Reply #55: excuse me

[rebel with a cause]

but some of us never traded in our ideals for that house in suburbia. We worked hard, paid into social security and tried to do the right thing. Never cheated or lied to get ahead, in fact I lost the best job I ever had (as far as pay) because I refused to play politics, kiss butts, and sell out. Well now I am sixty-one years old and in failing health.

well, I have a question for you, and others like you. If we are so many in number that we are going to break the social security's back when we retire, then what happened to all that money that we payed into the account over all those years? People with retirement plans have still payed into the ss system. If our number is so large, then there should have been a large surplus growing in the ss fund.

No, that surplus was paid out to the last generation and what was left was taken by bush to give the wealthy their big tax cut. We are not all to blame for the way things are. The ones who sold out were the ones who could afford to. And even if we were at times fooled by the dark side, we never sold our souls to them. We never became what we had fought against, even when we did not recognize the real danger. There are none of us perfect, but the ones who suffer the most are not the ones who sold out, they are the ones who stayed true to their beliefs and refused to become a part of the corporations.