NoTeaPartyPleez
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- Dec 2, 2012
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True story: My oldest and best friend of 35 years votes Republican, spouts conservative ideology, most of which always sounds good in the oratory sense, and rails against the "socialism creeping up our ankles".
Now here's where it gets weird, or shall I say, hypocritical: She filed early SS at age 62 about a year ago because she couldn't find a job that she wanted to take after being unemployed for two years taking care of her mother, who is also on SS and a pension half-funded by the state.
Her live-in b'friend has been on SSDI forever, gets paid under the table so he doesn't lose his SSDI and so I guess that means he hasn't paid taxes in many years, too. But he's a Tea Bagger, too. Big one. And votes for any tea bagger running for office.
The final rub: She was offered a job by one of her cousins who has an insurance agency 30 miles away. She can work out of her home from her own home office but she has to spend a week training at her cousin's office. I said what is the problem with that? You're going to finally have a real job again. "Well....I hate driving the Skyway (Sunshine Skyway bridge in Florida), it's about an hour round trip and I just don't do well driving distances anymore....". So, it's only for a week, I said. "Yes, but my mom just isn't doing that well right now."
No wonder you righties are so upset about freeloaders. You got enough of them right in your own camp!
I think she'd have a different tune if Obama had initiated entitlement cuts and someone blew the whistle on her b'friend gaming the system all these years. Mama dies and there goes that money from the Fed, too.
It's clear you don't know the difference between Social Security and Welfare.
Here's a hint; One pays into it and the other doesn't.
I know full well the difference. I used to do federal tax filings for a small business of 25 people. I know to the penny how much our company paid into each employee's SS every single month.
Yet your OP proves otherwise that you do not understand much beyond your far left programming!
Explain to me what part I don't understand.
""""If you’re a wage earner, you pay into the Social Security system straight out of your paycheck. This payroll tax is dubbed “FICA,” which stands for the Federal Insurance Contributions Act. The Social Security portion of your payroll tax is typically 6.2 percent of earnings up to a certain amount, which is adjusted annually (in 2012, the cap was set at $110,100). Employers also pay 6.2 percent for each employee. In addition, workers and their employers each pay 1.45 percent of all earnings for Medicare’s Hospital Insurance Trust Fund."""