[BlueStreak]

Let's see. I have been contributing, out of wages I have EARNED, to SS since I was eighteen years old. I expect to get that money, or at least some of it, back when I get old.

This is "welfare"??? Money that I have no right to expect when I reach "retirement age"???

See, this is what I'm talking about.

My wages are "exorbitant", my benefits "lavish". Social Security, (And, I'm assuming Medicaid/Medicare as well.) is "welfare". The labor laws that protect things like minimum wage, forty hour workweek, collective bargaining and the workers right to "petition for redress of grievances" is "socialism" that oppresses the employer----and I'm supposed to think that the ideology these people push will lead to a better future???

For who? Not me, that's for darn sure.

Dave