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.”

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      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.

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        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.