Reminder - Social Security is *your* money. You pay into it so you can collect it later. If the government shuts it down on a whim, without paying you back, that is theft.
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More Perfect Union
BREAKING: Acting Social Security commissioner Leland Dudek says he is consulting with the Justice Department about shutting down the agency.
Dudek told the Washington Post: “Unless I get clarification, I’ll just start to shut it down. I don’t have much of a choice here.”
Dudek told the Washington Post: “Unless I get clarification, I’ll just start to shut it down. I don’t have much of a choice here.”
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The court order says they can't cooperate, so they are not DOGE affiliates.
You know, whatever bar these judges drink in must be doing a roaring trade. I'm tempted to go visit my own stash...just WATCHING this.
I'm past G&T and into "Do I have any of that moonshine left?" (A: Yes, but not much).
Way too much can be traced back to Reagan. (Though you can trace how Reagan got power back to Nixon, and how HE got power back to the founding fathers. Colonialism all the way through.)
If you like having videos on things, especially ones you can put on in the background, I'd reccomend the "Some More News" two parter on Reagan. I'd link but bsky is having trouble.
Republicans
Tragically, the legal specifics of the Social Security Act and follow-on legislation are likely to end up before the Supreme Court before the Trump Administration is over.
I really hope not, but a whole lot of the New Deal/Great Society could…
The promise: we pay them, then they pay us
I kept my part....
The minute they stop payments, they are toast in this nation.
Social Security is NOT a retirement account that you pay into and later withdraw from. It's a form of insurance. You pay premiums now; you receive benefits later, under particular circumstances.
More people need to understand this.
There have always been ding-dongs who've referred to it as a "Ponzi scheme," and it's no more true of Social Security than it is of whole life, which no one complains about.
There's a word for that and it's generally considered even worse than theft.
Lock him up!
https://bsky.app/profile/sarahposner.bsky.social/post/3lkvzwcjdw22x
I will end up losing all that I've tried to regain.
If they'll wait too long, remember what happened in my country 1933-1945.
However, removing that tax should create an irate citizenry with nothing left to lose.
It is stated everywhere.
So, part of it is a tax, but you will get a certain amount each month when you are old enough
But Congress can write and pass a new law.
It would be a terribly shitty thing to do, but they can do it without having to refund taxpayers what they’ve paid in SS tax.
https://bsky.app/profile/socialsecurityworks.org/post/3lkvt7hjrlk2h