Social security is a welfare program. And like any welfare program the amount that it pays out,and indeed whether the program continues at all, is determined by the whims of the political class.
Looks to me like the social security welfare recipients are no longer as important to the political class. Sucks to be them.
But keep voting. By all means don’t stop playing the suckers game of the political class.
“Social security is a welfare program.”
You don’t pay in to a welfare program. This is a trust fund that has been raided by Congress many times. The big raid came under Johnson to pay for his welfare program, the Great Society. Social Security is also being used to pay people that are not seniors. We have been paying in to Social Security for over a half century.