Unlike millions of other seniors, I can live without the cost-of-living increases in Social Security payments. For one thing, I won’t have to face concomitant rising Medicare premiums so long as Mrs. Charm is able to keep me on her employer-supplied health insurance. But the implicit threat of SS’s impending demise really is angering.
Some of those who are too young to get the checks seem to think it’s free money, a kind of welfare payment for being old. It’s actually reimbursement, of sorts, for all those years the government merrily deleted social security taxes from my paycheck. I’m convinced that it would not be in the red if the pols hadn’t been stealing money from it all these years for their pork and lobby payoffs.
THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER 