I am 81. I live among you. My wife and I receive Social Security. We are lucky in that it pays our bills. It is probably not enough to buy lunch at Mar-a-Lago for the president, Musk and others on a frequent $3,000,000 golf trip there.
I had my first Social Security deposit taken from my salary in a part-time job (there were many to follow) when I was 16. I continued paying for 50 years thereafter.
I always thought of it as guaranteed savings (or buying a share in America) and with my income tax payments an assurance of future federal government support and necessary services. It is my, and your, savings account. We all own shares in its $2.3 trillion balance.
At 23, I had my first full-time job as an FBI agent. In my early 30s, I opened my own business and learned I was investing double the money because I was depositing money (eventually 14%) as employer and employee.
Now to have a very bizarre acting, chain saw brandishing, potentially illegal immigrant say I am involved in a Ponzi scheme is beyond offensive.
When he calls for it to be privatized does that mean so he (who else?) can buy it and raid it? Now that is the start of a real conspiracy. I understand even Project 2025 only calls for raising the qualification age, a frequent event in the past, not privatization.
Arthur N. Eggers
Hesperus
