Well It's true. Here is a mentor of mine in the Gold and metals markets that got what he paid for at 70+ in age.

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"It's true the Labor Department consumer price index is not to be believed. They've been fudging the numbers for years. Even so we Social Security recipients still get annual adjustments - puny as they are. My take went up 2.3 percent in 2008.

I didn't sign up for Social Security until I was 70. My first monthly check paid me back everything I had put into the system between 1946 and January, 1961. (Not adjusted for inflation, but startling just the same!)

To show how this was possible; When Karen and Kathy were born I was paying the maximum FICA tax...$54.00 per year. When David was born I was still paying the max, which had gone up to $94.00 per year. It was not until 1959 anybody paid over $100.00 a year in FICA taxes.

Well, the years have passed and I have now got back every dime my employers and I put into the Social Security system, adjusted for inflation, and I am now living directly out of YOUR pocket. Thank you! Please know I am not wasting your money on wine, women and song but am living a prudent life.

But seriously...and to get to your point....I don't blame the masses for being oblivious to what's being done to them. The relationship between money and man is confusing even before the politicians get at it with their smoke and mirrors. I think if we can keep hammering on the fundamentals of money a significant number of people may start asking the questions that will lead to action. Most revoloutions were born amidst monetary chaos, or - in the case of the US - the perception of unfair taxation. I say BRING IT ON! ~JW"

I know it's not much but it did pan out for one of us.

KOHR Mann