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re: Mike Johnson is a clown
Posted on 6/19/26 at 9:49 pm to theballguy
Posted on 6/19/26 at 9:49 pm to theballguy
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We need to put the money back in the fund and make it untouchable.
Al Gore ran on this as his top priority. There was a budget surplus and Gore wanted it to be used to repay what they had taken out of Social Security and make it untouchable. He referred to it as a “lock box.”
Republicans ran on taking the money and doing tax cuts for the wealthy.
G W Bush won, and we went deep into deficit spending, that has continued to this day.
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Posted on 6/19/26 at 9:50 pm to Scoper
He’s also as gay as Scott Bessent and everybody can see it.
Posted on 6/19/26 at 9:58 pm to CrystalPreserves
Masculinity and femininity are hugely important factors in electing Democrats, there are certainly no openly gay or transgender representatives!!
Posted on 6/19/26 at 10:27 pm to Scoper
I wish they'd stop taking that out of my paycheck and let me invest it myself.
Posted on 6/19/26 at 10:48 pm to Scoper
Screw that, cut defense spending, cut welfare spending, cut every department before you start on SS, why because they have wasted money on everything you can think of. So know, I use to be raise the age but after seeing how much these R's and D's hate just normal americans, screw that, don't raise my age start cutting some shet.
Posted on 6/19/26 at 10:51 pm to bamalee
Trump wants to increase defense spending by 500 billion a year
Good luck with that idea
We need to drastically decrease defense spending
Good luck with that idea
We need to drastically decrease defense spending
Posted on 6/19/26 at 10:55 pm to Powerman
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We need to find a way to fund it
Or how about we get the government out of retirement and let individuals do it themselves?
Posted on 6/19/26 at 10:57 pm to BayouBengal51
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This. Give me all the money back they have stolen from me for a fund that won't be around when I retire so I can invest it myself and triple it.
Agree. It's a fricking Ponzi scheme. Force hard working Americans to pay into it for decades, then, when it comes time for them to collect, try to screw them out of the money they're owed. I don't care what they do with the system, but the fricking Federal Government sure as hell better refund me every last penny I put in since I was 16 years old.
Posted on 6/19/26 at 11:00 pm to Scoper
End income taxes and let people do what they want with the extra.
Posted on 6/19/26 at 11:10 pm to Powerman
I’m not opposed to defense cutting per se, but it’s simply not a major budget buster at this point. In fact, as a percentage pf gdp, it is at near historic lows
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defense spending has in fact declined from half of all federal spending in 1962 to just 13 percent this year. Since the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, inflation-adjusted defense spending has expanded by only $166 billion—compared to entitlement program spending leaping by $2.6 trillion (after inflation). As a share of the economy, defense spending has been halved since the 1980s, falling from 6 to 3 percent of GDP. Moreover, the Congressional Budget Office projects defense spending will fall below 2.5 percent within three decades—the lowest share of the GDP since the 1930s. At that point, defense would consume just 9 percent of federal spending.
Posted on 6/19/26 at 11:27 pm to TBoy
Bush wanted to let you be able to invest yourself instead of paying social security, but you chose to leave that out of your ramble
Posted on 6/19/26 at 11:33 pm to Rip Torner
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No you don’t but Republicans are inept at best and it’s likely intentional because they hate Power
FIFY
Posted on 6/20/26 at 12:13 am to SallysHuman
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It wasn’t meant to last 20-30years.
It eats 12.4% of your income over your entire working life, for most people. In 1937, it was 2% of your first $3000.
You shouldn't ever talk about what it was to do without talking about how much it eats now vs what it ate in 1937.
Everyone would be better off if that money went into an IRA.
Posted on 6/20/26 at 12:19 am to CharlesUFarley
We have enough waste, fraud and abuse to cover the shortfall.
Posted on 6/20/26 at 1:11 am to HailHailtoMichigan!
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The only alternative to raising the retirement age is to increase payroll taxes
Or the third rail of means testing...
Posted on 6/20/26 at 6:30 am to Obtuse1
A hard line crack down on all the fraud and there's plenty of money to fund it
Posted on 6/20/26 at 6:40 am to SallysHuman
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It wasn’t meant to last 20-30years.
You sure about that? Would 10 years be a reasonable amount?
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The average life expectancy for a US male at birth was 76.5 years in 2024, according to the most recent CDC data.
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For anyone born in 1960 or later, the Full Retirement Age is 67.
This post was edited on 6/20/26 at 6:59 am
Posted on 6/20/26 at 6:52 am to Scoper
Look at this millenial who doesn’t want to work
Boomer politicians work valiantly into their 90s all the time but you soft kids complain about having to work at the Amazon warehouse until 80
Boomer politicians work valiantly into their 90s all the time but you soft kids complain about having to work at the Amazon warehouse until 80
Posted on 6/20/26 at 7:07 am to Scoper
More and more people are starting to take SS at 62 as a way to grandfather themselves into the system before the inevitable changes happen. Anyone born after 1973ish is going to see greatly reduced benefits compared to what Boomers have been getting.
Posted on 6/20/26 at 7:11 am to GreatLakesTiger24
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It has to happen. Simple as that.
Unfortunately, this is true. SS is only expected to account for about 25% of your retirement income. If you haven't saved much along the way, well...you better live frugally.
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