Ok, thanks.
We’re talking lifetime with a lot of assumptions (reasonable).
But one of the main points is that the military retirees are being singled out here by this administration. Note that they aren’t going after the civil service or other gov’t folks.
I harbor little hope (lord I have come to loathe that word) about what my future or our son’s future holds any longer. SS, military retirement, etc. I’m working to not have to count on them.
“SS, military retirement, etc. I’m working to not have to count on them.”
If they are going to be there, we have to radically reduce our government size and spending immediately.
I don’t think that is going to happen. You are wise to work to not count on promises from government.
This is an education process. More people have to understand that whatever they expect from government, they will have to make do with a lot less - because not doing so will mean they get nothing.
Nobody, not the GOP, not democrats, not any politician will discuss what you and I just discussed rationally.
Somebody needs to start explaining how we get out of this mess - or start rationalizing how we simply collapse everything and start over.