Kasich says "they're just gonna have to get over it" re: seniors' pre-earned retirement benefit.

All of those career politicians belong in the looney bin. I am very, very serious.

Oh, well, then let the seniors' children take care of them. Yes, of course, because the job market is so booming.

These people are certifiable.

This is an outrage!

Not to dispute anything in this thread.....
However, I will point out that my own mom, age 95...
Has already recieved social security for 32 years after retiring at 62.
Almost, she only ever worked for 20 years, I don't know how it works exactly....only that she has recieved for 12 years longer than she ever worked.

Also, she has survived 2 husbands and is well set financially.
She doesn't even spend the social security money, it goes right into education accounts for great grandchildren.

She still drives and gardens, mows her own lawn etc.

What would politicians do if they couldn't be politicians?

Your Mom is very lucky, but my Mom was sick and had to live off of her social security!

ON POINT.

SS was never a benefit. ITs not a "gift" of government.

Each and every working citizen PAID into that. It is, was, and always has been YOUR money.

Stolen by the government. And these career politicians. Of course, THEY don't have to worry about that--theirs is lifelong, and immune to it. Becuase theirs is different than ours.



Pinned it.

They've been dipping into pensions for decades; you'd think it was coming out of their own pocket, thieving bastards.

There has been NO cost of living adjustment for years now...FUCKERS.

Doesn't matter who gets in as president this will happen.

He and Clinton used the Social Security funds (so call lock box)
to balance the budget as i recall. All the sur plus money from SS to funds to BS. IOU now SS is going broke and they want to raise retirement age into the 70s+

This what happens when a candidate has no chance of winning. The truth of what these guys really think comes out, what a repulsive human being.

Well god for her! And it doesn't matter! There would be sufficient money in the program today if the politicians had not borrowed against it in the first place!

If the govt ability to force the money from your paycheck for SS is in the category as a tax (like PPACA) then the FedGov has no obligation to give you one cent of it back to you.

Do you people realize that if someone serves just 1 four year term as Congressman (woman) they receive a pension! Thats right, they get a pension courtesy of we the people tax payers!

As far as I'm concerned that needs to stop retroactively! I wonder how they would like that?

Trump said he wouldn't change Soc. Sec. because there is enough in the account to last for something like 24(?) years. He said we would deal with it for now as there is plenty of time left for that, so not to worry, he'll find a way to keep it going. Neither Grandma nor Grandpa will sit in the dark eating cheese and crackers.

I wish he would tell the truth about how the so-called "shortage" in funds came about. It was Clinton who borrowed the money to balance the budget, leaving those IOUs. There should have been imposed a lock box on those funds so they couldn't be appropriated for the wars, illegal immigrant subsidies, and the rest of Congress' pet projects that served no good purpose. It really is time for a sweeping change in the halls of Congress.

And that would be likened to legal THEFT! That is why the people are overwhelming going for Trump, because we are sick and tired of the political bullshit from the thieving career politicians!

Asshole politicians need a salary cut because they do a real crappy job, they need to be put on minimum wage with no benefits at all.

There would be plenty of money in Social Security if they cut out the crazy checks that people get.

Why are most of you here just seeing the crazy now. This is why many went third party years ago. The two party system is so mired in deceit and outright lawlessness...

They could be used as diapers since they are both full of shit

They went into it years ago to pay for wars and blackhole shit... It's gone!!!The only ones who made money off the wars were the corporations and the politicians sucking their dicks.. how do you think all that was paid for.. well actually you and I are still paying for them.. enjoy the cheap gas while you can

That surplus money was interest they stoll if they had left it in the Social security separate from the government general fund, the social security would not be going broke.

Every year we got a list of money put in and money earn on the account, that is the person's social security account and it not a give them something. Even a 95 year old account with interest add and not spent by the government it would have accumulated. Of course the interest in the last decade or so has been almost nothing.

They could have done the same as the other retirement for government and professor retirement compound interest. One thing about this compound interest, it is the worse thing a group can do to another, usry at it highest. But that is the way some do business not legal in every state.

they be into drugs prostitution and kiddie porn ..oh wait!!

Fun fact... The budget was never balanced, and there was never a surplus.

If you look at the national debt totals from year to year, it has gone up EVERY year since 1957.

[link to www.treasurydirect.gov (secure)]

I am sorry Mr Politican, but once you leave office you can longer continue to receive benefit, get over it.

Well, she is the exception. Many people are ill and disabled from their jobs or just sickness.

From what the policians say, they want to make retirement at a later age. They expect people to work on a factory line till they are 82? I can't even watch a video of those factory lines, they make me so nervous, and yet people do it, for a WHOLE work day. I wouldn't last five minutes. How is someone going to do that at 82?

Also, women used to live longer than men, but those statistics are changing. Women are dying younger now. Women like your mom are a rarity.. Plus, there are people like me, I worked and got credits for Soc. Sec., but then went into a job that had its own pension plan and didn't pay into SS, so now I don't have enough credits to draw on the money that I paid in, money that was taken out of my paycheck.

It appears that some people do very well on Soc. Sec., like your mom... and others don't.

I don't know ANY 92 year olds who mow their own yard. Your mother is extremely blessed.

LOL I don't know what my point is here, I woke up wayyy too early this morning.

I hope they don't cut back Soc. Sec., because it is NOT an entitlement, it was money deducted from people's paychecks.

They keep using it and pension funds as a piggy bank and raiding them. There should be jail time for this kind of theft.

My Mom is dead, she worked all her life including right up until she went into the hospice because what social security she got wasn't enough for her to live on.

Social security is based upon how much you put into it. Your Mom also has the benefit of receiving her husbands' social security as well. My Mom never got a penny extra because my dad was never on social security.

you will find any surplus listed in the CAFR report.
comprehensive annual financial report.