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MEANS TO AN END 1 of 2

Means Testing is a fancy term for being screwed out of your retirement.  You are being Tested to see if you have the Means to provide for yourself.  As much as I make fun of Q-Tips, laughing at them as they sit on a phone book to see over the dashboard, their Depends giving them either an extra inch or three depending if the thing is full or not, moving to Arizona or Florida to get warm, then blasting their AC to cool down to the point of wearing a sweater inside, giving them no sympathy since they paid one third the withholding tax I did and are getting huge Social Security checks while I’ll pay for 47 years and get nothing, and yet even then I kind of feel bad about how some of them are going to get screwed.  By Means Testing.  As I’ve pointed out before, waaaaay back in the 1950’s, just a few years after we were forced into FDR’s crappy retirement Ponzi scheme and the system was doing fabulous financially, the Supreme Court ( the same douche bags who keep questioning the Constitutional validity of the Constitution ) wasting no time in declaring that Social Security was in fact an entitlement program and retirees actually had no right to it.  The FedGov could declare it null and void on a whim.  The reason they haven’t done so is because they have always acted as if the withholdings for the program was indeed an entitlement to themselves.  As long as the government got more in than it paid out, it didn’t give Two Flying Humps if the program had any stability.  So make no mistake, as soon as paying Grandma and Grandpa to freeze in Florida next to a golf course becomes just a wee bit burdensome to the asswhores, the first step before outright cancellation will be means testing to drastically cut down the number of recipients. 

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Got another government retirement check?  You don’t need Social Security.  Got savings in the bank?  Whatever the amount is, it is divided by your potential monthly stipend and you are denied a check for that many months ( at the end of that time, you must apply again, and good luck now that you have no savings ).  Receiving any other government service?  The full market value of that is added to your assets/income.  Own your own home?  The fair market value of its rental is potential income, with Section Eight housing counted as your rental cost ( where you stay while renting your house ), the difference being counted against you ( example: 1200 sq. feet rental is $1200.  Section 8 apartments for two, 500 sq ft is $50 based on your present income.  Your potential income, whether anyone can afford to rent your home without any jobs in the area, is $1150 and considered an asset.  You don’t need a government check if you can make $1150 a month ).  More next article.

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