Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Sadly the benefits of social security aren't worth it for most of us. You get $1-4K a year but how much did you pay in over your lifetime to get 10-20 years of benefits. For medicare, you pay premiums all your life from your payroll taxes to when you actually take it. Not worth it.
What? No. Most Americans get more from SS and Medicare then they paid in.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:They definitely going to crush medicaid-- they need $5 trillion to pay for their tax cuts for the wealthy and while they won't find all of that they need to find enough to keep the bond markets happy or they will see crazy high interest rates, like the UK when they had Liz Truss trying to do supply side economics.
Probably they will try to get a trillion out of Medicaid and another $500 billion out of medicare, making it less and less useful to anyone.
Do people think they will just try to roll back expansion Medicaid? I don't think they can touch Medicaid for individuals on SSI/SSDI/elderly. Not sure about children's coverage
Anonymous wrote:I'm near retirement. Cut my SS so I don't get as much as I put in to give Bezos a tax cut and I'm out in the streets with a baseball bat. To the Republicans who pull this crap, FU. Maybe the American people will finally wake up, though I doubt it.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:As a millennial I'd like to make ss optional so I can stop paying and cash out
"cash out"? It's a pay as you go system-- the most you can do is destroy the social safety net for seniors by ending social security but you are never getting your contributions back.
Don't be a tool and let the right wing propaganda tell you the money isn't there for social security-- it's only not there if they steal it for other things, like tax cuts for the wealthy.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I'm near retirement. Cut my SS so I don't get as much as I put in to give Bezos a tax cut and I'm out in the streets with a baseball bat. To the Republicans who pull this crap, FU. Maybe the American people will finally wake up, though I doubt it.
No one cares about your baseball bat. We already had Rodney King Occupy Wall St and Georgie Floyd.
The current leader of the US government has been wearing t-shirt mocking Occupy Wall St for years.
Anonymous wrote:I'm near retirement. Cut my SS so I don't get as much as I put in to give Bezos a tax cut and I'm out in the streets with a baseball bat. To the Republicans who pull this crap, FU. Maybe the American people will finally wake up, though I doubt it.
Anonymous wrote:Sadly the benefits of social security aren't worth it for most of us. You get $1-4K a year but how much did you pay in over your lifetime to get 10-20 years of benefits. For medicare, you pay premiums all your life from your payroll taxes to when you actually take it. Not worth it.
Anonymous wrote:They definitely going to crush medicaid-- they need $5 trillion to pay for their tax cuts for the wealthy and while they won't find all of that they need to find enough to keep the bond markets happy or they will see crazy high interest rates, like the UK when they had Liz Truss trying to do supply side economics.
Probably they will try to get a trillion out of Medicaid and another $500 billion out of medicare, making it less and less useful to anyone.
Anonymous wrote:Sadly the benefits of social security aren't worth it for most of us. You get $1-4K a year but how much did you pay in over your lifetime to get 10-20 years of benefits. For medicare, you pay premiums all your life from your payroll taxes to when you actually take it. Not worth it.