Senators push for big change to Social Security to save the program

[crparrothead]

@kcflyer

We have a defense department that has asked for a 3/4 trillion increase from it’s $800 billion budget i

SQUIRREL!!!

[crparrothead]

@mcarley

Sounds great until you have to support those currently on the program.

You are already driving the Cadillac, why should the rest of us be stuck in a Yugo?

[mcarley]

@crparrothead

You are already driving the Cadillac, why should the rest of us be stuck in a Yugo?

If we’re going to get socialist, Corollas for everyone!

[mcarley]

@crparrothead

You are already driving the Cadillac, why should the rest of us be stuck in a Yugo?

My point is, any solution that involves diverting current money away should keep in mind where it’s going. You take our dollars out, the boomers are going to be screwed and boomers will never allow that.

[crparrothead]

@mcarley

any solution that involves diverting current money away should keep in mind where it’s going

Literally every solution potentially harms some demographic, but private accounts is the only solution that fixes the sytemic failures after that harm.

[Wintermute]

@mcarley

Sounds great until you have to support those currently on the program. SS is a pay as you go program. Current workers support current retirees. It’s not an investment program.

Why social security doesn’t work. You’re just explaining why we shouldn’t have it.

[crparrothead]

@kcflyer

Just pointing out that with all this talk of running out of money in 6 years hasn’t stopped us from spending moeny we don’t have TODAY.

And you can’t use purple waffles to shingle a utility shed in Oklahoma.

[mcarley]

@Wintermute

Why social security doesn’t work. You’re just explaining why we shouldn’t have it.

Tell your parents.

[crparrothead]

@mcarley

Tell your parents.

My parents have passed, but my in laws also have a Cadillac, my Father in Law retired from the Railroad.

[crparrothead]

@kcflyer

If we aren’t worried about spending money we dont’ have today, why are we so worried about money we will have for the next 6 years that we are spending

Two complete separate issues.
And if you would follow my position on this, we shouldn’t be “spending” money on Social Security.
It should be in private accounts that the Feds can’t touch.

[billinin]

@billinin

Nobody has said anything about imminent/impending death of Social Security has been predicted,

Payouts cannot continue at the current levels in about 6.5 years.

Math is hard.

@kcflyer

It sure is. We have a defense department that has asked for a 3/4 trillion increase from it’s $800 billion budget in just the first half of this year. The math says that we don’t have that much money, but somehow - we find a way.

I was staying on topic… SS.

You’re not… reply somewhere else.

[jimtoo]

@crparrothead

The use of the word “expert” to describe this twit is an affront to the English language.

I agree. I may have to start posting nonsense on youtube and getting followers.

[Sister]

@crparrothead

The use of the word “expert” to describe this twit is an affront to the English language.
17 minutes of pure, unadulterated, fact free drivel.

You skipped over this part..

Retired District Manager, Social Security Administration

I wouldn’t think his knowledge is drivel, but that’s me.

[Wintermute]

My mother doesn’t think it works either.

[Wintermute]

My mother receives a pension from GM, the state and something else. She also receives social security but feels the program is broke.

[kcflyer]

I deleted them. You’re welcome. They will only live on in the messages you quoted.

[crparrothead]

@Sister

Retired District Manager, Social Security Administration

That actually scares the living shit out of me!!

And all that really means is he knows how to manage payments.

[brobbs]

@crparrothead

And all that really means is he knows how to manage payments.

Government officials are often the worst class to consult as ‘experts,’ because their entire frame of mind is compromised by the deep state narratives that dominated their careers.

[crparrothead]

@brobbs

Government officials are often the worst class to consult as ‘experts

They are married to the bureaucracy

[kcflyer]

My daughter recently applied at KU Med (she didn’t take the job) but I was reading their benefits package. They offered what they called a 401A, where the employee automatically had 4% of their pay contributed to a retirement account and the hospital would contribute 3%. They also offered a secondary retirement plan (457). I can see more of these forced savings programs being created.