[Bullfrogg]

What are you going to say to that old woman
who is drawing SS from her dead husbands account?
Some of these people just have enough to pay a power bill
and medication, let alone food. So cut away at the very
subsistance say $950/month....no problem to you, right.
There are millions of old people in this pickle.

[Williams]

First, these cuts usually affect younger people not the current dependents.

Second, I would tell the old lady (if necessary to cut her benefit) that we don’t have the damn money because politicians spent it, that being the reality.

[Atlas Sneezed]

What are you going to say to that old woman
who is drawing SS from her dead husbands account?

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Tell her that her 65-year-old daughter is going to have to keep working until the system can pay her benefits without outlays exceeding revenues that year.

[kabar]

SS is unsustainable as currently structured. It has to be changed. In 1950 there were 16 workers for every retiree; today it is 3.3; and by 2030 it will be two.