Donald Trump warned Tuesday that if the Democrats don’t approve funding, there are dangers to the future of Social Security and Medicare.
Trump said at a press conference that when he asked Democrats for feedback on the funding bills, one said, “It means death.”
“There’s nothing about death,” Trump said. “Theirs is death because they’re going to lose Medicaid, they’re going to lose Social Security, they’re going to lose Medicare, all of those things are going to be gone because the whole country would be bankrupt, and you’re not going to have any kind of medical insurance.”
It’s not like it’s sitting there waiting for you to use. Every dollar you pay into SS just goes into the pocket of someone drawing SS. It’s a good system but not good if you plan to cut the program. Meaning millions will have paid in for nothing.
It will also destroy old people, since most need it to survive.
We didn’t “pay for nothing,” we contributed toward the well being of people in our communities that cannot work.
Jesus Christ people, it’s not always about you.
With the promise that we would be given the same benefit. We paid in Money most of us would need to invest in our own retirement had it not been going into that system.
People are allowed to feel cheated when they get cheated.
We did pay for nothing if the program gets cut. Sure we took care of old people, now what? I could have used that money for my own retirement. If the system is still in place then it wasn’t for nothing and you’ll be using the younger generations tax dollars for your retirement. So it’s not all about me, but if I don’t get the same benefit why pay in?
That’s the whole point of social security. Not social security for a certain generation tax
You paid for “social security”. It’s literally just right there in the name.
Yeah someone else’s. If the program gets cut then who is paying my social security? Oh yeah. No one. So it’s social security for a certain generation. I could have used that money for my own retirement, but if the programs cut it was social security for boomers and then alone lol.
It’s not “someone else’s,” it’s social security. It’s for the entire society.
Like you realize that the old lady down the road isn’t literally getting the exact same money that you put in, right? They are just numbers on paper. You pay into a fund that is used to benefit all of society. And it does.
Stop looking at it so selfishly and read about why FDR introduced it in the first place.
I wonder if this is partly why I see so much efforts whipping up one generation against the other. If you get zoomers all pissed off at some caricature of the boomers, they just might cheer at fucking over the old people (and their own future selves, too, but the anger will override the cognitive functions).
Gee, that sounds like a Ponzi scheme. Which I guess works fine as long as the population keeps growing and is forced to pay in.
Edit: not sure why I’m getting downvoted. I wasn’t saying it IS a Ponzi scheme. Just that it sounds like one. We often talk about social security as something we pay into to then get back later, but that’s not what it is. And the government has been spending the social security money like other revenue for a few decades. It’s just another tax now, like any other. And because population growth is slowing, I probably won’t get to benefit from it.
Wait til people learn about fractional banking 🫣