Posted on 02/23/2025 9:03:18 PM PST by RomanSoldier19
Elon Musk: "If we don't solve the deficit, there won't be money for medical care, there won't be money for social security ... it's gotta be solved or there's no medical care, there's no social security, there's no nothing. It's gotta be solved. It's not optional ... that's why I'm here."
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If Trump were to fire 1 million government workers, they still wouldn’t be at the level before 2008. Thanks Obama for the last 15 years of Government gone mad.
“If Trump were to fire 1 million government workers, they still wouldn’t be at the level before 2008.”
Obama was buying votes by putting individuals on the payroll...the employees’ votes, plus their families’ votes.
McConnell and Ryan also forced it on us.
Democrats used govt jobs as a stealth form of welfare, based on the demographics hired.
Social Security and Medicare is where the cuts must be made, drastic cuts but that will doom any party that does it...
No.
As a 83 year old senior.. I say NO!!
And as a mother of a disabled daughter I say NO!
Those illegals that have been getting it YES!
I’d argue if the waste and fraud are removed from the picture, SS and medicare should be just fine.
“Social Security and Medicare is where the cuts must be made, drastic cuts but that will doom any party that does it...”
Drastic cuts to the fraud. There’s way overwhelming enough once they cut out all the fraudster. After that, everyone will be able to retire at age 60 with a 20% larger check.
Throughout history a nation or culture that habitually squanders its resources evententually ceases to exist. Akin to an individual who has a productive job but spends his salary on drugs and gambling. Soon that productive individual soon ceases to exist.
Economics at its core is a study of human behavior. When a nation embraces neo pagan hedonistic decadence, it becomes less productive. In a democracy leaders seek to please voters and maintain their corporal pleasures and needs. They borrow as much as they can and begin unproductive programs that drive the nation into corrosive debt. Fraud prevails.
If somehow Trump and Elon Musk can reverse this process then they will truly save the nation and democracy.
Social Security Gets Major $205-Billion Boost After COVID Deaths
https://www.newsweek.com/social-security-205-billion-boost-covid-deaths-doge-2034951
Gee ..I started saying that ten years ago
We could save almost a trillion just by cutting our military spending to what Russia spends on their’s.
Cutting out all the waste and fraud will take care of funding SS and Medicare.
bttt
I suspect not as many draw it like little old ladies who never worked and drawing off their former husbands which ran out years ago...
Define disabled, many are on SSI that could work but refuse...
An idea has been brought up that many of the younger folks up to the folks in the late 40’s will be offered a lump sum for SS payouts, in other words when they hit 70 plus they get an untaxed lump sum payout of X dollars and if that runs out then they will have to go on Welfare. Problem with that is you have vast numbers of mostly old ladies who were stay at home wife’s who draw off their husbands and it is proven that SS runs out in most cases years earlier and I do not think the younger generations will want to pay to support them.
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