Hawley, another RINO who has been in The Swamp for far too long. Means testing is a Valid mechanism for any Federal Gov’t social expenditure. If you are wealthy why on earth do you need a couple of grand from the Feds every month?
Another factor is the current life expectancy today versus that when SS was first implemented. People are living much longer today. Raising the age to compensate seems to me to be a commonsense answer to this issue.
Lastly, no one should ever rely on the gov’t for a damned thing. We have a Lifetime to plan. Use that time and plan for your old age. Never expect others to bail you out for your lack of planning. Ever.
Social Security Disability Insurance needs to be reigned in. I personally know several people who have milked it for years, in some cases decades.
In one case, an ex son-in-law for 30 plus years, collecting SSDI while working “off the books” ripping off SSDI and the IRS. Of course I reported him, including details and nothing happened. I really don’t believe those agencies give a big rat’s a$$.
Leverage Deficit Increase to close the border, Indict Meritless Garland and the DOJ, and End the Fed.
Just go for defunding the DOJ, Foggy Bottom and the DHS.
It’s a start.
Deflection...wrong areas
* Dept. Ed
* Dept Offense
* State Dept
* Congress Aides
* Swamp Agencies
Etc.,
Interesting that we have money for medical benefits to give to millions of “refugees” surging across the border...One video today showed 850 in an hour!
Yet, we don’t have money for Social Security and Medicare which employees and employers contributed to for a lifetime?!
Not to mention the Billions given to Ukraine, transgender surgeries, etc...
Cut Medicaid before you cut Medicare or Social Security.
A few different issues that need to be addressed separately.
Raising the retirement age? To what? death? Simple math says that not everyone can make it to management. It's not like there's one manager per hands on worker. Is that old auto mechanic, carpenter, plumber etc supposed to do that into their late 70s?
Disability is a major problem with a lot of people on it who shouldn't be. Problem is, there are a whole lot of families that barely make it on one person's minimum wage job plus one person's disability. There's not enough jobs to go around in flyover country and the cruel irony is that the only places to shop for household goods are Dollar General and Walmart where you can buy crap made in China which is why there isn't enough jobs in the US.
Long before any of this is addressed, there are a great many things that the US spends money on that should be cut first. Every time a spending bill is passed, the dems put all sorts of stupid pet projects in there. We've all heard of the many stupid studies that get funded. Then there's the downright dangerous studies like say, bat viruses.
I say trim some fat off of fedgov spending before hitting mostly poor people. We must be pushing a trillion dollars spent on Ukraine. How should we pay for that? Let's make that welder keep welding until he's 78 years old even though the average age of death is 73.
Why are they even talking about this right before an election? We’re funding woke training in the military and want to talk about this?
Ask the head turtle what his plans are Josh! You voted for him......
First off, this is Politico. They asked a question like Republicans are working to use SS and Medicare as leverage. They never mention who supports this so I don’t believe the Repubs are doing this. It is fear mongering right before an election.
Democrats have been using Social Security and Medicare as a lure with a magic cure to help them from the day they came into existence while we have paid taxes to do so but they keep picking it’s pockets.