Posted on 01/28/2023 7:41:42 AM PST by 6thavenue
Edited on 01/28/2023 9:04:42 AM PST by Jim Robinson. [history]
Bloomberg
Disagree on the claim that people can’t take out more than they put in. I’ve run the numbers they certainly can if they live long enough. Even the original designers knew that could happen. They just didn’t think there would be large numbers of people doing it like there are now. People are living longer, my parents lived into their late 90s. I remember Dad telling me in a wry humor that he’d hit the SS crossover point. He was now robbing the system!
There’s a way to reform the system, set it up on a sound financial basis and have no one’s monthly check effected. It’s just hard to do politically. The Rats will demagogue any attempt to do so. After all its their flagship program, something the love to brag about. How dare any one think it’s not perfect. FDR is a grand deity of the left like JFK only more so.
Politics is a strange business
You might just be a purist which means you’ll never be happy or get anything of what you want
I don’t know about Desanctimonius but the Repukes generally would absolutely destroy social security and rob the people who have put money into if given the chance. It’s not really debatable anymore. The Repukes do not care about the people and they use “conservatism” as an excuse to hand money to their friends.
Social Security is already destroyed. It’s just a matter of time. Doing nothing about it guarantees there will be civil unrest at some point in the future when the checks stop coming. The cruel reality is those refusing to do anything about it are the ones who don’t care.
I voted for Trump twice and I would do it again but the fact is HE signed the spending bill that allowed those Republicans to hand money out to their friends.
One President who wants to do the right thing (which is what we had with Trump...to the point of shutting the government down for a month while taking arrows from both sides) is nothing in the face of 85 Senators who haven’t found a need to limit spending in 20-40 years
Where is your numbers analysis, if any, that excludes CMS outlay cuts from a solution that credibly solves the problem?
Actually hot air...
I call myself an American...how about you???
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