Since I am one of the producers of this country, I have been paying tens of thousands of dollars into these programs. I don't expect to get back even 25% of what I put in, correcting for inflation. Of course, I will try to minimize the impact of this theft by collecting what I can.
If you want to call getting a small fraction back of a system I paid into "taking advantage", then, yes, I'll be "taking advantage" of these programs. How I wish I could choose not to have "taken advantage" of them all these years. I could retire much earlier.
Of course, even the small fraction I expect to get back is contigent upon the system not collapsing before I start collecting. Actually, I wish it would.
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Date: 2004-10-26 06:54 pm (UTC)Since I am one of the producers of this country, I have been paying tens of thousands of dollars into these programs. I don't expect to get back even 25% of what I put in, correcting for inflation. Of course, I will try to minimize the impact of this theft by collecting what I can.
If you want to call getting a small fraction back of a system I paid into "taking advantage", then, yes, I'll be "taking advantage" of these programs. How I wish I could choose not to have "taken advantage" of them all these years. I could retire much earlier.
Of course, even the small fraction I expect to get back is contigent upon the system not collapsing before I start collecting. Actually, I wish it would.