Social Security won’t be able to pay full benefits by 2034. Now there’s renewed pressure on Congress to come up with a fix

CNBC ^ | 09/05/2021 | Lorie Konish

[SeekAndFind]

Yep. And there's also talk to LOWER Medicare eligibility to age 60.

And oh yeah, Bernie Sanders and AOC disagree with the above. They want MEDICARE FOR ALL ( including illegals ).

We are so screwed. These people keep getting re-elected.

[lightman]

I thought COVID was the “fix”.

/s

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The “Social Security Trust Fund” is a bunch of IOUs written by the District of Criminals.

[Reily]

It’s hard to beat Santa Claus economic thinking !

[Lurkinanloomin]

We have 5 trillion plus for Porkopalooza bills, but not for this?

[dragnet2]

[ProtectOurFreedom]

“Come up with a fix”?

That’s a laugh. I’ve heard that every year of my adult life and I just turned 70.

With Biden blowing the budget sky-high everywhere you look, there is no way workers are going to tolerate higher SS taxes.

The “fix” will be to just print more money, send inflation soaring, give SS recipients a 1% or 2% “raise” and tell them they are lucky to get that.

[Williams]

Spending an extra 4.3 trillion on other stuff is probably not the way to go.

[SeekAndFind]

Comedy aside, Al Gore might have been right...

[dragnet2]

Wait till we start hearing numbers in the zillions.

[DIRTYSECRET]

I’m 66. Just gimme back what I put in-NOW! Then just leave me alone. In fact just go to hell tomorrow!

[Trillian]

I was going to post the same thing.

[elpadre]

The proper fix is to keep all of the SS revenues in a separate account and NOT place it in the general fund to pay for everything else.

[Sicon]

Simple: just print more money. I mean, it’s worked so well to counter the economic destruction created by the government’s “COVID” stupidity and tyranny...

[dragnet2]

That’s right, put full blow 427s powering those printing presses. Get um smoken!

[SeekAndFind]

RE: Simple: just print more money.

Yep, that worked so well in hyperinflation Germany



It also worked great in Zimbabwe:

[TrumpisRight]

All they need to do is PAY-BACK the money they “borrowed” from Social Security over the years. PUT IT BACK!!

[Secret Agent Man]

The current death shots are the fix.

[Billthedrill]

As it was before Clinton got his filthy hands on it.

[ridesthemiles]

The VACCINES are the “FIX”. By then, the SS recipients will be about 1/2.