On Sep 15, 2010, at 1:13 PM, richard lo piccolo wrote: > who abhor social security[like rep. t. walberg] have parents? > did their parents abstain from SSI benefits? do they contribute to the SSI > kitty?
The US Senate (and to a smaller degree, the US House of Representatives) is largely a millionaire's club. <http://tinyurl.com/2g6gz6u> Their Congressional salaries alone ($174,000 per annum) put them above 95% of US households... <http://tinyurl.com/2v5gv54> Data is from 2004, but isn't far off. By and large they do not know, nor do they associate with people not in their class, so naturally they view themselves as "middle class". If every one of your peers is like this, and every one else you know in private industry is making more, it's not at all surprising that you start thinking in terms like "Well, you know, Mom only gets a piddly twelve grand a year from Social Security, she'll never miss it!" (The average retired worker in 2009 earned $1,168 per month in SSI payments. <http://tinyurl.com/39q7jcz>) For a single person this is barely above poverty level: <http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/poverty/data/threshld/thresh09.html> And some of them are sociopaths, pure and simple. They got theirs, Jack, so fuck off. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "StrataList-OT" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/stratalist-ot?hl=en.
