re: The Coming Social Security Crisis

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What they fail to mention is the tremendous strain people who have never contributed a dime to, but collect from social security.

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^ This. There are a few older ladies in our community who never worked a lick, but are drawing their dead husband's Social Security. My father and mother both worked their whole damn lives, and my mother draws her Social Security, but can't draw my father's. What's the difference? Either those women shouldn't get anything, or my mother should also get my father's as well as her's since he paid it in. So, my father's SS goes to support others, but can't help supplement my mother's income? If those other women who didn't work "deserve"what their husbands paid it, then don't punish my mother for working for 40 damn years. Stupid.