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re: Social Security and Medicare need to be eliminated
Posted on 2/20/26 at 8:05 am to TIGERHOLD
Posted on 2/20/26 at 8:05 am to TIGERHOLD
you being poor gives me an erection!
i've paid into social security since i was 16, i've paid the maximum into the system since i was 26. not that you'll ever know but you stop paying into social security when you make 176k a year and that number goes up about 13k per year, so here's what you're gonna do ellie may. you're gonna get your a*s out on that corner and go make my social security money biotch!
i've paid into social security since i was 16, i've paid the maximum into the system since i was 26. not that you'll ever know but you stop paying into social security when you make 176k a year and that number goes up about 13k per year, so here's what you're gonna do ellie may. you're gonna get your a*s out on that corner and go make my social security money biotch!
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Posted on 2/20/26 at 8:06 am to pirate75
quote:ideally but we are already fricked on that part. right now I would be fine with just the money in so I can use/invest it as I wish
This, plus interest.
Posted on 2/20/26 at 8:07 am to TIGERHOLD
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Social Security and Medicare need to be eliminated
When all benefits and payouts of any kind are eliminated for non-citizens we can talk. But that needs to be done first.
Posted on 2/20/26 at 8:08 am to SuperSaint
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congrats he has been funding the boomers lifestyle.
They paid into it, too.
Sure, it's a fustercluck... but citizens have been forced to contribute for over 89 years to social security and over 60 years to medicare/medicaid. You can't "blame boomers" for this.
Posted on 2/20/26 at 8:08 am to TIGERHOLD
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That’s a small share of the pie. Programs like SNAP and WIC are pennies compared to Medicare and Social Security
While I’m not for completely doing away with SS without money plus interest being returned to those who have already paid in, it’s amazing (and sad) that a pure factual statement like yours above is “downvoted” 5-1.
Posted on 2/20/26 at 8:09 am to TIGERHOLD
Ah yes, lets throw our seniors out in the streets and let them die... You know, the people who paid taxes, social security and helped build economic growth.. We don't need them anymore, why not...
This post was edited on 2/20/26 at 8:14 am
Posted on 2/20/26 at 8:09 am to CleverUserName
quote:that
Fine. As long as I get my contributions back with interest. And let's not forget the employer contributions.
money
is
gone
I’ve been paying into the system for over 25 years and would celebrate if they announced today that SS and Medicare was completely shut down.
Good riddance to the contributions I made to the broken system. As long as I know my three young kids won’t have to have their labor stolen to fund these programs.
Posted on 2/20/26 at 8:09 am to SallysHuman
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You could post it if you wanted to.
LOL.
It's MY responsibility to educate idiots before they make stupid statements here about which they obviously know nothing?
I don't think so.
I have posted the numbers plenty of times and it does absolutely no good whatsoever. Unless/until people who say things like that decide to investigate for themselves it's useless. Honestly I think most of them do know the truth. I think they know and they post stuff like that anyway.
Because, you know, populism.
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Other than that... what happens to what people have been forced to pay into it? My husband still works and has payed into it (and pension, then 401k) for 31 years... what happens to that if it stops now?
I never said it should stop now. All I said is that "stop foreign aid" (which is around 1.5% of the federal budget at the very, very most...most years it's less than 1%) and "stop welfare" (which is around 7% of the federal budget unless you include benefits to veterans) is an asinine response.
You're talking about less than 10% of what we spend.
That's all. I don't know what we're going to do about SS/Medicare/Medicaid.
I just know that the populist talking points on the subject are ridiculous.
Posted on 2/20/26 at 8:10 am to TIGERHOLD
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Buy your own insurance like the rest of us have to. Perhaps without unlimited Medicare, the market would respond by bringing prices back to earth
You do know that putting seniors into Medicare is perhaps the greatest subrogation of risk that health insurers have, other than pre-existing conditions and maximum annual cost, but those were removed by Obamacare.
Just imagine if that risk were to be absorbed by non seniors….it would not be pretty.
Posted on 2/20/26 at 8:11 am to TIGERHOLD
The problem is not so much Medicare as a concept.
The problem is that government fricks up everything it touches.
The problem is that government fricks up everything it touches.
Posted on 2/20/26 at 8:11 am to Hangover Haven
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lets throw our seniors out in the streets and let them dye
Now how are the boomers going to continue to make tie-dyed shirts if you throw them out in the streets?
Good grief.
Posted on 2/20/26 at 8:11 am to TIGERHOLD
As soon as you reimburse me the nearly $360,000 I have paid into the system, they can abolish it.
Posted on 2/20/26 at 8:11 am to wackatimesthree
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You're talking about less than 10% of what we spend. That's all. I don't know what we're going to do about SS/Medicare/Medicaid.
Gotcha!
Posted on 2/20/26 at 8:11 am to TIGERHOLD
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Social Security and Medicare need to be eliminated
IDK understand why this is even an issue under current monetary and fiscal policy.
SS and Medicare is steadily being decrease and you don't even realize it.
Posted on 2/20/26 at 8:12 am to TIGERHOLD
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Remember, you boomers had everything handed to you and you pissed it all away in the 60s and 70s with Vietnam protests, drugs, and let’s not forget the 30% abortion rate of the late 70s and early 80s.
You do realize there's still many Greatest and Silent Generation citizens on SSI and Medicare who depend on it right....? Not every old person is a "Boomer"... You sound pretty stupid.
Just exactly, how old are you?
This post was edited on 2/20/26 at 8:16 am
Posted on 2/20/26 at 8:13 am to TIGERHOLD
Would you be OK if I just got the money stolen from me back without interest?
I’d be OK with that
I’d be OK with that
Posted on 2/20/26 at 8:14 am to Hangover Haven
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Ah yes, lets throw our seniors out in the streets and let them die...
Posted on 2/20/26 at 8:15 am to Night Vision
Why do wormy tit sucking kids keep coming up with this crap? I paid into SS for 50 some odd years. This is not a social program, this is our f in money we paid into a savings account run by the gate. It wouldn't matter if I was a billionaire or destitute, it's my money put into my savings account. If you want to spout more nonsense, think about it before you do, ask your dad if it's okay, and go back to your room.
Posted on 2/20/26 at 8:16 am to APHA
Gonna be rough on the boomers finally realizing that their politicians have been using them for years and are now going to throw them out in the cold
Posted on 2/20/26 at 8:16 am to TIGERHOLD
This is a clickbait article. It plays to the fears of AI, the same could have been said about PC’s in the 1980’s.
It also doesn’t take into account the change in investment profiles for older Americans over the years. In the 1980’s and earlier, their wealth was primarily from savings and pensions. 401ks didn’t exist until 1978, and most people weren’t in the stock market (Vanguard was founded in 1975). The gains from investing in the stock market would obviously outpace a retiree’s wealth in the 1980’s.
On top of this, retirees in the 1980’s not only had Medicare, many also had secondary insurance as part of their retirement package. From a healthcare coverage perspective , those folks had it much better.
The problem has been mismanagement and cowardice from Congress. George Bush provided a solution in the early 2000’s, Congress didn’t have the balls to implement it.
It also doesn’t take into account the change in investment profiles for older Americans over the years. In the 1980’s and earlier, their wealth was primarily from savings and pensions. 401ks didn’t exist until 1978, and most people weren’t in the stock market (Vanguard was founded in 1975). The gains from investing in the stock market would obviously outpace a retiree’s wealth in the 1980’s.
On top of this, retirees in the 1980’s not only had Medicare, many also had secondary insurance as part of their retirement package. From a healthcare coverage perspective , those folks had it much better.
The problem has been mismanagement and cowardice from Congress. George Bush provided a solution in the early 2000’s, Congress didn’t have the balls to implement it.
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