quit, and they knew it. Thankfully, I was able to continue working with help of a few fellow employees. Then, they announced the plant was closing down and moving production to Canada.
With the pain I was experiencing, I knew no one else would hire me. Thankfully, I finally found a doctor that understood, and after I had gone through my savings, I was approved for disability. I still wish I could find some kind of job, but between the constant pain, and side affects of the pain meds, I wouldn’t trust myself working.
On to the point someone else mentioned, these young people that have barely, if at all, paid into S.S. The ones that are living on S.S. Disability, and are giving their friends tips on how to get approved. “All you have to do is tell your doctor that you are depressed because of friend/relative/acquaintance committing suicide, or attempting to, or, your parents splitting up, parents mistreating you, etc.” The diagnosis could be Bipolar, which seems to be reason enough to get on disability. (Isn’t this treatable?)While others are overweight, and this seems to be a good reason, also.
Am I the only one that thinks something is wrong here? How is it these doctors get these lazy people on Disability so easily? While others that obviously need the help, cannot get it?

By: James C. Finkel Sr.

James C. Finkel Sr. — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 19:45:15 +0000

If only people who put into Social Security received payments from Social Security it would not be in financial disarray.

By: Don Manyette

Don Manyette — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 21:27:42 +0000

One of the talking heads said a while back that we had two major political parties in this country. The evil party and the stupid party. The more I see what is going on, the more I realize he was exactly correct.

By: Robert Parsons

Robert Parsons — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 19:39:40 +0000

In all the comments about what is wrong with Social Security, why it is broke, and why the entitlement is helping break the government, I never hear anyone put the blame where it belongs. The problem with Social Security is CONGRESS! Originally, the money taken out of our paychecks for Social Security went into a “lock-box” where the only people who received money from it were the ones who paid into it. Congress moved it from the lock-box to the General Fund, so they could “borrow” from it for increased perks and pork. So far they have “stolen” 3 trillion dollars from it, putting in IOU’s which we all know will never be paid back. The obvious first step in correcting the problems associated with Social Security would be for Congress to put the money back into a lock-box, and only the people who paid into it could be paid from it. Of course, they never mention this as a solution because they will not give up the “goose that laid the golden egg.” Our present Congress is a disgrace, with their automatic “back-door” pay raise every year, golden parachute retirement with full pay and top-of-the-line benefits for life (even if they served only one term), free underground air-conditioned parking (heated in winter), free “franking” (which we all know is used for personal as well as “company” business, access to free government transportation (as in Speaker Pelosi’s case, riding around in a military jet that costs $54,000 an hour – just for fuel; what’s wrong with commercial first class, which is VERY comfortable, and costs less than $500 anywhere in the U.S.), and more perks than I have room for – but none of them ever mention these as waste that could be stopped if they had a moral, ethical or spiritual compass. Until we elect people to Congress who realize that they work for the people rather than the other way around, demonstrate ethical behavior, and stop with the elitist “we know better than the people what is good for them” attitude, things will never change in D.C. That Congress is allowing the current administration to trample all over the Constitution, accept the president’s practice of appointing “czars” who answer only to him, without Congressional screening (totally against the Constitution), appoint people to the Supreme court that have never even been a judge, put a man in charge of the CIA who has not one day of law enforcement experience – I could go on for several pages, but I’m getting sick to my stomach. Anyone reading this knows what I’m talking about. Until all this changes, nothing will stop the inexorable American slide into oblivion. God help us.

By: Laura S.

Laura S. — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 02:46:02 +0000

Seems like we are rewarding parents who do a bad job raising their children, thus resulting in ADHD and Bi polar kids. Reagan slashed the walfare system and then all the walfare people rolled over into the SSI Disability program.

By: Bob Hunt

Bob Hunt — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 14:38:52 +0000

I liked your July 9th posting especially the part dealing with the Energy Dept. To take that vein one step further I suggest there be a Flat Tax or Fair Tax, abolish the IRS sell all the office equipment at auction as wel as all the property and buildings they occupy. The funds from the sales could reduce the defecit these jerks have put on us and Geitner would probably have to find work in the private sector; that sector of America they have tried so hard to destroy.

By: Wesley E. Smith

Wesley E. Smith — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:07:26 +0000

Thank you for basing your articles on principle! It is not okay any more, in fact never was, okay to play one party against the other and always accept what “our guys” say, versus “their guys”.

If those that are supposedly on our side talk like those that are opposed to sound American principles, call them on it!

By not challenging people on principle and caving in to party leaders is how we got many R.I.N.O.s like McCain and hence Obama!

Thanks!

I just signed up as a new member because of your integrity!

Sincerely, Wesley E. Smith

By: Patty Sylvester

Patty Sylvester — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 12:32:27 +0000

If you get your statement from SS it shows you how much you paid in over the years. Then you figure about how much you’ll recieve at retirement. If you devide that amount into your contributions, you’ll be surprised how quickly you get you money back. Anything over that is gravy. If they cut you off after your contributions were used up, alot of people would be in trouble. Originally SS was to help WIDOWS care for their family when the bread winner died. Politictions have scewed the system to get votes.

By: Gregory Kelly

Gregory Kelly — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:18:54 +0000

I call them Republicrats.