Great job there Americans and a special shout out to White gen-X’ers for cutting your own soon to be retirement.
“We’re going to have to have some hard decisions. We got to bring the Democrats in to talk about Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare. There’s hundreds of billions of dollars to be saved, and we know how to do it, we just have to have the stomach to actually take those challenges on,”
Or, hear me out… stop letting private healthcare and the pharmaceutical industry charge insane prices?
Those are like three of our nations most successful programs.
Also, hundreds of billions is like a couple of aircraft carriers and a stealth bomber.
It’s not even that.
If you buy any of those you buy the upkeep and maintenance costs as well and for even a single last Gen plane that can cost well into a the hundreds of millions and potentially billions if it has the service life of something like a b52 or the speciality of a stealth craft.
Trump supporters in a couple of years: “He’s not hurting the people he needs to be”
They’ll say it not knowing, or believing, conservatives are hurting the people they see the need to hurt which are 90-something percent of people in this country.
Really love how it’s the cash strapped programs that gotta face the tough times while the richest CEOs and businesses are finally getting “relief” from their burdensome taxes.
Only if Republicans convince 7 Democratic Senators to help them reach the 60 needed to gut Social Security.
Which won’t happen.
You are referring to “reconciliation”, which cannot be filibustered.
Reconciliation can be used for the regular budget, but changes to Social Security are explicitly prohibited.
but changes to Social Security are explicitly prohibited
Unless you ignore the parliamentarian. Which the GOP would never do.
Oh good, there’s a rule in place to stop republicans. I can now rest easy.
There should be no tough choices here, it should only be about removing that stupid cap.
Notwithstanding but it’s really damn stupid that my middle class ass stops paying into social security before the end of the year while the working class subsidizes me.
While I agree the cap needs to be removed. The cap is only stopping you from subsidizing more of the working class. They are not subsidizing you. The payout is also capped. You’re effectively paying a portion of your contribution to boost the payout of multiple other people who contributed less during their careers
The way I see it, sure it’s called but I work a pretty good, white collar job, I’m going to statistically live longer than my blue collar peers drawing more over time and end of the day. I’m going to get a whole lot more out than the average blue collar worker and end result is that the working class is going and are subsidizing those rich people who are living longer putting that drain on resources.
That’s just the way i see it.
