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Don A in Pennsultucky's avatar

Social Security is a major part of my family income but not all of it. Thankfully, I have been receiving payments since I turned 66 and was still employed so I stashed it away in a money market account at the local credit union. I also have a private pension which is not as large as it could have been because I took a chunk of it out and paid off the mortgage so now I only have to be concerned with taxes. (And upkeep of course.) I started my SS account when I was 16 and I don't recall ever being upset about the fairly small chunk of my income that it saved away for me along with a similar amount paid in by my employers over the years.

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Katharine Hill's avatar

Thanks, Don A., first of all for being a faithful reader but also for your insightful comment. I actually waited until I was 70 to collect so I get quite a nice amount. And Medicare has been very good for my healthcare. Hangin’ tough is our motto!

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Roberto Lopez's avatar

Try to save some money, cause they planning to cut the Social Security.

We will end up with the universal "basic" income,so Save as much as you can 👌✌️✊

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Katharine Hill's avatar

Good advice, Roberto. I really know how to pinch pennies and will continue to do so. But having paid into FICA all my working life, he’d better not touch my money!

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Roberto Lopez's avatar

the largest transfer of wealth from the working class and middle class to the super-rich”

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Roberto Lopez's avatar

@Katherine Hill

the largest transfer of wealth from the working class and middle class to the super-rich”

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Roberto Lopez's avatar

Good luck

Katherine Hill🙏

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Katharine Hill's avatar

Thanks, Roberto. I just read your post about Digital ID, and it is chilling. We do have to be careful about our footprint —Katharine

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Roberto Lopez's avatar

Thank you for reading

Katherine Hill🙏

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Roberto Lopez's avatar

But "Trump" and the satanic mafia are doing whatever they want without consecuenses.

We have to resist all this "mafia"

that are planning the

the Biggest transfer of money in the world.

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Roberto Lopez's avatar

@Frances Leader

Try to save some money, cause they planning to cut the Social Security.

We will end up with the universal "basic" income,so Save as much as you can 👌✌️✊

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Roberto Lopez's avatar

@Katherine Hill

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Dr.Don Hall's avatar

Resist Ignorance! Resist False Superiority. Resist False Allegiance. Resist False Health”Care”. Resist “CrowdThink”. Then maybe, you can sleep at night…and live to fight another day.

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Katharine Hill's avatar

I’m sleeping very well every night, Don. I’m not quite sure why you read my post or what your message is but we each have to make our own sense of life.

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