DougR, I am saying that the taxpayers paid for your health care while you were working. I am saying that since the funding for the agencies that you worked for came at least in part from the taxpayers, that means that the taxpayers paid for your health care and they paid into your Social Security and Medicare accounts so you could collect on those programs now.

If it wasn't from the federal funding that these things were paid, then where did the money that paid your salary and benefits come from? How were the monies allocated?