So he ran away, like a total coward.
Oh, like the boys in the Billionaire Roth IRA club?
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Yup. Those ones exactly.
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Mind. Blown.
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Credit where credit is due - I stole requisitioned this from a post in a previous thread. Sadly, no record of who but I’m happy to pass it on…
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And for the record, the first recipient of Social Security had contributed to the system for all of three years and paid in a grand total of $22.54. Once she filed for Social Security retirement, she received a total of $22,888.92 over her remaining 35 years. Because that’s what she was entitled to, because that’s how the system works.
Source:
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Not anymore. You have to have 40 qualifying quarter of work, 10 years, in order to be eligible for SS or Medicare these days, unless you qualify with a disability.
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Oh they’ll find him, guaranteed. This happened in Sherbrooke, Quebec and yes they have their vax denialists, but the vast majority are just about done with this sort of shit so somebody’s going to dob him in and they’ll throw the book at him… 
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Think arresting him and charging him with assault may be more effective, but Canadians will do what Canadians do…
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Fair enough, but I meant to convey that once the system was implemented they didn’t make everyone wait 10 years before starting payouts. Nobody kvetched about Ida May “ripping off the system”, she got what she was entitled to, as do today’s recipients.
On that note, I’m actually pretty pissed that they are regularly raising the official retirement age at which you get “full benefits”. In my case it’s 66 years and two months, it’s even higher for my younger siblings. This is yet another example of implicitly raising taxes rather than letting Americans share in the increased wealth over the past thirty years or so - adjusted for inflation, most workers have had zero gain in income over that time, it’s all flowed to those who’ve bought and paid for the system, accomkplished by allowing them to bust up unions, export production offshore and turning a blide eye to companies that employ undocumented workers. There’s are several things driving the TFG phenomenon - this one is an actual legitimate grievance…
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No, they didn’t, but they probably would have had they started over, that’s why we ended up with that, only works if everyone is pitching in, having full freeloaders pop into the system will cause problems over time.
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Hey, they not only hit you with the book, they make you read it in both official languages!
People don’t realize just how brutal those Canadians can be… 
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Because we can’t afford to give Manchin a reason to be pissed off enough to flip parties. Unlike Sinema, who’s a relative newcomer, Manchin’s been in the Senate for a decade, spent the 5 years prior to that as Governor of WV, and has been active in WV politics since 1986.
Manchin is in no danger in WV, no matter what anyone tries to tell the locals. They know who he is, and they approve of him. If you want to pressure someone, you’ve gotta have leverage, and where Manchin’s concerned, we ain’t got none.
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Can’t someone just buy him some alone time in a hotel room with an underage prostitute already and film the damned thing for kompromat…
Sorry to hear about your mother.
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Of course. Back to the “you’d be perfectly healthy if you just ate good vegan food”, with no acknowledgement of the roles of genetics or environmental factors or anything else in risk factors for disease.
No wonder folks are fed up enough to do the occasional Capitol invasion.
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I suspect they did. SS pays all the benefits out of current revenues. If, at the end of the year, there’s some left over, they buy bonds or other gov’t securities and mark it in the surplus ledger. The excess cash goes into the general gov’t account for current expenditures. Later, if they run short some year, they pay what they can then subtract the extra amount needed to meet their obligations from the surplus ledger, then hand the bill for that amount to Treasury to pay out of the general account. The main thing is that the separate ledger is maintained without any cheating.
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Those same ads are running non-stop here in Arizona, in support of Sinema’s faux “centrist’s” bullshit.
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If the debt ceiling thing was really an economy-ending event like some say it will be then you’d think a few more Wall St types would be in the Congressional offices pointing pistols at so-called lawmakers. I don’t think that’s happening. The overall lack of a sense of urgency is… interesting.
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