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Many of you Republicans are resigned to accept a dismal fate for Social Security, because your chief media source has been telling you that SS will be broke in years to come. You are young now, and can't imagine a day that you won't be able to get up early in the morning and go to work. But it will happen. Think about that. You are going to need Social Security.
So, with a straight face you claim that many Republicans are young? The reason they don't care is many of them are already getting theirs.
I don't want SS to end and by "fight" I assume you mean vote. I always do.
Social Security is one of the most successful government programs in history.
Fear mongering my ass. The billionaires who bankroll the republican party demand the weakening of anything that gave the public a break during the Depression.
Just give me my money back and I'll be responsible for myself.
There is nothing to get back, because unfortunately that money is gone and redistributed elsewhere once robbed from your paycheck. Pretty good scam if you can get it.
Many of you Republicans are resigned to accept a dismal fate for Social Security, because your chief media source has been telling you that SS will be broke in years to come.
I assume by "chief media source" you're referring to the Trustees of the Social Security and Medicare programs, who issue a report every single year and have been warning of exactly that for years now? SS expenditures have exceeded the payroll taxes collected since 2010.
1) To echo Frank, nobody "paid into" anything. You paid a tax that immediately went to funding the FICA contributions of that day. If you doubt that, go the www.ssa.gov website and check their Fleming v Nestor page. It explains it all.
2) The program was designed unsustainable, same as every other Ponzi scheme in existence. At some point, to keep the program going, it was always going to have to have painful (to expected recipients) changes made.
Those two things said - the Republicans are feckless cowards who want to buy your vote same as the Democrats, therefore, they aren't going to do anything with Socialist Security or Mediwelfare other than slightly increase how much we spend on it and then kick that can down the road for another Congressional cycle. Everything beyond that simple reality is simply not going to happen.
For example, examine 2005. In the election of 2004, one of Dubyah's big reelection goals/promises was reforming SS/MC. After the election, he spent most of Nov-Dec 2004 talking about "spending his political capital" and all that. Guess who shut his plans down? Hint - it wasn't the Democrats. They didn't need to lift a finger to see the Ryan-Sununu-Kemp plan get crushed in committee and the media, because the GOP did all the work for them. Every single time anyone gets near those two programs, the GOP are the vanguard of defending it and then increasing it somehow in some pathetic virtue signaling attempt.
So stop this ridiculous nonsense. If you want people to vote Democrat, just say that - vote Democrat. No need to spin absurd fairy tales to scare people into it.
The Feds took SS out of my paycheck for 40+ years …. they are going to have a hard time if they decide to keep it.
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