Re: Interesting comments

From: kathycarp (kathycarp_at_comcast.net)
Date: 10/13/04 

Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 14:42:48 -0700

Did she ever work in the U.S.? If she did, she paid in, just like us.
Or perhaps she is collecting through her husband's work? 

-- 
Kathy
www.ambergriscaye.com/villadelsol
"Susan Mitchell" <readthemessage@nobody.com> wrote in message 
news:b3hbd.175489$wV.110835@attbi_s54...
> I'm just a little disgruntled that my neighbor (who is a Korean wife to a
> non-military but American man) lives here and brought her mom over who is
> receiving Social Security.  I still want to know how she can get Social
> Security.  Whose SS is she collecting pray tell?
>
> --
> Sue -- Firefighter mom -- Still Rabid UW Dawg Fan!
> (to reply send to medlawtrans@comcast.net)
> "Jeannie H Wilson" <jeanniehwilson@aol.comnonospam> wrote in message
> news:20041013165729.21613.00002146@mb-m10.aol.com...
>> >With the deficit he is continuing and will continue to run up we will
> have
>> >no Social Security when I'm ready for it and I have paid into it since I
> was
>> >17!  Collecting Social Security is not Welfare.  That's your money.  IF
>> >you're self-employed as most of us are, that is all our money.
>>
>> I have been told since I was about 18 that there will be no social
> security
>> benefits for me when my agegroup is going to retire.  I don't think it is
>> something that George Jr racked up on his own or something that he
> "invented"
>> I look at my SS taxes as supporting the people who helped support me.  My
>> grandparents are getting that money, as are many other people who 
>> wouldn't
> be
>> able to survive without it.  Rather than be sour grapes about it, I 
>> choose
> to
>> look at the people it is benefiting now and be happy that I could at 
>> least
> be a
>> part of that.
>
>

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