R's Plan To Cut Social Security [in addition to Medicare and SSI] — Will Voters Let Them?
@Bliss That will all but do me in. I have degenerative disc disease in my cervical and lumbar spine from years of hard work. You know what gets my goat? Do they realize that they are going to have to deal with mom dad grandma grandpa brother or sister children who are ill and or have progressive issues? They really haven’t thought this through.
@BarnabasCollins They have. Its been on their platform for years. During the Reagan years they began finding ways to cause Social Security to become insolvent, 1st by not increasing contributions, next by letting at will work states legislate the elimination of those contributions. What we have now is: a medicare in which nearly 1/3 of workforce doesn't contribute to it at all or enough, means that unless they have some form of 401K they will be unable to support themselves when they reach 70.
@Bliss Yes I remember reading about and hearing my parents say that government predictions for SS to be gone by 2030 or somewhere around that time. And I know for a fact that both parties thought the years has taken $ from the coffers and never paid it back. The rich get richer.
I hope Karma catches up with these legislators.
@Bliss I don’t think much will come of it. People in the government who knew about the others usually have something hanging over their heads so they don’t do anything. There is so much evidence, in my opinion, to use article 14 and or outright fully prosecute TFG. But will it happen? I doubt it.