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Toxic words

During this election year, we are destined to hear many words that are toxic in the way they misrepresent reality and substitute fantasies that can win votes. One of these words is "entitlement."

Hmmmm....some good points, but dammit! I better get my "entitlement" ;) I spoke with my financial planner a few weeks ago and asked about his thoughts about the solvency of the SSA and his thoughts are that it will be OK for the time being.

Lookup Flemming v. Nestor. In this case the Supreme Court said that the government has no legal contractual obligation to pay anyone SS benefits no matter how much they paid in taxes. This decision was in 1960 and was never rescinded. It doesn't matter how solvent the program is the government can cutoff anyone they chose at any time.