I hope Jean L. Baker will not feel slighted, but I will ignore her suggestion that I take a ”yuppie” to lunch in appreciation of the Social Security benefits I am receiving.
Like most of today`s seniors, I began paying Social Security taxes in 1936, and paid them every year, with the exception of the four years in the early `40s when I was off defending her right to put ill-advised, uninformed opinions on paper for general publication.
I really don`t feel like a freeloader. On the contrary, I would have liked to have the money I paid to the system for almost 50 years invested in my own managed retirement fund. I would be living much better today and wouldn`t have to shoulder the guilt of depriving some poor option or commodity trader of the Social Security tax he pays to support my ostentatious lifestyle.
