Social Security beneficiaries will rue O’Malley’s arrival | READER COMMENTARY

Social Security recipients had better brace themselves for bad news if former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley’s past techniques and his caring for the “working people” are any indication of how he will “oversee” Social Security. Maryland’s retired state employees have already pointed out how O’Malley destroyed their prescription drug plan benefits (“Will O’Malley fail SSA beneficiaries like he failed retired state workers?” Dec. 27).

Maryland state workers toiled for 30, 40 and even 50 years, often receiving no pay increases, lengthening of the work week (from 35.5 hours to 40) and paying more into their retirement system to guarantee their health benefits only to have O’Malley slide a clause into an obscure piece of legislation to take their prescription drug plan away.

Social Security was supposed to be a non-taxed source of income for seniors. Now it is taxed and is deemed an entitlement program, like food stamps, because Congress spent the “dedicated” fund!

Don’t be fooled!

— Tom S. Wendel, Lewes, Delaware

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