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In reply to the discussion: On the fourth Wednesday of every month, [View all]Hortensis
(58,785 posts)Ruling it unconstitutional would be followed by privatization, each participant receiving pennies on the dollar from the fund compared to what'd be lost in 25-35 years of monthly retirement checks, followed by most investing in private "safe" investment funds set up for that purpose, followed under a RW faux democracy by theft by thousands of cuts, fees for everything including deposits, of course, but also losses from market changes. The very wealthy arrange to make money when markets go up AND when they down, and try to arrange both.
And of course seizures of accounts whenever deaths aren't preceded by dotting all the i's and crossing all the t's.
Regarding that last, we know an ex-wife and a widow who both lost their husband's handsome pension when he remarried right after divorcing his wife of 30 years and then died less than 3 months after that. Neither were legally entitled to inherit the pension. Not the one who shared with her husband their investment in staying with the company and growing the pension, because they'd divorced. Not the new wife because of small print meant to cut her out if he died before a certain amount of time passed.