The social security you paid was to support those retired while you worked. The social security you collect today is what those working now pay while you are retired. It is a pay-as-you-go system and is unfunded. That is the only way FDR could get Congress to pass it. What funding there is covers the medical-disability side. But when I got my first social security card as a fourteen-year-old farm worker there were thirteen workers for every retired person; now, there are less than four workers per retiree.
What really needs fixing is that we need to go back to a graduated income tax system, where the rich pay higher marginal tax rates as they earn more. Since 1985 there has been a transfer of wealth earnings from the middle class and working poor over to the rich. This has bankrupted our country economically and emotionally. And we need to charge social security taxes on every dollar earned, and not just the first $100,000 earned; so that those making millions pay their fair share for the benefits they have used to amass their wealth in this freest of all market economies on earth. Up until around 1985, the Chairman and CEO of Disney Corp. made about 100 times more than the lowest paid worker in the Disney organization. Now, he makes around 20,000-times more than the lowest paid worker in the organization, an obscene amount of money. Were all the top CEOs dumb-bells before 1985 and just market-savants now? Nonsense! But America has embraced the lottery life, wherein there is always the chance, no matter how ridiculously remote, of becoming filthy-rich. They like that idea so much now that they think anyone suggesting a reduction in the extremes of wealth and poverty, as existed 40 years ago, as either nuts or anti-American. What if everyone in the state saw their taxes cut, so that they received $50.00 more in their pockets per year, but it meant that evening public library hours would be cancelled, or that Meals-on-Wheels would only run three days per week? How many would be for it? That is what it really means when your governor announces having saved the state $350 million in taxes this year. As you drink water from the well, don't forget about those who dug it. Dalton H. Garis, Ph.D Associate Professor, Economics and Commodity Price Behavior The Petroleum Institute P.O. Box 2533, Umm al Nar Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates Office: +971-02-607-5070/5297 Mobile: +971-50-668-5760 New York: (718) 271-2738 From: john snodgrass <jcs...@yahoo.com> Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2011 09:20:45 -0700 (PDT) To: pat cooley <patticoole...@gmail.com>, Janice Nichols <jan...@centurytel.net>, kevin weilacher <hwyfli...@yahoo.com> Cc: Roger & Terese Pratt <r.c.pr...@frontier.com>, tmic-list <tmic-list@eskimo.com> Subject: Re: [TMIC] Definition Resent-From: <tmic-list@eskimo.com> Resent-Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2011 09:22:22 -0700 seams like i seen this is obama-care? then again what if i were the farmer from long ago. once i am not able to take care and if i have no sons or sons-n-laws,,,,i just wait my turn to die. we are a spoiled bunch but i am soooooooo thankful for the spoil! then again i paid for years into social security so i am just collecting from what should be mine,,,,,reckon im not a taker after all. but wait! i have a food stamp card! thanks for the food stamp card! --- On Wed, 8/17/11, kevin weilacher <hwyfli...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > From: kevin weilacher <hwyfli...@yahoo.com> > Subject: Re: [TMIC] Definition > To: "pat cooley" <patticoole...@gmail.com>, "Janice Nichols" > <jan...@centurytel.net> > Cc: "Roger & Terese Pratt" <r.c.pr...@frontier.com>, "tmic-list" > <tmic-list@eskimo.com> > Date: Wednesday, August 17, 2011, 11:17 AM > > The problem that I see with what Nietzsche said, is that there are many people > that are not "invalids" as I am assuming in his definition....as people that > are disabled.... > That are as much as or even more of a drain on society.....and use it to their > advantage.....perhaps in different ways than being dependent on a physician or > medicine, but a drain on society nonetheless...(our prison system for > one....or those that work the system in regards to welfare) > I see his view as being totally ridiculous.... > > Kevin > N.E. Ohio (Canton) > > > From: pat cooley <patticoole...@gmail.com> > To: Janice Nichols <jan...@centurytel.net> > Cc: Roger & Terese Pratt <r.c.pr...@frontier.com>; tmic-list > <tmic-list@eskimo.com> > Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2011 10:48 AM > Subject: Re: [TMIC] Definition > > I second that, Janice. > > Patti > > On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 9:44 AM, Janice Nichols <jan...@centurytel.net > </mc/compose?to=jan...@centurytel.net> > wrote: >> Nietzche is an ___hole!!!!! Sorry if I offended anyone, but I couldn't >> believeI I just read such a statement. Who of us earthlings can >> determine whose life is being invalid/not valid? Who makes that >> decision - only healthy people? What a jerk!!!!!! >> Janice >> >> >> -----Original Message----- From: Roger & Terese Pratt >> Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2011 3:14 PM >> To: tmic-list >> Subject: [TMIC] Definition >> >> This is how I feel some times as an invalid (or is that invalid as in not >> valid). I know it is wrong, but if Nietzshe said it, it must have been >> thought many times before. Just having a bad day, I'll be more up tomorrow. >> >> "The invalid is a parasite on society. In a certain state it is indecent to >> go on living. To vegetate on in cowardly dependence on physicians and >> medicaments after the meaning of life, the right to life, has been lost ought >> to entail the profound contempt of society." >> -Friedrich Nietzsche >> >> - Roger in Kennewick, WA >> >> > > >
