Day two of our 72 hr stop work.
The Signal chat with the “leaders” of tRump’s admin threatens American lives and are now unnecessarily in danger: who knows what else the clowns have discussed our enemies know about. THIS. IS. WHY. WE. MUST. REMOVE. THE. 💩🍊🤡 FROM. OUR. WHITEHOUSE!
WORK STOP!
Every taxpayer would have standing to file a class action lawsuit. The People v Trump. If we win, we redistribute the wealth and leave Trump and his cronies with nothing. One can only dream.
Most of us will have used up our Social Security benefit contributions (including employers 6.2%) by the time we are 80 if we retired at full retirement. I am on SocSec and I can see this! Why can't our legislators.
Always love how they say "entitlement" like it's an unearned bad thing and not something we're ENTITLED TO because it's literally (a fraction of) our money
I've grown tired of proving that SS is by all metrics, an entitlement. Something to which we have a right to claim. Literally the very definition of the word. People get lazy intellectually and conflate that with "sense of entitlement" - two vastly different things
Your last statement answers itself. The standard and the legal definition of entitlement is to have an established and legal right to a thing - in this case, reimbursement of that which you paid in to create.
Removing the caps for Social Security will immediately put Social Security in the green for current & future benefits.
Who came up with the income caps for Social Security, taxes should not be capped either. If we stop capping things our country will have no deficits, the poor will not have to beg
If they’d like to cut me a check for every goddamned dollar they’ve taken for 30 years plus interest then fine. They owe me 7k just for 2024. They don’t have a just couple few bucks of mine. 30 years plus interest? That’s not nothing.
Yeah, so I did the math on that. People put away 12.5% per year for about 40 yrs into social security. About 5 yrs of earning total. Interest makes that go up but so does cost living - kinda evens out.
People tend to draw on SS for about 40 yrs (including survivor benefits) which is 8x more than what they put in. That is where the problem is coming from.
Social Security is the greatest idea our country has come up with but the social burden rate is unsustainable. We will not be able to grow any investment fund at all with a social burden rate with less than 3 earners per beneficiary.
When Congress creates a law that MAKES ME pay for my retirement or healthcare, they have unilaterally created a contract with me. I AM “entitled” to have them live up to that contract. It’s a simple contracts case! If they breach, they’re liable.
Yeah, almost like it would be better to have the money they take be put into a retirement account you own instead of just into the black hole that is government
Cupidity beyond comprehension. Elon said he’d be totally screwed if Trump didn’t win—implying he did something illegal and would be going to jail without a Trump victory. He and Trump often talk about how this person or that person should be in jail. A crook always thinks they’re being robbed.
The malice can be explained by downsizings and cuttings across govt. Defund, shut down, and divert as much government funding to their private control. Techbro fascism is his new venture. Musk, Vance, and the Yarvin enthusiasts they’ve placed into positions have big plans. https://youtu.be/VeVhHNSe9Ks?...
I log in and check my next month's payment schedule.
It scares me when it sends me to the wrong pages...
I did get in eventually and it's still okay. So far...
If they continue to mess with S.S., Medicare, Medicaid, and Veterans benefits, I think the country will rise up. DUMP showed us how to do it. Except, we will be peaceful.
Earned benefits is what your employer might give you as part of a compensation for your work. This is not that. In FACT, entitlement is the exact word to correctly use.
You had to tell me that? I was already depressed. (Totally not anyone’s fault but mine.I had a chance to leave, but I’m apparently a masochist.)
I was so proud of myself when I got through the paperwork to draw MY Social Security. I never really expected to live this long.
Why does that part keep getting forgotten in the conversation?! 😡 Social security is an annuity you spend your entire working life contributing to. They don’t get to play around with OUR damn money! 💵
Based on total 2023 Social Security benefit payouts of $1.38 trillion, and using the relatively conservative S&P 500 average profit margin of 12% as a baseline, privatization could generate a profit of $165 billion, or an average profit per beneficiary of $2,466.
they see a pile of money and the covet it. Who they harm in the process is irrelevant to them. They have no empathy. They will steal it as they have professed openly to do. It is threatening homelessness and even death, thus an assault on beneficiaries. Impeach now!!
During the Black Lives Matter protests, Trump asked General Milley to have the military "shoot the protesters in the legs." Can you imagine what he's going to do now, without anyone reigning him in? If soc sec ends, people are going to riot, and he'll send out the military. Kick him out!
And you don’t realize that you will have to live over 20 years past retirement to even get close to what you paid in. Wouldn’t it be better to have an actual retirement fund that you owned?
Yes, but we have allowed criminals to take power. They purposely allow the killing innocent men, women and children so they can build condos and financial portfolios. They spend our money for policing and surveillance "of us." I suspect they would snort our social security $ without care. imo
What happens if Trump & Muskrat decide to purge unverified Social Security recipients from the rolls if they haven't "verified" their identities by March 31?
We have some 70 million Social Security recipients out here under a 2-week deadline that ends Monday!
"Boeing has a long history of penalties related to fraud, waste, and abuse on the US Government.
The totality of the abuse and penalties was in the tens of billions of dollars. One case involved billing $10,000 for a part when the actual price was under $100."
And yet we the people have absolutely no power to fix our government. Why don’t we have a petition or something passed around to remove the joke of a government we have nose for the people by the people
And they shouldn't get to "just keep" the money my dearly departed husband paid in but never got a chance to use. His money, with interest should be paid to his estate.
GOP has always seen Social Security as bad. As a party they have consistently viewed poverty as a just punishment for not being rich. That’s why they demonize the homeless. It’s that whole ‘God must not like you’ mindset.
Ketamine Elmo and The Mad Mango's regime needs to keep their greedy, little hands off it. The US government can also pay back the trillions they've taken from it since the Reagan administration, repeal the cap on income and tax the wealthy what they should be paying.
They aren't trying to end it. They're trying to privatize it first. Then when that collapses it's the end. The rich pay nothing(taxes) and lose nothing $$$$
The money has been stolen from us by the government. Now we want to ask the government to steal from younger generations to give us back the money they stole from us. Where does this cycle end?
Social Security represents our state-sanctioned collective investment—offering security in both retirement and emergencies, with a guaranteed positive return. It stepped in to fill the gap left by religions and their charities, ensuring a safety net for all.
It’s not even a benefit because you paid for it over 50 years of working it’s your money. Using the word benefit could make it sound like it was given when it’s absolutely not. They are just giving you your money back that you paid in.
“May the Declaration of Independence be to the world what I believe it to be, a signal to arouse men. Calling them to burst from their chains under which monkish ignorance & superstition have persuaded them to bind themselves, & assume the blessings & security of self-government.” Thomas Jefferson
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#HandsOffMyMoney
The Signal chat with the “leaders” of tRump’s admin threatens American lives and are now unnecessarily in danger: who knows what else the clowns have discussed our enemies know about. THIS. IS. WHY. WE. MUST. REMOVE. THE. 💩🍊🤡 FROM. OUR. WHITEHOUSE!
WORK STOP!
Cut the military.
Cut the cops.
Cut homeland security.
Abolish ICE.
Save Social Security now!
Who came up with the income caps for Social Security, taxes should not be capped either. If we stop capping things our country will have no deficits, the poor will not have to beg
F MAGAts and the Russian they rode in on.
https://youtu.be/VeVhHNSe9Ks?...
It scares me when it sends me to the wrong pages...
I did get in eventually and it's still okay. So far...
I was so proud of myself when I got through the paperwork to draw MY Social Security. I never really expected to live this long.
https://bsky.app/profile/stargazer-elite.bsky.social/post/3lla7m6cwtk2j
What happens if Trump & Muskrat decide to purge unverified Social Security recipients from the rolls if they haven't "verified" their identities by March 31?
We have some 70 million Social Security recipients out here under a 2-week deadline that ends Monday!
"Boeing has a long history of penalties related to fraud, waste, and abuse on the US Government.
The totality of the abuse and penalties was in the tens of billions of dollars. One case involved billing $10,000 for a part when the actual price was under $100."
#EatTheRich
Tax the rich
Like it's 1946
They'd beat us out of it forever before they didn't give it back.