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Well, I crossed the Rubicon today (Original Post) Aviation Pro Jul 2025 OP
Me too, but we're all "Herberts" as seen on Star Trek... wcmagumba Jul 2025 #1
Damn that's a blast from the past Aviation Pro Jul 2025 #10
I have often thought of Trump popsdenver Jul 2025 #46
The Establishment has alsways been Herberts. I'm part of no Establishment. rickyhall Jul 2025 #58
Congratulations! LoisB Jul 2025 #2
Thank you Aviation Pro Jul 2025 #9
Ya Fuckin worthless Bum BOSSHOG Jul 2025 #3
Thanks BOSS Aviation Pro Jul 2025 #8
Now get out there and harvest some crops! tanyev Jul 2025 #4
Hee hee hee. That's what TSF envisions for us all after our first career. brush Jul 2025 #6
I'm pretty sure he doesn't know his ass from a hole-in-the-ground... BurnDoubt Jul 2025 #14
Think I'll stick around in my chosen profession for a bit before I have to hit the fields Aviation Pro Jul 2025 #7
Congrats malaise Jul 2025 #5
I was just put on disability in May so not only am I a worthless eater, I'm a worthless driver Cheezoholic Jul 2025 #11
Oh great. another one complicit in a big Ponzi Scheme. Marie Marie Jul 2025 #12
You and your employers invested it. Delmette2.0 Jul 2025 #38
Hey, I've been a freeloader for 14 years.. Permanut Jul 2025 #13
I Am Too MissouriDem47 Jul 2025 #49
may I ask how long ago you applied Skittles Jul 2025 #15
First available month, March Aviation Pro Jul 2025 #16
OK great, thanks Skittles Jul 2025 #18
Pretty much. A long-in-the-tooth taker. rubbersole Jul 2025 #17
I'll see your useless eater and raise you Warpy Jul 2025 #19
Good analysis! electric_blue68 Jul 2025 #31
Wellll Katcat Jul 2025 #20
Damn young 'uns. If it weren't for you people claiming the money at your age, us elderly folk Wonder Why Jul 2025 #21
Congrats!! 2naSalit Jul 2025 #22
At least it's not the Styx😂 TexLaProgressive Jul 2025 #23
Hah! - was going to say, Beware the Ides of March UTUSN Jul 2025 #64
Congratulations! But, Nature abhors a vacuum Marthe48 Jul 2025 #24
Not retired yet Aviation Pro Jul 2025 #28
Great way to fool Mother Nature! Marthe48 Jul 2025 #47
I'm on about my eighth. tavernier Jul 2025 #39
You are a bloated tick on the ass of society Stinky The Clown Jul 2025 #25
Congratulations! You earned it surfered Jul 2025 #26
Welcome to the club misanthrope Jul 2025 #27
Congratulations ol Bean.. welcome to Cha Jul 2025 #29
You'll get everything you pai into in about 7 years. underpants Jul 2025 #30
Congrats! electric_blue68 Jul 2025 #32
ive been drwing ss along w ss i for a while now . AllaN01Bear Jul 2025 #33
Welcome orangecrush Jul 2025 #34
It's a nice feeling! COL Mustard Jul 2025 #35
Finally broke into your savings account, eh? Think. Again. Jul 2025 #36
i heard there's some farm jobs that need fillin'. ret5hd Jul 2025 #37
I have been worthless bum for 15 years. nt doc03 Jul 2025 #40
AKA: czarjak Jul 2025 #41
What this country needs BOSSHOG Jul 2025 #42
I'm trying to remember how to say that Oeditpus Rex Jul 2025 #43
Congrats from another useless eater. GoodRaisin Jul 2025 #44
Gonna Be Me Next Month WiVoter Jul 2025 #45
Thirteen months until I join you. Ms. Toad Jul 2025 #48
About a month to go for me LSparkle Jul 2025 #50
I actually retired 3 years ago, and I've been on Medicare for 3 years. Ms. Toad Jul 2025 #62
Iʻd be really interested to know how you figured out whether to retire when you are able or when the payout is highest. mahina Jul 2025 #51
I took the amount I would begin to receive at full retirement (66 years 8 months) Aviation Pro Jul 2025 #59
Your deserve your social security.............welcome to the useless eater's club............. turbinetree Jul 2025 #52
You're only getting back what they've taken FROM you. The ones REALLY on the take B.See Jul 2025 #53
Well, then in that case, good luck taking Rome. Xavier Breath Jul 2025 #54
Today, I found $1250.01 gone from my savings account, the entire balance, Jack Valentino Jul 2025 #55
Been there for almost a year now. lees1975 Jul 2025 #56
Welcome to the club! lark Jul 2025 #57
Welcome!! mountain grammy Jul 2025 #60
My husband retired this month and next month we start medicste and he is starting his social security. kimbutgar Jul 2025 #61
May you be blessed to homegirl Jul 2025 #63
Welcome to the club Faux pas Jul 2025 #65
Welcome. traveler50 Jul 2025 #66
Congrats! No, it makes you someone who's earned it. calimary Jul 2025 #67

popsdenver

(1,985 posts)
46. I have often thought of Trump
Wed Jul 23, 2025, 08:46 PM
Jul 2025

and his CABAL as being of the opinion that they think they are the BORG.......

They and the entire Republican Party!

"Resistance if Futile"................

 

brush

(61,033 posts)
6. Hee hee hee. That's what TSF envisions for us all after our first career.
Wed Jul 23, 2025, 07:07 PM
Jul 2025

I'd like to see his fat ass out in the fields picking crops.

BurnDoubt

(1,596 posts)
14. I'm pretty sure he doesn't know his ass from a hole-in-the-ground...
Wed Jul 23, 2025, 07:23 PM
Jul 2025

let alone a Hamberder from a dirt-clod.
He'd definitely be FIRED! in the first twenty-minutes.
Now THERE"S a Useless Eater.

Aviation Pro

(15,387 posts)
7. Think I'll stick around in my chosen profession for a bit before I have to hit the fields
Wed Jul 23, 2025, 07:12 PM
Jul 2025

lol

Cheezoholic

(3,606 posts)
11. I was just put on disability in May so not only am I a worthless eater, I'm a worthless driver
Wed Jul 23, 2025, 07:18 PM
Jul 2025

that gets to park in the front row!!

Marie Marie

(11,107 posts)
12. Oh great. another one complicit in a big Ponzi Scheme.
Wed Jul 23, 2025, 07:18 PM
Jul 2025

Enjoy every penny of it - you've earned it.

rubbersole

(11,135 posts)
17. Pretty much. A long-in-the-tooth taker.
Wed Jul 23, 2025, 07:33 PM
Jul 2025

And I'm loving mine. No alarms, no boss and a good dog. Cruising.

Warpy

(114,525 posts)
19. I'll see your useless eater and raise you
Wed Jul 23, 2025, 07:48 PM
Jul 2025

by one capitalist parasite. My dad surprised me with enough to live on when he died.

However, you should feel about being a useless eater. Every bit of useless eating we do employs farmers, processors, truck drivers, warehouse people, office staff for all of this and grocery workers at the end. So have another helping and bottoms up. You're still contributing.

Wonder Why

(6,714 posts)
21. Damn young 'uns. If it weren't for you people claiming the money at your age, us elderly folk
Wed Jul 23, 2025, 08:00 PM
Jul 2025

would be able to suck it dry for a much longer time.

Marthe48

(22,912 posts)
24. Congratulations! But, Nature abhors a vacuum
Wed Jul 23, 2025, 08:07 PM
Jul 2025

As soon as the universe knows you have any free time, you'll get offers to fill it up


I'm on my 3rd retirement. I'm sure I'll be onto something else.

Aviation Pro

(15,387 posts)
28. Not retired yet
Wed Jul 23, 2025, 08:12 PM
Jul 2025

As long as my mental acuity and physical fitness holds out, I’ll be sticking around until my target retirement year in 2033.

Marthe48

(22,912 posts)
47. Great way to fool Mother Nature!
Wed Jul 23, 2025, 08:57 PM
Jul 2025

and get out of the system what you paid in. I bet you earned every penny.

tavernier

(14,401 posts)
39. I'm on about my eighth.
Wed Jul 23, 2025, 08:28 PM
Jul 2025

My friends call me CHER, and my boss pasted a photo of her on my locker at work. Every time I think I’m finished subbing, some thing happens and they call me back in. Now if I could just Turn Back Time, I wouldn’t need all that expensive collagen moisturizer.

Cha

(317,933 posts)
29. Congratulations ol Bean.. welcome to
Wed Jul 23, 2025, 08:14 PM
Jul 2025

receiving payback for what we've earned over the years.

underpants

(195,750 posts)
30. You'll get everything you pai into in about 7 years.
Wed Jul 23, 2025, 08:16 PM
Jul 2025

The single best retirement and anti-poverty plan ever created

COL Mustard

(8,090 posts)
35. It's a nice feeling!
Wed Jul 23, 2025, 08:21 PM
Jul 2025

I started a few months ago. Had wanted to hold out to 70 but I also wanted to start getting it before they screwed it all up. Glad I did!

 

Think. Again.

(22,456 posts)
36. Finally broke into your savings account, eh?
Wed Jul 23, 2025, 08:22 PM
Jul 2025

You've been saving money into that account for a long time, time to enjoy it a little.

 

Oeditpus Rex

(43,094 posts)
43. I'm trying to remember how to say that
Wed Jul 23, 2025, 08:39 PM
Jul 2025

the way Hitler did. "Eater" is "Esser," but I can't remember "useless."

(I know a guy named Esser. That's sorta weird.)

Anyway, I beat you by nine months. It's a semi-beautiful thing.

GoodRaisin

(10,823 posts)
44. Congrats from another useless eater.
Wed Jul 23, 2025, 08:42 PM
Jul 2025

Been eating for 10 years and hope to keep eating for the next 10.

Ms. Toad

(38,426 posts)
48. Thirteen months until I join you.
Wed Jul 23, 2025, 08:59 PM
Jul 2025

I'm waiting until 70, since I have family longevity on my side (both parents are nearly 94; the mother of one died at 93, the other at 101).

LSparkle

(12,155 posts)
50. About a month to go for me
Wed Jul 23, 2025, 09:19 PM
Jul 2025

I’d wanted to make it to 70 but after the election I knew I wouldn’t make it so I’ll be done just before Labor Day 😀. Already have received my first disbursement and Medicare card!

Ms. Toad

(38,426 posts)
62. I actually retired 3 years ago, and I've been on Medicare for 3 years.
Thu Jul 24, 2025, 10:29 AM
Jul 2025

I'm just not starting SS yet. I have a pension from my state employment (public high school teacher & University administrator/faculty), my spouse is already drawing SS (she's 5 years older - we probably should have started drawing hers at 65, since she doesn't have hereditary longevity), and we each had $30,000 annuities, so we're drawing those down so they will vanish about the time I hit 70.

mahina

(20,567 posts)
51. Iʻd be really interested to know how you figured out whether to retire when you are able or when the payout is highest.
Wed Jul 23, 2025, 09:28 PM
Jul 2025

Super confusing, for me anyway!

aloha Aviation Pro. You are nothing like useless!

Aviation Pro

(15,387 posts)
59. I took the amount I would begin to receive at full retirement (66 years 8 months)
Thu Jul 24, 2025, 09:42 AM
Jul 2025

And extended that out to age 70 when the full enhancement would kick in and then figured out how long it would take to reach the amount for 3 years and 4 months.

But it doesn't stop there because as I would have recovered the deficit in the first few years, the full retirement benefits would continue to be paid out (look at it as two steps forward, one step back situation).

Extrapolating that data, I wouldn't have caught up until 82 and it's not a given that I will last that long even given my commitment to a healthy lifestyle.

That drove my decision.

turbinetree

(27,301 posts)
52. Your deserve your social security.............welcome to the useless eater's club.............
Wed Jul 23, 2025, 09:35 PM
Jul 2025

B.See

(8,136 posts)
53. You're only getting back what they've taken FROM you. The ones REALLY on the take
Wed Jul 23, 2025, 09:35 PM
Jul 2025

are grifters like Trump and the wealthy tax dodging bstrds just LIKE him.

So enjoy every PENNY of it.

Jack Valentino

(4,724 posts)
55. Today, I found $1250.01 gone from my savings account, the entire balance,
Wed Jul 23, 2025, 11:41 PM
Jul 2025

due to a very old judgement for a credit card debt---

however, since Social Security income is exempt from such judgements,
and all the money came from there over the past 3 months,
after some research I have hopes of getting it back....

(and this was unusual--- I've had that old judgement hanging over my head for many years,
but it was for more money than I've had in my bank account---
there were several attempts to garnish money from my bank,
for the entire amount due, but my bank previously always rejected the attempts,
and returned them to the creditor as "funds not available"---)

but this morning, I found my entire savings account emptied, $1250.01...
which I was saving up to pay up back property taxes....

My checking account was not touched,
but I transferred a little too much money to savings,
trying to avoid spending and pay these back taxes....

I am looking into poverty-based legal representation, should it come to that
but I think my bank made a legal mistake allowing this



kimbutgar

(27,051 posts)
61. My husband retired this month and next month we start medicste and he is starting his social security.
Thu Jul 24, 2025, 10:16 AM
Jul 2025

I still like to work and want to collect at 70 ( hopefully ) it’ll still be there.

It was a nightmare signing up for these programs during the reign of terror of the OPP ( orange pedophile president)

homegirl

(1,947 posts)
63. May you be blessed to
Thu Jul 24, 2025, 12:01 PM
Jul 2025

receive your Earned Benefit for as long as I have. Began collecting at 62 and still receiving at 90!

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