Social Security Lockbox

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Originally Posted by dellinger63

Medicaid should not be funded with Medicare money just as SSI should not be funded with SS .

This is my point. Seniors should only fear not receiving a check when the SS trust fund balance is approaching zero. It's supposedly at $3 trillion now so where's the money? How people can't see the Ponzi in what has occurred is befuddling?

Then I read a Riot post and realize how gullible some people actually are.

i don't know if medicaid comes out of medicare/ss funds...it doesn't really matter, since it's all lumped in one place in d.c. anyway.
and it's medicaid that is about to go thru the roof to pay for obamacare-states portions will rise dramatically over the next 9 years. so, altho the feds might make it look as tho it will save us in fed dollars, it's not going to save us in dollars, as states will have to 'enhance their revenue' to pay their part.


like i said in the other thread, there needs to be serious changes to ss. look at your pay stub, look at how much you pay into ss..do the math, take that sum and multiply for ten years. would that money pay your retirement supplement that they promise you in your ss papers they send to you if you live to 74, (that's the life expectancy of a male in the u.s.) and retired at 65. because ten years is all that's required of you to be 'fully invested' in ss and medicare.
the amount of time required to be fully funded should be tripled or even quadrupled, with appropriate premiums if you're not.