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Message: <blockquote data-quote="vantexan" data-source="post: 3510292" data-attributes="member: 24302"><p>You are.  And don't think you'll get just a little more.  My mother gets about $800 a month.  She worked two and three jobs at a time in an area where there was little more than restaurant work.  You'll probably get close to the maximum.  That and your pension and your 401k will give you a nice retirement.  She only gets SS.  Plenty of people in her shoes.  And more and more with a service economy.  Do we just end it and put them all on the street?  I've spent a lot of time in Mexico and elsewhere.  Not uncommon to have 3 or 4 generations in the same household.  They honor their seniors there, and take care of them in their old age.  Not spit on them like angry young people often do here.  I shudder to think what this country would be like without SS.</p></blockquote><p></p>