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re: Nikki Haley Says It’s Time to Raise the Retirement Age to Reflect on Life Expectancy
Posted on 11/15/23 at 11:28 am to Auburn1968
Posted on 11/15/23 at 11:28 am to Auburn1968
I've got no particular affinity for Nikki Haley, but the fact that so many of you willful idiots cannot understand that this is the kind of thing an actual adult running for president would say frightens me.
If she were bitching about sending a tiny fraction of the money we spend on SS and Medicare to Ukraine or worse, Israel, ya'll would be applauding, but she's talking about two federal programs that comprise almost half of the federal budget and that is insolvent. For those of you for whom that word is too big, that means if no one changes something about it, it's going to collapse anyway under the weight of its own financial burden. And if the idiots in D.C. let that happen, it's going to take the US economy with it, and I'm not just talking about higher inflation. And we're not talking about 40 or 50 years from now, we're talking about 8-10 years if her data is correct. And even if it's not, it's going to be close to being correct. This isn't climate change we're talking about.
If you're not going to raise the age at which people become eligible for those programs, what's the solution?
If she were bitching about sending a tiny fraction of the money we spend on SS and Medicare to Ukraine or worse, Israel, ya'll would be applauding, but she's talking about two federal programs that comprise almost half of the federal budget and that is insolvent. For those of you for whom that word is too big, that means if no one changes something about it, it's going to collapse anyway under the weight of its own financial burden. And if the idiots in D.C. let that happen, it's going to take the US economy with it, and I'm not just talking about higher inflation. And we're not talking about 40 or 50 years from now, we're talking about 8-10 years if her data is correct. And even if it's not, it's going to be close to being correct. This isn't climate change we're talking about.
If you're not going to raise the age at which people become eligible for those programs, what's the solution?
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Posted on 11/15/23 at 11:31 am to wackatimesthree
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the fact that so many of you willful idiots cannot understand that this is the kind of thing an actual adult running for president would say frightens me.
Yes. This one thing is the problem.
This is a Lindsay Graham federal abortion law moment for Nikki Haley. It's not an adult decision. It's throwing the fight.
Posted on 11/15/23 at 11:36 am to wackatimesthree
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but the fact that so many of you willful idiots cannot understand that this is the kind of thing an actual adult running for president would say frightens me.
Adults likely better understand that there are various complicated dynamics at play.
Posted on 11/15/23 at 12:46 pm to wackatimesthree
These fricktards here just want candidates to say, “frick you liberals!” They don’t have the slightest care about policy improvements! They will scream, “the liberals let this default happen by allowing in non-payers.” And that is true. But they don’t care about a solution that might work. They’d cry about the problem until it was unsurmountable. Then cry that the problem IS insurmountable.
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