Posted on 10/18/2022 1:56:02 PM PDT by NeverCheney
ya think??
AFAIK Social Security has always been a fund separate from the national debt.
https://www.ssa.gov/history/InternetMyths2.html
Q1. Which political party took Social Security from the independent trust fund and put it into the general fund so that Congress could spend it?
A1: There has never been any change in the way the Social Security program is financed or the way that Social Security payroll taxes are used by the federal government. The Social Security Trust Fund was created in 1939 as part of the Amendments enacted in that year. From its inception, the Trust Fund has always worked the same way. The Social Security Trust Fund has never been “put into the general fund of the government.”
Most likely this question comes from a confusion between the financing of the Social Security program and the way the Social Security Trust Fund is treated in federal budget accounting. Starting in 1969 (due to action by the Johnson Administration in 1968) the transactions to the Trust Fund were included in what is known as the “unified budget.” This means that every function of the federal government is included in a single budget. This is sometimes described by saying that the Social Security Trust Funds are “on-budget.” This budget treatment of the Social Security Trust Fund continued until 1990 when the Trust Funds were again taken “off-budget.” This means only that they are shown as a separate account in the federal budget. But whether the Trust Funds are “on-budget” or “off-budget” is primarily a question of accounting practices—it has no effect on the actual operations of the Trust Fund itself.
“There you go again,” Uncle Ronald Reagan.
Anytime anywhere if the democrats are about to be defeated ….. this is the story the media runs with ….
October surprise fake news to suppress the red wave.
Which party took out money from Medicare to pay for Obamacare?
From the old Dem playbook. Republicans want to take away your SS and Medicare. It is brought up every election cycle for decades.
Just waiting for the video of Grandma in her wheel chair being shoved over a cliff.
LMAO
must be near an election!!!
because once again Republican boogiemen are going to end social security, medicare, Medicaid, and usually the civil rights act so we can enslave the blacks again.
LMAO
Bingo.
This is a lie meant to fire up Seniors right before the midterms, IMO it shows the Democrats are desperate by throwing out this issue because nothing else is working.
I’ve not heard a single Republican mention anything about Social Security.
“But we CAN afford foreign aid and billions for Ukraine.”
Don’t forget the illegals that are on SS>
Yeah That’s exactly the purpose of this “revelation”
Such liars and cheats on the other side and “media”
The hatred I have for them is indescribable
“ NON discretionary Transfer Payments is 3/4 of the Federal budget.”
The ENTIRE federal Bridget is transfer payments. The transfer tax dollars or borrowed money or fee-printed money , to interests that Congress decides on. Billions for foreign aid is one of the transfers. Trillions for weapons manufacturers and military bases in at-peace countries all around the world , is another. A multi-trillion dollar defense budget and we couldn’t stop 12 Saudi hijacker’s with box cutters
But there’s no money for Americas Elderly. Social Security must be cut
One reason I voted for Trump is he rejected this GOP stupidity. He said the NATO countries that fully fund their own Social Security and Medical programs shouldn’t be susidized by US taxpayers footing the bill for NATO while having to cut their own Social Security. For taking this position, Trump got ousted by the Deep State including the GOPe
Next: Granny has to eat cat food! Wait......Democrats already did that ad years ago......just before an election.
“Republicans Plan to Use Debt Limit Leverage to Reduce Social Security, Medicare: Report”
indeed ... and the GOP will start a nuclear war with russia ... and after that they’ll nationalize all the oil companies, and mandate dried crickets for breakfast ...
the Democrats are totally desperate and are now willing to tell any and all conceivable lies in attacking the GOP ...
after all, the Dems can’t run on their platform of nationwide shortages, nationwide inflation, doubled food costs, shortages of diapers and baby formula, tripled gasoline costs, outlawing ICE and diesel engines, raising taxes, inflating the currency, censoring their enemies, weaponizing the DoJ to persecute and put their political enemies in jail ...
MediScare; the Dems trot this out for every single election. It’s a staple of their playbook.
The best way to save SS is to just pretend everything is just peachy and let ‘er roll!
The Four Horsemen of the A-crock-olypse:
Elections. October. Democrats. Mediscare.
They do this every damn election cycle. Every time since I’ve been aware of politics and I’m knocking on 70.
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