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In reply to the discussion: Once again, Obama offers to cut Social Security [View all]TheKentuckian
(25,026 posts)Nothing is fed back in to benefit the hardest hit in the system, even accounting for kicking down some crumbs on an adjustment to provide cover for taking money OUT OF THE SYSTEM.
No matter how it is spun and what shiny objects are pointed at or how many promises to help the most at risk.
No matter what the money is coming out of the program, it is a rearranging of the deck chairs justified by a little extra for the very worse off in a hostage taking emotional jack move (why do you wanna screw over the super poor?) To draw down the overall buying power of the overall benefit. Many if not most seniors are struggling now, how tough a row will we all have to hoe over the decades as we are whittled away at on the wings of a provision to screw the most destitute as much, kinda?
Now this is the critical point to get the context of the magnitude of the pile being sold on this shit...The same folks that are pulling the scheme off will tell you the program doesn't have enough money and then again on yet another hand sold a "holiday" on a portion of the revenue stream.
This is all full on, no fucking bones bullshit. It is a slow poison to devalue the program over time to either kill it or make it a mockery. You know, a slush fund for the ruling class but little to lean on for us "small people" unless the most destitute somehow live long enough to get you know...what they might get Prue-scam (aka next to nothing) instead of a cut (that they probably have to suck up for a while).
This really, really comes off the rails when the exact same rationale was presented the last time when they raised the retirement age, increased our pay in, and raised the cap.
More left for our less fortunate my ass! What phony nonsense.