re: Will there be social unrest when monthly social security checks are cut by 22% in 2032?

People on social security are usually too old to protest.

Exactly.

Labeling it an entitlement is just the government's way making you think they are "giving" you something. Some gullible people accept everything the government says, and dont bother to use basic thinking skills to discern the differences.

Here's a list of government entitlement programs:



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TL: DR. Every program is an entitlement program

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Social Security (OASDI): Provides monthly benefits

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bullshite!
The only "benefits" SS provides are to Uncle Sam.
There are no benefits for the vast vast vast majority of lifelong contributors. None! Zip!

Think of it this way, if you walk into a financial advisor's office as a 22 yr old newly employed worker, and tell him you want to invest 12.4% of every paycheck into a retirement fund, would he put you, 100%, into 30-yr US Treasuries?

No?
Why not?

Because at retirement, 45yrs later, every $1 invested would have generated ~$3.60. Had the same money been invested in an S&P ETF with dividends renvested, that same $1 would be worth >$100.00. So the SS ""benefit"" cost the "beneficiary" about $96.40 for every $1 initially invested.

It's actually worse, BTW. SS ROI consistently underperforms 30-yr Treasuries!!

Some benefit!

Yeah, that's pretty obvious.




All the posters in here referencing "ya will collect mo dan you payed in" failed remedial math.

Gee, I wonder what Presidents he worked under and if they tried to take his advice?

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Gee, I wonder what Presidents he worked under and if they tried to take his advice?

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RR, GHWB, WJC, GWB
N/A, no, no, yes

Careful...



Facts hurt feelings.

DJT oughta try it again.

He doesn't care about poll numbers and he isnt going to be re-elected.

It comes down to this:

The only shot at any chance of reform is a Republican majority in both houses, with a Republican President.

And that isn't a guarantee, even then.

Unfortunately, by the time Gen X and Y figure this out, they'll be Boomer-aged and in the minority.

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DJT oughta try it again.

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If he doesn't poll good before the midterms, it might come up