Republicans going to refund all the money workers paid into “govt. handouts” like social security and medicare all their working lives? Didn’t think so. The politicians will consider all the money paid into those programs by workers as belonging to the politicians.
No one paid into a "gov't handout", we (and you) pay in to a "fund" alleged and purported to be a quasi retirement "fund".
It was Lyndon Johnson who "took it out of that fund" and called it "general fund" thus making it available for politicians to use as they wish for the "operation of the country"
Because of THAT, our SS checks come from the money collected from your last week's paycheck.
No work, no workers, no workers, no SS funds, no SS funds, a ton of pissed off, armed old geezers whom are one foot in the grave don't give a shit ready to do damage and really not too particular whom they direct that damage to except it will be "gov't"
You do realize those “programs” you mentioned were created by democrats.
Republicans going to refund all the money workers paid into “govt. handouts” like social security and medicare all their working lives? Didn’t think so. The politicians will consider all the money paid into those programs by workers as belonging to the politicians.
Actually I don’t want my SS back. I’m fine with it. Thanks to the thieves at the Federal Reserve and their QE 1,2,3 and zero interest rates intended to spur more debt and investment with the casino hucksters of Wall St, it now takes a million dollars to provide a risk free fixed income stream equal to what Social Security provides for many who have worked hard.
I personally would opt out of giving these weasels of Wall St my Social Security account. The most important thing America needs now are honest politicians that know about ethics and honesty and are not beholden to crooks.
I agree I’m not fine with politicians using SS trust and what I and others have paid into, so they can use it to wage their off balance sheet wars, run the Dept of Education, give welfare to global corporatists & others too lazy to work, and make Section 8 landlords rich. I tried to get the name of every Section 8 landlord and recipient in my community and HUD refuses to provide it. The government checkbook register should be an open book.
The system is corrupted so that only cronies of politicians are rewarded while we others are stuck paying.
Try responding to something actually in the article next time.