re: Now Social Security could be depleted this decade

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An old timer here & am not embarrassed at all to finally be getting BACK my money that was taken out of my paychecks for 50 + yrs.What does piss me off is that Congress has its own, lots better, retirement program & those politicians could care less about both the mandatory payroll deductions & viability of SS in the future. They also have their own ,lots better, health plan.

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I've calculated the SS money the wife and myself have paid in over 40 years and our employers match....if we had that money invested in a simple mutual fund for 40 years containing a mix of stocks in the S&P 500 we would be easily in the 3-4% of the wealthiest Americans.