86M full-time private-sector workers sustain 148M benefit takers

Bonfire of the Absurdities: After 35 year career writing software for IBM mainframes, am now self-employed contractor thinking of joining a union and striking for higher wages. Cured morbid fear of heights when I learned to look at them as lengths standing on end. Uncompromising in refusal to accept browser cookies. Amateur investor who has accumulated a small fortune in the market after starting out years ago with a large one. For recreation, I run, hike, kayak and play tennis but will not consider synchronized swimming under any circumstances.

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  • No wonder I had to pay so Damn much in taxes this year!!!!! I am supporting some retarded occupooper and paying for San Fluke's birth control...And I can't even claim this losers as dependents....

  • As it was predicted, the takers have far out paced the makers. Soon the makers are going to tell the takers to go to hell and screw you. Those of us who have worked our entire lives will be forced to accept the fact that our SSN will be far less as the dim wits are giving our money away to the lazy, and the illegal. John Smith of Jamestown had the right idea. You don't work, you don't eat.

    If you have a TRUE need, by all means, you should be looked after. If you are too damn lazy or gaming the system, then nothing for you and you should be left to fend for yourself.