Reply #6: Help him? This guy's bankrupting social security!

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Okay, sarcasm off. This is one of those people that social security helps. He will clearly take in more from the system than he'll ever put in, but we as a people have chosen to set up our system of government benefits and entitlements to help folks like Mr. Salonich. Does that make him a leech on our society? There are surely folks who would say so -- fortunately, not too many of them are here at DU.

But keep Mr. Salonich and his family in mind when the uninformed prating of the haves which will be flooding the airwaves in the next few months tries to persuade you that social security and government assistance programs are massive failures, designed to rob decent working people of their hard-earned money to be given to a bunch of slothful and lazy parasites.

Then send ten bucks to the UMass credit union.