If u do it will be a very reduced amount and long after I retire. Our country is broke spending more than they have it won't last it's unsustainable.

Have you seen some fo the proposals they are floating ro shore it up? Like if your wealthy you won't be eligible to receive funds. OK so who and what will be considered wealthy? Save and invest your entire life live below your means to do so and pay in the max a year into ss just under the point they quit taking it out of your check and nope none for you or here I'd your 20% of what you were slated to get and you can't get anything tell your 75 if they raise the age again.

so what's considered wealthy having 900k 1 million 2 mill 15 mill? Will that be net worth or money invested/ in the bank.

Don't worry they will collapse markets and country with the things like raising capital gains and the unrealized capital gains crap . When people pull out of the US markets and stop investing becues ther is no point the country will fail.

The wealthy man is healthy, fit and confident in his skills.

Did a little research on you.Came to the conclusion...You live on Government checks,,,while bashing working folks for wanting a raise.Hyprocrite much?

P.F. I like your optimism.

A dispatcher over here did 5 loads today.
Normal was 30 a day.

That's awesome.

Friend of mine passed away on Saturday of an apparent heart attack or stroke.he was 63 and was going to wait till 65 to collect social security was a hard worker sheriff's deputy and farmed with quite a few beef cattle.not married and no kids where is his social security going?

To Haitian migrants^

Tru dat!

I like that.

In NE, Soc Sec says if you get $1200 a month you're good enough. If you work to make more, they reduce your SS. Who here makes it on $1200 a month?

Me. I may be alone.

"We use the following earnings limits to reduce your benefits:

If you are under full retirement age for the entire year, we deduct $1 from your benefit payments for every $2 you earn above the annual limit.
For 2024 that limit is $22,320.

In the year you reach full retirement age, we deduct $1 in benefits for every $3 you earn above a different limit, but we only count earnings before the month you reach your full retirement age."

Source: SSA

Thems are the rules if you start drawing before your full retirement age

If those rules weren't in place social security would already be bankrupt.

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1200 a month before taxes would barely pay the insurance and tax man.

It's not what you make income wise as much as what your priorities are and how disciplined you are with it.

re: inflation: they should look in the mirror for the blame...they supported Biden and his reckless spending.

Avoid my question much oh embarrassed one??

It's a combination.

Yes. Live within your means. Agreed.

upstate,

I have several sources of income.

not sure why any of them would disqualify me from commenting.