Opinion
He calculated $1.2 million (and that didn’t include the employer’s contribution). If I just retired on the interest at 4 percent I could have drawn $48,000 each year and left the $1.2 million to my children and grandchildren when I died.
But, instead, when I retired on Social Security I was paid $480 per month, as I recall.
Rick Perry is wrong; Social Security is no Ponzi scheme; it’s far worse. It’s outright robbery. The government took away most of my retirement and gave it to themselves and other people who didn’t earn it.
Randy Ridgel lives in Kelseyville, Calif.
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Campaign finance was the only way to free legislators from being slaves to their campaign funds. Now, corporations and the very rich can emulate their peers in third world countries and buy influence.
Lobbyists did it to a certain extent, but now that there is no limit to donations, the money is too good not to indulge.
Once again, we are allowing ourselves to be distracted by rhetoric and labeling.
The Tea Party declared that the national debt is the No. 1 problem, and we allowed them to distract us from the actual number one problem, jobs.
People cannot pay taxes without jobs. There is no stimulus as good as one that gives money to the poor and middle class, as they spend it to live, and then to enjoy while concurrently reseeding the general economy.
Unemployed workers must still feed their families, and most will do almost anything to keep a roof overhead. What kind of environment do we want to raise our families in? One where compassion and inclusion rule, or the Law of the Jungle?
Dave Gebhard lives in Lakeport, Calif.
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