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A Boring Dystopia

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

They spend more as they get in, it will run out. No amount of tomfoolery will change that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

They've been saying that my entire life, my dad's entire life, and when my dad was my age, my grandfather would tell him he's heard the same things his entire life going back to the 40s.

For a couple decades the disingenuous doom -and-gloomers told us no way could social security ever deal with the baby boomers. All through the 80s and 90s they told us we might as well privatize it or kill it all together. The only time wall street shut up about it was when they were too busy jerking off to the thought of getting their hands on that money. Well, the youngest of the boomers turn 60 in '24, they're almost all in and the end times keep getting pushed back, from the 80s to the 90s to the 00s to the 10s to the 20s and now 2035. It's like a doomsday cult that keeps pushing the date when the apocalypse doesn't arrive at the appointed time.

You'll have to excuse me for not getting worked up over the 40th new year I've heard for the sky falling.

And for what it's worth, managing the COLAs, the cap, the percentages, and anything else the SSA has done throughout it's existence isn't "tomfoolery," it's accounting. And damn good accounting so far. The SSA being such a well run government institution probably makes republicans hate them almost as much as the tax itself.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 years ago

Sure upto now it's been fine...

But a WHOLE LOT of new people will be getting check soon..

And military and debt spending are through the roof And the normal people are paying groceries and rent with their credit card...

I'm. Sure they'll solve it tho, last minute.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)
  1. No.

  2. "Tomfoolery"? Step away from the idiot box, gramps.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 years ago

Sure granny, go believe them,I'm sure those 2 trillion arnt in some loss leading 1% government bonds