Is Social Security A Good Investment?

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Originally Posted by joeydb

Worth a read:
http://www.inmessment.com/finance/is...w-the-numbers/

Could you do better with your contrib- er- confiscated money?

Too bad Social Security isn't an investment program. It's stupid to try and compare apples and oranges, don't you think?

You make me laugh, Joey. You are handing the people that want to kick you off your Social Security Disability Insurance the hard-heeled boot to do just that.

Tell me - how would you be doing, today, living off just the profit of your hard work in your lifetime, with no Social Security disability to help you?

Your personal retirement fund right now is at least 5-7% of your lifetime income, right? You know - the percentage of income people should save, that you have saved, minus any Social Security percentage you have contributed? You've been completely diligent about saving that, surely, the way you bemoan we all contribute so seniors don't die in poverty (what a terrible societal decision THAT was, huh? How horrid a society are we, do protect our seniors?)

Better plan for being without that SSDI now, as long as you are going to try so hard to elect them and get that accomplished.