Even as 401K's are taking yet another nose-dive, the Social Security payment hold their own. The GOP Congress, and their oligarch funders, just can't handle that.

For generations, that party yearned to dip into our savings and rob us of the most reliable investment that we (and our employers) made (make) each and every day we've worked. They're dedicated to undermine that program even now. Let's prepare to unseat these looters in 2026.

Just can't stand there being a pot of public money they don't control...

Yes, anything that is for the good of many, DOGE will destroy, just to get to Mars. I hope he does and gets stranded.

Hands off our $$$

We're not going to be able to fix the economy and that's when social security gets drained

It’s also the only one your employer is forced to contribute to

Its currently under attack

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I am paying attention to the slimy Bastards.

GET UP AND FIGHT THIS ROBBERY ATTEMPT BY THE RICH. PEOPLE PAID INTO THESE ACCOUNTS. CALL EVERY DAMNED POLITICIAN YOU CAN. GET IN THE STREETS.MAKE THEM SEE YOU.

We are alarmed!

That's because they want to put their slimey paws on it and steal it.

Social Security is not an “investment”. It’s a direct-transfer government program in which current workers pay the retirement benefits of current retirees. No one has an accrued balance.

It is an insurance program invested in interest bearing Treasury notes.

Republicunts have been trying to get rid of it for a long time . Funny how the most entitled douchbags in the country want to get rid of what they call " entitlement programs" . Bunch of fascist pieces of white trash. The only thing worse then them are the mouth breathing f@#ktards that support em.

Of course, Wall Street wants to “privatize” it - With the usual and customary “management fees”

I am!

The worst thing that could happen is if Trump and the GOP convince voters to invest Social Security in the stock market. We would see our money vanish quickly

Impeach them all. Gross incompetence and unconstitutional

It's not an investment. It's a government statement of intent. And can be altered at will, like other government programs are being altered/cancelled.

It can be altered by Congress FIFY

Yeah we’ll see how that will go over with every single working American who has contributed to it their entire working life. Think France 1793. It is a hugely popular and successful program.

Math: 2033 the gov't will need to make a choice of raising taxes or cutting benefits. 2030 when the choice is made, ~136 million people will be 'paying taxes'; while ~109.2 million are 'receiving benefits'. What do you think will ? www.ssa.gov/oact/TRSUM/ www.populationpyramid.net/united-state...

France 1793.

Do you really think people on this service don't know about Social Security or need to be told "wake up?" I'm really tired of people shouting wake up, wake up, wake up and saying what I've known for YEARS. Are YOU just waking up? Just now realizing this? Sounds like it.

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I mean it kind of does a little bit from inflation. Over time it’s been adding up like crazy.

I’d like to apply, not during this regime.

Except we are losing the income of immigrants that help support SS

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My SSI buying power lost considerably due to 4 yrs of Bidenflation

Reminder: The US enjoyed half the rate of global inflation under Biden's booming economy.

Can we still trust FDIC?

Exactly!

Republicans have "borrowed" from Social Security in the past. A loan they never repaid.

The loan is being paid back. Currently, Social Security is taking in less money than it's giving out. The extra money it's paying out is coming from funds loaned to the government (by buying Treasury bonds). All is good for now. In the long run, revenues must be increased; but that's an easy fix.

He wants it, badly. We will stop him, madly.

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I could never understand why. It isn't even the government money.

It's hard to get as negative value as our stolen SSA Dept data et al, amirite y'all? @altssa.altgov.info

Accurate

This administration is petitioning industry for more deregulation, gutting protections in the process. Let's use their portal instead to demand fairness and safety. At www.submitrelentlessly.org there are submissions already prepared that need only be copied into this government webform. Flood them!

It should grow in the market till your 50, then switch to bonds. You'd end up with double the social security checks

No, they don't. All Democrats have is dishonest fear-mongering.

Close your eyes democrats-budget.house.gov/news/press-r...

Because the democrats-budget.house.gov website is super reliable. Sure. If you're not willing to have an honest discussion about SS, then neither am I.

Typical

Social security is a Ponzi scheme. It always was and besides, the Dems with the pubes consent started raiding it decades ago.

Truth.

#fakenews a la elmo

Please explain why it is a Ponzi scheme. I want to understand this

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They want to confiscate it for themselves. #AuditIncelNAZIElmo #DefundIncelNAZIElmo #DeportIncelNAZIElmo #JailtheOrangePustuleinCECOT #$ubprimeCourtReformsNOW

Anything that works right they want to tear down. Anything that seems perfect, they seek to destroy. Don't let them blindside you. It's all show. Why? While we were trying to preserve what works, they're busy installing their dictator with NO CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS! SAVE THEM before it's too late

We Stand Together to protect SS!!

Stay awake and aware.

For those of us who have no investments, losing SS will put us on the streets

Because they want to rob us!

Hence the reason they are against woke, they want folk slumbering so they can continue their heist

Technically, it isn't really an investment. It is insurance against complete destitution in old age or if you become disabled. The FICA deductions in your paycheck(s) have paid the premiums your entire life, and Trump wants to steal the benefits you have paid for.

Yes. And Never offers a replacement alternative. Come to think of it what has he ever done for anyone not in the oligarchy class? Can’t think of one thing he has given. Only what he continues to take away.

Trump and Musk-rat only want to see themselves making out in life, not others retiring on Social Security! 😠

They want you to lose and they want your loss to be their gain.

Despicable!

Now SNAP too? They’re destroying our once great nation.

They don't want to get rid of Social Security. They just want to invest it with their friends.

My check arrived a few days later than usual.

It is our money, call your congress person and remind them of this fact. If he votes yes on DUMP budget, vote them out.

The Social Security Trust actually made money today The Republicans barrow from this Trust to pay for their tax cuts and they pay interest on the money they borrow. What they want is the entire Trust to use as they want without paying interest

When private equity and corporate raiders took over companies, the first thing they did was clean out the pandion funds. Then left the empty husk of a company to whither and die. These are the same people raiding the Social Security funds, plus a few throw back anti-socialism hardliner billionaires.

Possibly “they”intend to decrease the eligibility pool by eliminating the sick, diseased, older citizens —and whomever they determine will not be of use to them? They are thinning the herd. This is dark, hard to accept yet we are seeing it. And our inaction enables destruction. Pay attention.

Or perchance, they shall adjust the mechanism of distribution, diminishing the portions granted to those of great wealth, who stand not in need of such support. This, I deem, the more probable course.

I truly hope you are correct and it will end up a real-distribution.

Not get rid of. They want to sell it to Wall Street and when the stock market makes millions, Wall Street makes millions. And when the stock market drops, our benefits drop, and Wall Street makes millions.

HANDS OFF SOCIAL SECURITY

More misinformation from the violent political party.

Oligarch pocket liner. Better than coins, bibles, tennis shoes, oh you know the grift.

The SS agency and VA were the most efficiently run organizations in the government until the Orange Buffoon and President Musk came around! pnhp.org/news/who-is-.... isr.umich.edu/news-events/...

As a veteran active in the VA and several veterans organizations for more than 10 years and with family dealing with the VA for more than 50 years over 3 generations, I contend that efficiency and VA should not he mentioned in the same same sentence. I doubt social security is any better.

Sadly, with current governance, the alternative to Veterans Administration inefficiency is NOT more efficiency but rather elimination. Then Vets would be really screwed.

Read my references. I will admit that in certain area the VA may be lacking, but in MT and WY, the care I and my vet friends and family receive has been top notch. I currently use Tricare and am totally satisfied.

Unfortunately, that says more about American healthcare in general than the VA. It suffers from the same as any other American institution - it spends tons of money on paying private contractors. Currently over 70% of the VA's healthcare budget goes to private contractors, including doctors.

100%. It's absolutely absurd. I see both sides of it, though. Gov regulations and inefficiencies make the job orders of magnitude more expensive so these contractors bid 40%-60% higher for gov contracts than they do private contracts. They have to or they'll go bankrupt.

They pay union scale (Davis-Bacon) wages. I know many people hate the idea of people earning more than minimum wage.

I really don't think anyone hates the idea of anyone making more than minimum wage. The argument they make is that if you have minimal skills, a minimal work ethic, and minimal drive to accomplish more, you're probably going to make minimum wage. I think that's fair.

I worked for a plumbing contractor who would bid and get Davis-Bacon contracts. He’d keep the extra money for himself. We had to file complaints to get the wages we were due. With the exception of me, an apprentice, the rest were licensed plumbers. Hardly minimally skilled workers.

Yeah, I don't think anyone at all thinks that they should be making minimum wage. Definitely a critical skill.

Yet, how many people have complained about fast food workers asking for a living wage? I know too many union workers who take their checks to anti-union businesses to save a buck and complain that their taxes are subsidizing the poor!

I know gov contractors who've had to pay construction crews to sit around doing nothing for 3 weeks just waiting on a few signatures and an inspection from the gov. In the private sector, they almost never have to do that sort of thing. The gov is careless with our tax dollars

On big contracts, many workers come from out of state. If there are a lot of jobs available, that gov’t contractor might have to keep the workers on the payroll so they don’t leave.

Exactly. That's why its such a big deal and so costly when government practices are inefficient leading to significant down time like this. This why contractors bid so much higher on gov contracts than on private contracts

Say it. Not they, the Republicans

Oh I thought you meant CANADIAN DOLLARS lol

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They'll go after medicare and medicaid first. Then they'll go after social seecurity. These MF's have a plan.

To what? Is this joke?

It's the one that Republicans and Trump are trying to steal, the word here is steal. They are stealing from the poor, sick and old. That's how low the Republicans are. When a farmer gets fat he always votes in a Republican, greedy bastards at best.

If you notice, they’re not getting rid of social security. Just who’s on it. DOGE has that info now. I hope I’m wrong.

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Please everyone!

In 1983 about $2.7 trillion was borrowed and "invested" in special issue treasury securities. Pay it back and it will be solvent for many decades

Well, I hope they remember there are folks in their own families who saved 50+ years who receive SS retirement. WE had money deducted from OUR paychecks to receive OUR RETIREMENT SAVINGS. There will be a lot of angry Americans!!!!

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What are they going to take money from then?

They don't want to "get rid" of it. They want to loot it for themselves.

They want to Privatize it

Didn’t Elon redirect all the payments to his pockets

Social Security is an earned benefit. It is a financial contract entered into between any taxpayer and the US government. Individuals paid into the fund and would have to qualify for benefits. Nowhere does it say it is an entitlement.

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Well it lost much more when Congress borrowed from it and hasn’t repaid that money. Repay the money you borrowed from us.

What do you want them to do? Stuff the money in mattresses? Social Security buys Treasury Bonds with excess income so it gets some interest. The Treasury Bonds are loans to the government, but they must be paid back according to the Constitution (yes, that's right). The money is not gone.

They don’t want to get rid of it. They want to appropriate the funds. Almost $3 trillion.

If ss goes away many will die. Probably more rich politicians than old folks.

👍 I’ve been woke since before people even knew what woke was.

The only thing I have heard the administration say about SS is making it tax free.

House Republicans want to raise early retirement to age 69 from 62 today.

I am over 62 and wouldn’t dream of retiring

They don’t want to ‘get rid of it’, they want it to fail so they can privatize it and make a shit load of money off it.

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Bravo🏆 to Senator Murphy who’s showed an admirable earnestness,currently need. With his stewardship & ability to discern for USA.

If they get rid of it, I want all the money I paid into it back. I know it's taking care of someone right now, but clearly, that doesn't matter😒😒

The ONLY time it has ever lost money was when Congress “borrowed” from it and an IOU! I say those of us that are participants of the Social Security System, Call that IOU, being that we are only 'real' legitimate payers and payees of the Social Security system I say we Sue

It's important for everyone to take a stand on this issue.

Because they want more money for the furnace.

Eliminate the FICA cap to protect and preserve SS

Been saying it for years. Cut the cap.

YES! I have found intelligent life in a discussion of Social Security! You made my day!

not get rid of, steal is the word

Those with ulterior motives manipulate.

Smfh this app is a conglomerate of the most mentally unstable people on Earth. Nobody has ever attempted to take peoples Social Security. Nobody ever will. You know what will take your Social Security? The dems reckless debasement of our currency. It won't be solvent we keep adding debt

That's just part of the distraction, they're trying to cut 880 billion from Medicaid right now

I really hope people aren't stupid enough to allow them to take away the social security they've been paying into all their lives🤡🤡🤡🤡

Stand up and fight for YOUR MONEY !!!!

Every time they say the phrase "we won't touch" be aware, that THAT is the thing they're trying to cut.