Posted on 06/15/2024 8:54:57 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
If the .gov had started a mass advertising campaign featuring health officials and doctors and nurses explaining that cigarettes were safe and effective—and required that all school children smoke or be expelled from school...they could have kept Social Security humming along with lots of young dead bodies...
Lol.
I did the same. Made sure when I retired everything, House car, credit cards, were paid off.
I did OK during the Obama and Trump years, now I am struggling thanks to Biden. Saw an item I often buy at the grocery store. $8.99 a few years ago. Now $13.99. I decided I really don’t need it.
***All benefits to illegals need to stop with no exceptions.***
True. I read on another web site that illegals are receiving more per month from the government than I am receiving from Social Security and retirement check.
But not Welfare
That is true. They will simply pay with inflated dollars that won’t be worth a nickel.........
These people have to be elected so they can’t even do that. Inflation will go higher as they print more money to pay for SS, but they will be forced to keep raising SS to account for that. It is a vicious cycle that can’t be escaped but is inevitable due to how a Democracy works.
The people that will be most harmed are the young people who will fall further behind, while the old vote themselves the treasury.
yeah they could back up age like you suggested, but those at or near retirement will be grandfathered.
Basically if you are over 50 now you have nothing to worry about.
If those taxes would have been saved, invested, and utilized for ONLY the purpose they were designated for, there would be no problem. Technically, it may not be a Ponzi scheme, but it’s a Ponzi scheme.
When do the politicians start following the laws again? We have a President (sorta) who is ignoring the USSC ruling about student loan forgiveness. We have an Attorney General who is ignoring a subpoena, and now a Contempt of Congress charge.
You have the various witch hunts and kangaroo impeachments and trials against the real President Trump. The impeachments were a farce about nothing. The first one even included the bogus Steel Dossier presented by the FBI to the FISA judges. A number of laws ignored there. The second impeachment was laughable about a phone call.
It also goes on and on down ticket. "Already law"? With respect, we lost that paradigm many years back. Now we just print more money and/or let our so-called representatives slide, depending who has the majority at the time.
Sorry, don't mean to lecture. Having read your posts for years, I'm sure you are aware of all of the above. Just wanted to point out to the lessor informed that the "law" is no longer the bulwark against lawlessness it once was.
“Sorry, don’t mean to lecture. Having read your posts for years, I’m sure you are aware of all of the above. Just wanted to point out to the lessor informed that the “law” is no longer the bulwark against lawlessness it once was.”
Thanks, and the reason that the laws no longer work as written is that they are generally designed to work on the population of the country as it exists when the laws are written. When that population changes, and the voting then reflects those changes, the laws have to be QUICKLY UPDATED or they’ll lose effectiveness (at least when the population gets more ‘diversified’). A perfect example is the lack of laws against squatting - they weren’t needed until we reached a certain level of ‘diversification’, now they’re needed throughout the country.
Yeah
Very well written. That's why the Dem/Socialists/Communists want to amend or repeal certain Amendments and possibly the Constitution in whole. It was written when most men had the integrity and understanding to obey laws.
RE: Our $33 trillion debt will cause the financial collapse of our nation…
As of today, June 16, 2024, the current US government debt is estimated to be around $34.68 trillion. This information is constantly updated, so the exact figure will be even higher tomorrow.
They should be talking about cuts to payments for baby mamas raising feral kids who loot and destroy.
Question:
If you have never worked to contribute into the SSA system. Can you still receive SSA benefits in some form? I am not talking about survivor benefits through marriage or being offspring! Zero in but you’re taking out! It was never clear to me if that can happen. I know all it would take is the snap of a sufficient number of politician fingers to make it happen. Has it already happened?
PAYING OUT FROM TODAY’S PAYROLLS IS EXACTLY HOW SS HAS BEEN FUNDED FOR YEARS.
THERE IS NO LOCK BOX.
NEVER HAS BEEN.
$$$$ GOES INTO THE GENERAL FUND.
But one figure that stands out on Joe and Jill Biden’s Form 1040 is line 5a, where Social Security benefits received is reported. In 2018 – the most recent tax filing that Biden made available as part of his presidential campaign – the couple received $49,545 from Social Security.
If that is true (which it obviously is not), SS benefits would not be the only things being cut.
But more money to Ukraine, everywhere, more to buy votes for Biden via paying their loans...
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