On 04/22/2018 10:21 PM, Douglas Lucas wrote:
I hate Ayn Rand but this frequently cited fact -- that she took social security payments -- is often cited to allegedly prove her hypocrisy. But her argument was, the government stole from her
It doesn't appear that she ever actually paid into the retirement system as a wage earner or by voluntary contribution. SSI is paid to impoverished people who never worked a day in their lives once they turn 65 for instance, or to people who drug/alcohol damage themselves, can't work, and never got enough quarters of work in to qualify for retirement benefits. My meager retirement check will be supplemented with SSI when I turn 65. According to FACT she took the money at the insistence of close acquaintances to keep her from going broke due to her medical bills. That's SSDI, again, NOT money derived for an individual's payment into the system. She was a welfare slut more than any Teenage Immigrant Welfare Mother On Drugs, who never had a chance to have best-seller books that must have made her millions. She was a hypocritical luzer, just like all Libertarians. Deluded, hypocritical, lying to themselves and others, luzers. Rr