To the Editor:
All seniors or those approaching retirement in the near future, please take note.
Just recently I became aware that in 1960 the Supreme Court ruled in the Flemming v. Nestor case that the government has no legal, contractual obligation to pay us back our Social Security contributions. I had heard that the Social Security system was almost depleted of funds because there are many seniors living beyond the expected ages. That is only part of the story. The truth is that Washington politicians have spent our funds for pork barrel spending for their own states … looting Social Security benefits to the point that Trustees now predict full benefit payments are close to the point where they must be reduced.
Is that fair to those of us who worked our entire lives paying into a system that we thought would honor our commitment to hard work and return the mandated payments from every paycheck over the course of our lives?
There is an organization called 60 Plus which is building nationwide public pressure on Congress to pass the Social Security Guarantee Act (H.R. 521) into law quickly. Once passed, this law would immediately prohibit politicians from cutting the amount of your full Social Security benefits. To pass this law, I urge all concerned citizens to write letters or call your congressmen to support this act, write a letter to your paper’s editor as I have done, register to vote and encourage your friends and neighbors to vote, and share this information with seniors in your community.
–Blanch Nutting, Charlestown, NH
