BodeMiller1
Well-known member
It is way too easy to get medical Social Security payments. This was supposed to be for people who COULD NOT work. Now it's more like well... I always kind of like sitting home and watching cartoons. If you trick your way into getting paid early, you're committing yourself to a lifetime of poverty.A couple of the key issues that have certainly affected SS over time, is when it was 1st implemented. the average lifespans were much shorter, and as such, the amount of time people were drawing from SS was less on average than it is today, Essentially more people were paying more into it than they ultimately were receiving, so the numbers worked.
Now 1 of the things that has happened is that people are living longer on average, and as such drawing from SS for a greater amount of time, which means that more people are receiving more $$ for SS than they paid into it.
Another issue, and it is an issue, is that it is now much "easier" to be granted SS payments for a medical disability than it was in the past, and as such, that it putting more people on SS, and even at a much younger age, than used to be, which often creates more people drawing more from SS than they ever paid in. That is just a fact, and not an emotionally based observation, and with the financial hardship that SS is facing, some albeit tough, adult, factual based decisions need to be made, and done soon, and frankly the biggest impetus to that is emotionally based, ideologically driven politicians who seem to think that the monies that we pay in in various forms of taxes is just their slush fund to use to get re-elected and not something that they truthfully have to exercise fiduciary responsibility over
At the end of the day, you snooze you lose.