We should definitely get rid of Social Security. I agree.
Why?
It's just another Ponzi scheme run by the feds to siphon money away from your paycheck.
"You wanna kill grandma?!!!"
My paycheck was forcibly siphoned off for this fund for almost 50 years with the govt promise of "it's okay, trust us, we will be giving you your money back to you plus interest". Now it's getting close to time for me to get it back, with interest. This was a contract between employees and the US Govt in which we had no say in the matter.
The politicians have played with inflation numbers, SS payments (in buying power) have diminished significantly through the years because annual increases never kept up with real inflation. They have gimmicked every angle and if Dems remain in power you will see them use it to further divide young vs old.
Blame the corrupt politicians for being unable to resist stealing it for their pet projects, giving it away to those who never paid into it, leaving nothing in the fund but a pile of US Govt IOUs for the next generations to pay. If they had never touched it, the fund would be solvent for many more decades.
Understood. You paid in and now you want to be paid. Believe me, I get it.
Yes, a forced investment of sorts. An official contract with the US Govt. And the politicians siphoned off every penny they felt entitled to from my paycheck before I got mine, every week. They raised the rate of that siphon every few years to help to hide the gaping hole they created when spending those funds on their pet projects, claiming threats of illiquidity within X years if they didn't. Yes, I've been through it all. Then, in my 50s they inevitably changed that contract, surprise! Retirement age for me went from 65 to 67. Two more years of paying in and 2 less years collecting from it. Evil fuckers. I never did dig in to see if that change was even legal. Not like you get a written copy of the contract when you enter at working age. Now they are trimming life expectancy in the US through crappy food, misdirected food pyramids, poisonous vaccines, unnecessary medications, lab created disease, fentanyl and other drugs, sadistic doctors, oppression and depression ... and likely a hundred more ways I am not yet aware of.
I don't see politicians demanding we fortify SS, instead a clamoring of let's send Ukraine another $60B!!! Yes, well past time to cut foreign aid and to settle our debt at home so Americans get some relief for a change.
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