Today March 14, 2014, if nothing changes, this is what social security will provide if you start contributing when you are 20 years old, work 45 years at $100,000.00 per year. The total contribution to your social security account that you and your employer contribute is 15% over 45 years. That is $15,000 (approx.) per year times the 45 years. The result is $675,000.00. The maximum you can collect if you contribute the maximum amount possible for the 45 years is $2,400 per month (approx.) which is $28,800.00 per year. If you are fortunate enough to live 20 years after you retire you will recoup benefits for 20 years times $28,800 per year. A total of 576,000.00. The government keeps almost $100,000.00 of your money. Great deal, isn’t it? Great investors, aren’t they? Bernie Madoff was a piker.
Added to Gab. January 18, 2023.
Added to GETTR. January 18, 2023.
Added to Locals. January 18, 2023.
Added to Truth Social. January 18, 2023.
It struck me that the result from the effort to rid the past of the history of slavery now may come to the perfect ending with the elimination of a past problem that doesn't exist now. That itself deserves the "Go figure" award.
SG - Free Thought - [Locals] - [July 2026]
Gab: July 24, 2026.
GETTR: July 24, 2026.
Locals: July 24, 2026.
Truth Social: July 24, 2026.
X: July 24, 2026.
Many threads of wisdom flow freely, constantly or is it just reality like that expressed in lyrics in the Simon & Garfunkel song, "The Boxer" wherein stated: "All lies in jest when a man hears what he wants to hear and forgets all the rest". So, history is guided to the next round of mental boxing. With others sometimes?
OPINION
Credits: Recorded at Columbia Studio's, Nashville. Roy Halee producer, VEVO.
SG - Free Thought - [Locals] - [July 2026]
Gab: July 23, 2026.
GETTR: July 23, 2026.
Locals: July 23, 2026.
Truth Social: July 23, 2026.
X: July 23, 2026.
