--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > In a message dated 1/22/06 4:21:27 P.M. Central Standard Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > Any U.S. citizen who is low/no income qualifies for SSI at age 65, > regardless of work history/pay-ins to Social Security. Anybody who > is a permanent legal resident (not a U.S. citizen) qualifies for SSI > with only 40 quarters of Social Security pay-in work history: > > > > No wonder the system is going broke. >
The system cannot and will not go broke. Why? Because the government holds the right to tax...AND raise the amount of SS contributions anytime they damn well please. So they can fund the program fully any time it appears to be faltering. It may interest you to know that at the time that FDR pushed SS into law back in 1935 there was a big hue and cry from many quarters. At the time, the contribution into SS was about 1.5%. Roosevelt promised it would NEVER, EVER go up. Well, today, the combined employee/employer SS contribution is 12.4%! Of course it won't go broke! Those bastards in Washington will just keep raising the contribution amount! ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
