Stop and start doing for yourself. This nation is overflowing with parasites and generational welfare brood-mares.
++ "Welfare brood mares"? Wow, welcome to George Wallace territory, before he apologized. I notice you don't mention "corporate fat cats" with government subsidies, the other side's epithet.
Whatever I'm "getting" is more than offset by the amount I pay in taxes. This is a decidedly one-sided relationship I have with the government and I'm getting raped.
++ Sorry that you are being assaulted by a government we elect. Write your representatives to end welfare and food assistance, assuring the, that we can make up the diff by tossing coins to beggars and working in soup kitchens.
I suspect I'll never fully reclaim what it's cost me. SS is a loser program. Americans would be far better off investing their own money. The payoff would be greater and they would be able to pass that money along to their children when they die.
++ An old, ridiculous claim by opponents of one of the most successful social programs ever. You can still invest your money if you wish. But the vast majority of us do not want to spend our spare time reading prospectuses, the financial pages, talking with brokers. It is an insurance program. And why do I want to give it to my kid? He'll get everything else.
Why refuse benefits I've more than paid for? How about I keep my money then the problem of medical benefits are "mine" and not the governments who can do nothing well (military excluded).
++ Oh, I see: the only good thing the government does is blow up things and kill people. That would have been news to those whose homes and lives are being saved from fires and floods, to me benefitting from government approval of drugs to treat chronic illness, to my parents on relief when hungry during the depression, to beneficiaries of the homestead act, to farmers who benefit from government subsidized water and imported cheap labor and other subsidies.
Arguably one of the most breathtakingly stupid things I've ever read on this site.
You're statement seems to suggest that my money belongs to the government first and not me. And yet I was the one who earned that money...not the government. They don't earn anything.
Oh, HELL NO! But if you wish you are able to pay more into the system.
It's YOUR money.
Do with it what you like.