A good friend was buried recently and talk turned to the fact that he would never realize his dream which was to retire and do a little farming and run a few cows. He owned his farm outright but lived in town near his job, never married, no children only heirs are his elderly Mother and one sister. This man was a Vietnam veteran, worked for 45 years, most of those years worked at two jobs, he got off his day job at 5 pm and worked at the last full service filling station in our area from 6-11, six days per week. He paid Social Security all those years, he never drew a nickel of that money, even if you forget about interest and forget about the share his employer paid how is it not theft that the portion he paid in his self is forfeit? His Mother or sister will never see a penny of that money and you can multiply this example by tens of thousands per year. Some might say that is the bargain but is it? People are forced to pay in Social Security, no one is given any contract to agree to. I have paid the maximum in for over 30 years, roughly $165,000 that I have no control over, double if you count my employers share.