Almost half of Generation Z adults said they don’t expect to get any of the Social Security benefits they’ve earned, according to a survey. In a survey released Tuesday by the Nationwide Ret…
Boomers have been saying this since the 60s and continue to say it even as they cash their latest round of checks.
Social Security is crazy popular. Even marginal trimming around the edges is politically suicidal. The only way to end the program is for Congress to shut down the agency and end the distributions. That’s not going to happen so long as elections are even remotely contestable. Its the third rail of politics for a reason.
I would predict a military dictatorship before I’d predict an end to SS. One is practically a prerequisite for the other, and even then it would be dicey.
The elected officials who have to choose between tapping into the general fund and telling 70M people they don’t get a full SS disbursement is going to be in a tight spot. Especially when we’re just shitting money over the wall to a dozen ongoing military disasters.
Gen X has been saying this since the 80s, nobody listened.
Boomers have been saying this since the 60s and continue to say it even as they cash their latest round of checks.
Social Security is crazy popular. Even marginal trimming around the edges is politically suicidal. The only way to end the program is for Congress to shut down the agency and end the distributions. That’s not going to happen so long as elections are even remotely contestable. Its the third rail of politics for a reason.
I would predict a military dictatorship before I’d predict an end to SS. One is practically a prerequisite for the other, and even then it would be dicey.
It doesn’t have to end as a formal killed program.
It just has to continue unchanged, as an UNFUNDED mandate.
The elected officials who have to choose between tapping into the general fund and telling 70M people they don’t get a full SS disbursement is going to be in a tight spot. Especially when we’re just shitting money over the wall to a dozen ongoing military disasters.
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Boomers waging a protracted people’s war from their winter homes in the everglades
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Who?